Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party political poster for Fannie Lou Hamer, 1964
View Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyCampaign posters for two Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party(MFDP) candidates, Aaron Henry and Fannie Lou Hamer.
Papers of Ella Baker, activist with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, 1959-1965
Baker, Ella, 1903-1986View Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyElla Baker was an executive with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference with close ties to the MDFP and several other civil rights groups. This folder consists of an assortment of SNCC and COFO…
Tribute to Ella Baker by Stokley Carmichael, audio recording, 1968
WBAI, Carmichael, Stokely, Brown, H. Rap, Zellner, Robert, Mulloy, Karen, Braden, Anne, Baker, Ella, 1903-1986, McKissick, Floyd B, Zinn, HowardView Full Item in Pacifica Radio ArchivesThe Southern Conference Education Fund (SCEF) annual dinner held in Louisville honored Ella Baker, who has worked for many years behind the scenes in the civil rights movement. Speakers Anne Braden, B…
Letter from Mary Fair Burks to Dr. Horace Bond regarding her employment termination as a result of participating in civil rights activities, 1960
Burks, Mary FairView Full Item in Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst LibrariesTranscripts of interviews with Ella Baker, Fannie Lou Hamer, Sandy Leigh, Annie Devine, and other civil rights movement leaders related to the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, 1966-1967
Romaine, AnneView Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyFor anyone interested in blow-by-blow descriptions of the political maneuvering at the Democratic National Convention in 1964, this is the folder to look at. In 1966 and 1967 Romaine interviewed many…
Letter from Carl and Anne Braden to W.E.B. Du Bois regarding their trial for sedition, 1954
Braden, Carl, 1914-1975, Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963, Braden, Anne, 1924-2006View Full Item in Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst LibrariesConcerning the Kentucky sedition case; asking Du Bois to speak at their trail and provide statements and objectives of the National Committee to Defend Dr. Du Bois, the Council on African Affairs, and…
Civil rights volunteers in Mississippi pose in front of Victoria Johnson Gray campaign poster, 1964
View Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyIn the summer of 1964, Freedom Summer volunteers pose in front of a campaign poster for Victoria Jackson Gray, Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party candidate for Congress representing the 5th District…
Victoria Gray campaign poster, 1964
View Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyCampaign poster for Victoria Gray. She ran against the policies of white segregationist Senator John Stennis in the 5th District. Along with Fannie Lou Hammer, Annie Devine, and Aaron Henry, she helpe…
Photograph of Doris Derby displaying dolls and other items made by the Poor People’s Corporation of Mississippi, 1969
View Full Item in UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research LibraryLIBERTY ITEMS--Doris Derby displays items made by the Poor People's Corp. of Mississippi, a cooperative which sets up workshops for the training of poor blacks. Its distribution arm is Liberty House.
Interview with Annie Devine about the Madison County, Mississippi movement
WGBH Educational Foundation, White, Frank, Devine, Annie, Myers, Maureen, King, RevView Full Item in WGBHThis is the third part of a documentary study on black power conducted over one month by Frank White, an Oxford Rhodes scholar. (In previous segments, White investigated black power in Harlem, Bedford…
Audio clip of Elaine Brown speaking at the United Front Against Fascism Conference called by the Black Panther Party
View Full Item in Pacifica Radio ArchivesElaine Brown reading a statement by Ericka Huggins of the Connecticut Black Panthers at the United Front Against Fascism conference called by the Black Panther Party. The statement was written from Ni…
