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About Our Social Action Collection

See an overview of the Society's Social Action holdings.
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About the Freedom Summer Project Manuscripts

The Society owns one of the nation's richest collections of Civil Rights movement records, including more than 100 manuscript collections on Freedom Summer
Historical Essay

Highlander Folk School - Image Gallery Essay

View an extensive image collection about this early social leadership center that focused on labor organization, and later, civil rights.
Historical Essay

What Was the 1964 Freedom Summer Project?

Read an overview of this pivotal event in the nation's civil rights era
Historical Essay

Documenting the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party - Image Gallery Essay

View images produced by the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, while they were challenging a white, supremacist delegation.
Classroom Material

Teacher Materials for the 1964 Freedom Summer Project

Sourcebook, PowerPoint Presentation, Video
Help students learn about the civil rights era with resources designed for teaching about Freedom Summer. Access original source documents, images, video
General Information

Discover Who Participated in the Freedom Summer Project

Do you want to see if anyone from your state or community participated in the 1964 Freedom Summer Project? Search over 1,600 names.
Article

1964 Freedom Summer Project

Learn about the 1964 Freedom Summer Project with over 25,000 pages of digitized original documents.
Historical Essay

Documenting Life in the Segregated South - Image Gallery Essay

The Natchez Poverty Report
View this gallery of photographs from an unpublished 1960s report on living conditions in the African-American neighborhoods of Natchez, Mississippi.
Historical Essay

Bra Flag

Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story
Land of the Freed-up Woman American flag banner made from bras, 1971. (Museum object #2000.79.1)
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Timeline for the 1964 Freedom Summer Project

Follow the progression of key events before, during and after Freedom Summer. Contains links to original documents
Historical Essay

Wisconsin Women - About the Image Gallery

View the collection of images of Wisconsin women in a variety of activities: farm work, canning, suffragism, photography, war work and civil rights.
Historical Essay

Morality in America

Temperance, Abolition and Utopian Communities
Discovery how early Americans founded the abolition and temperance movements to help increase morality
General Information

Acquisitions and Collection Development

Library-Archives
Explore the wide range of subjects collected by the Wisconsin Historical Society Library-Archives.
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Key Documents from the 1964 Freedom Summer Project

Brief descriptions and links to original documents created by CORE, SNCC, COFO, local residents, volunteers and opponents. Organized by topic
Historical Essay

An Earth Day Gallery in Gaylord Nelson's Honor - Image Gallery Essay

Read about Earth Day's founder, Gaylord Nelson, a Wisconsin senator and early environmentalist.
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About the Division of Library, Archives and Museum Collections

This division collects, preserves and makes available materials about the history of Wisconsin, the United States and North America.

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