Box 2

This series is comprised of two items. The first is a 1964 Mississippi automobile license plate from Leflore County, likely from the car of a SNCC organizer. The second is a sweatshirt circa 1970 which says FREEDOM NOW. Masters helped sell such sweatshirts to raise money for civil rights activities

This series is comprised of two items. The first is a 1964 Mississippi automobile license plate from Leflore County, likely from the car of a SNCC organizer. The second is a sweatshirt circa 1970 which says FREEDOM NOW. Masters helped sell such sweatshirts to raise money for civil rights activities

Robert Masters graduated from Queens College in 1966; at age 20 he spent seven weeks in Greenwood, Mississippi as a volunteer in the Freedom Summer of 1964. The collection includes newspaper and magazine articles, color snapshots, letters in which Masters describes his work in Greenwood, and artifacts.