See an overview of the Society's Social Action holdings. |
The Society owns one of the nation's richest collections of Civil Rights movement records, including more than 100 manuscript collections on Freedom Summer |
View an extensive image collection about this early social leadership center that focused on labor organization, and later, civil rights. |
Read an overview of this pivotal event in the nation's civil rights era |
View images produced by the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, while they were challenging a white, supremacist delegation. |
Sourcebook, PowerPoint Presentation, Video |
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Help students learn about the civil rights era with resources designed for teaching about Freedom Summer. Access original source documents, images, video |
Do you want to see if anyone from your state or community participated in the 1964 Freedom Summer Project? Search over 1,600 names. |
Learn about the 1964 Freedom Summer Project with over 25,000 pages of digitized original documents. |
The Natchez Poverty Report |
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View this gallery of photographs from an unpublished 1960s report on living conditions in the African-American neighborhoods of Natchez, Mississippi. |
Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story |
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Land of the Freed-up Woman American flag banner made from bras, 1971. (Museum object #2000.79.1) |
Follow the progression of key events before, during and after Freedom Summer. Contains links to original documents |
View the collection of images of Wisconsin women in a variety of activities: farm work, canning, suffragism, photography, war work and civil rights. |
Temperance, Abolition and Utopian Communities |
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Discovery how early Americans founded the abolition and temperance movements to help increase morality |
Library-Archives |
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Explore the wide range of subjects collected by the Wisconsin Historical Society Library-Archives. |
Brief descriptions and links to original documents created by CORE, SNCC, COFO, local residents, volunteers and opponents. Organized by topic |
Read about Earth Day's founder, Gaylord Nelson, a Wisconsin senator and early environmentalist. |
This division collects, preserves and makes available materials about the history of Wisconsin, the United States and North America. |
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