Maps, 1958-1961

This collection includes professional materials relating to Dr. Glascoe’s time with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)and various educational resources from 1958 through 1982. These materials include reports, research articles, workbooks, pamphlets, maps, and some notes from Dr. Glascoe herself. During her time in Mississippi, Dr. Glascoe was the director of West Helena’s Freedom School, a summer school dedicated to education about self-discovery and freedom. This collection highlights some of the materials that Dr. Glascoe used while directing the Freedom School to create a process where students, both adults and children, could develop confidence and realize their potential.

More specifically, this collection houses a multitude of reports and research papers relating to the work of SNCC in Mississippi and Arkansas, showing that Dr. Glascoe still kept up with the SNCC after her departure in 1967. These papers include a “Working Bibliography on Mississippi Race Relations” compiled by Jim Loewen, Tougaloo College, 1969; a concept paper by Tom Levin, “A Report on the Child Development Group of Mississippi”; a report by Alvin Poussaint, “The Negro American: His Self-Image and Integration”; and a SNCC Special Report, “The General Condition of the Arkansas Negro.”

This collection also includes some workbooks that Dr. Glascoe might have used during her time at the Freedom School, counting one workbook that her daughter, Mariama Glasco, completed when she was ten years old. These workbooks include “The Tougaloo Book” a coloring book put together by the Child Development Group of Mississippi and Project Head Start with drawings completed by children from the program; a “Political Handbook for Clay County” that outlines how citizens can register to vote; and “Negroes in American History: A Freedom Primer” that Mariama Glascoe seems to have completed when she was in sixth grade.

Dr. Glascoe also kept a few other publications pertaining to the topic of black politics and education in the South. These include an article from “The New Yorker,” August 29, 1964, issue; an issue of the magazine, “The Black Scholar,” Volume 7 Number 2; “Schools in Context: The Mississippi Idea,” a pamphlet by Howard Zinn; and an obituary from the funeral service of Amzie Moore, the man who brought SNCC into Mississippi.

Lastly, the collection also houses some maps of counties in Mississippi and some notes from Dr. Glascoe. The maps are of counties targeted by the SNCC during the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project, Phillips County and Monroe County. Dr. Glascoe’s notes are written on the back of a flyer for a pre-election rally from November 6, 1966, in West Helena, Arkansas where rally members discussed the upcoming election of 1966.