History Detective Evidence Packets
Evidence Packets
Here are the materials to download for students for their history detective evidence packets. Depending on the number of students you have, you may need to create duplicate packets so that your students can work in groups of three to five.
Each packet has the same map and overall situation document. The remainder of the documents are particular to the location.
To enhance the experience for the students, it would be ideal to hand them their respective materials in folders marked Evidence Packets, Top Secret.
Evidence Packet: Laurel, Mississippi
Map, Mississippi Freedom Summer Projects
The Situation, Freedom Summer 1964
Photo of Gwen Robinson, SNCC project director in Laurel, MS
Mississippi Project Director_Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons, excerpt from Holsaert, et. al., Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2010)
SNCC WATS Line Digest, July 19-20, 1964
Mississippi Sovereignty Commission File SCR ID # 99-28-0-42-4-1-1
Letters from Mississippi, Laurel
Bill Peters, A Talk with Medgar Evers
Medgar Evers, Address to Mt. Heron Baptist Church
Evidence Packet: Canton, Mississippi
Map, Mississippi Freedom Summer Projects
The Situation, Freedom Summer 1964
SNCC Wats Line Digest, July 19-20, 1964
Letters from Mississippi, Canton
Bill Peters, A Talk with Medgar Evers
Medgar Evers, Address to Mt. Heron Baptist Church.
Medgar Evers, Monthly Report, 3.6.1963
Medgar Evers to Roy Wilkins & Reply 2.1.1957
Evidence Packet: Hattiesburg, Mississippi
Map, Mississippi Freedom Summer Projects
The Situation, Freedom Summer 1964
SNCC Wats Line Digest, July 19-20, 1964
Volunteer Jacob Blum hangs a sign on the front of Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, prior to a mass meeting during Freedom Summer, 1964.
Letters from Mississippi, Hattiesburg
Bill Peters, A Talk with Medgar Evers
Medgar Evers, Address to Mt. Heron Baptist Church
Medgar Evers, Annual Report 1957
Evidence Packet: McComb, Mississippi
Map, Mississippi Freedom Summer Projects
The Situation, Freedom Summer 1964
SNCC Wats Line Digest, July 19-20, 1964
Events of 1964 in McComb, Mississippi and surrounding area
Letters from Mississippi, McComb
Civil Rights Investigators Activity, 1964 in Amite county and Other Adjoining Counties Sovereignty Commission File SCR ID # 2-60-0-43-2-1-1
Peace and Freedom Party Campaign Button
Bill Peters, A Talk with Medgar Evers
Medgar Evers, Address to Mt. Heron Baptist Church