Images from the Civil Rights Era photographer’s new book, Mississippi Eyes
![Freedom School, Mileston. Mississippi Summer Project, 1964: Summer volunteers, SNCC workers and local students singing freedom songs at Mileston, a community of independent black farmers in the Mississippi Delta near Lexington.](https://paw.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/styles/portrait_feature/public/images/content/2110714.jpg?itok=tY94PiJ2)
Freedom School, Mileston. Mississippi Summer Project, 1964: Summer volunteers, SNCC workers and local students singing freedom songs at Mileston, a community of independent black farmers in the Mississippi Delta near Lexington.
![Freedom School, Mileston. Mississippi Summer Project, 1964: Edie Black, volunteer from Smith College, teaches freedom school at Mileston, a community of independent black farmers in the Mississippi Delta near Lexington.](https://paw.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/styles/portrait_feature/public/images/content/2110219.jpg?itok=8hb1Zwmq)
Freedom School, Mileston. Mississippi Summer Project, 1964: Edie Black, volunteer from Smith College, teaches freedom school at Mileston, a community of independent black farmers in the Mississippi Delta near Lexington.
Photos by Matt Herron ’53
![Freedom School, Mileston. Mississippi Summer Project, 1964: Edie Black, volunteer from Smith College, with students she teaches in a freedom school at Mileston, a community of independent black farmers in the Mississippi Delta near Lexington.](https://paw.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/styles/portrait_feature/public/images/content/2110212.jpg?itok=e5Tro0wu)
Freedom School, Mileston. Mississippi Summer Project, 1964: Edie Black, volunteer from Smith College, with students she teaches in a freedom school at Mileston, a community of independent black farmers in the Mississippi Delta near Lexington.
Photos by Matt Herron ’53
![Freedom Summer: living conditions, Mississippi summer of 1964: Local teenagers dancing to the jukebox at Beddingfield's store near Mileston. Foreground: Abe Osheroff and Jim Boebel, summer volunteers who were building the Mileston Community Center.](https://paw.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/styles/portrait_feature/public/images/content/0994708.jpg?itok=Q_CrJ1H6)
Freedom Summer: living conditions, Mississippi summer of 1964: Local teenagers dancing to the jukebox at Beddingfield's store near Mileston. Foreground: Abe Osheroff and Jim Boebel, summer volunteers who were building the Mileston Community Center.
Photos by Matt Herron ’53
![Community Center Construction, Freedom Summer 1964: Summer volunteer carpenter Jim Boebel and a local resident post a shotgun watch at the community center against a fire-bomb threat by local whites. Threats were common that summer and local men took tur](https://paw.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/styles/portrait_feature/public/images/content/0994624.jpg?itok=LRubn0WB)
Community Center Construction, Freedom Summer 1964: Summer volunteer carpenter Jim Boebel and a local resident post a shotgun watch at the community center against a fire-bomb threat by local whites. Threats were common that summer and local men took turns guarding the community every night.
Photos by Matt Herron ’53
![Valley View, Miss. Service at country church: St. Paul's Missionary Baptist Church, summer '64. Congregation members listening to Rev. Percy Gordon. Man in the foreground is a deacon.](https://paw.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/styles/portrait_feature/public/images/content/1800924.jpg?itok=biHX2G8K)
Valley View, Miss. Service at country church: St. Paul's Missionary Baptist Church, summer '64. Congregation members listening to Rev. Percy Gordon. Man in the foreground is a deacon.
Photos by Matt Herron ’53
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Photos by Matt Herron ’53