From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Ed Valtman. Alabama Governor George Wallace drives an old crank-start car labeled "Governorship" in front of a mansion. A small Confederate flag flies on the hood of the car, and a dog races...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eddie Germano. George Wallace is sitting in a chair with his feet propped up on a stool and his hands behind his head. Lurleen Wallace enters the room carrying a tray with coffee and food....
From the Map Collection. Map of the Mississippi territory in 1814 by Francis Shallus. Mississippi territory at that time included what is now Alabama. Map is numbered 23 in top margin. Longitude given in degrees west from London and Philadelphia.
A collection of interviews with African-Americans of the Mississippi Gulf Coast, circa twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, who knew Colonel John Robinson, an African-American pilot who was tapped by Ethiopian Emperor Haile Sellassie in the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Former Alabama governor George Wallace is wearing an apron and carrying a feather duster. He answers the phone at the governor's desk, with "Gov. Lurleen Wallace" on the name...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eddie Germano. Alabama Governor George Wallace is shown as a screaming baby, dressed in a diaper and head cap. He is shaking a rattle with one hand and holding a bottle in the other. Seven...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Ed Valtman. A smiling, blond woman dressed in a 19th century dress and hat is labeled, "South." She holds a large Valentine card with a picture of Richard Nixon, labeled, "Be my...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on November 17, 1995 with Mr. Roger Barnhill. He was born on November 12, 1940 in Lincoln, Nebraska. Barnhill was recruited into the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in his senior year at...
From the Hardy (William H. and Sallie J.) Papers. Letter from William Hardy to Thomas H. Johnson, Sallie Hardy's father.; written from Alabama. There is no transcript for this letter.
From the Map Collection. A color map showing the rivers, cities, and counties of parts of Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida. On bottom right "Published under the superintendence of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful...
From the Map Collection. Map of the coast of early west Florida, including Pensacola, Mobile, New Orleans, and the mouth of the Mississippi River. At the top right of the map: "Gent. Mag. Feb. 1772." Includes inset: "Plan for a new settlement."...
Oral history.; Dorothea Allsup was born on February 4, 1916. Her family resided in Nebraska, but they moved to Epes, Alabama and then Macon, Mississippi, when she was seventeen. While Mrs. Allsup attended high school in Macon she met her future...
One patent for 160 acres of land in Washington County, Alabama. Title to the land, purchased at Fort St. Stephens, Alabama, belonged to Bookajah Smith, assignee of James P. Hainsworth. The land sale was handled in the St. Stephens Land Office at...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on August 25, 1971 with Erskine Caldwell (1903-1987). Mr. Caldwell was a prominent American author whose works include Tobacco Road, (1932) and God's Little Acre (1933).
A collection of interviews with African-Americans of the Mississippi Gulf Coast, circa twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, who knew Colonel John Robinson, an African-American pilot who was tapped by Ethiopian Emperor Haile Sellassie in the...
Photograph of Leonard Williams catching the pass that set up the winning touchdown for USM in the 1953 football game against the University of Alabama. Photograph also found in the 1954 Southerner yearbook on page 262; and in the September 25,...
Photograph of Billy Jarrell (No. 10) being carried off the field after a football victory over the University of Alabama. Photograph featured in the 1954 Southerner yearbook on page 272.
Oral history.; Dr. Sam Spinks was born on March 19, 1921, in Henleyfield, Mississippi. Dr. Spinks attended Henleyfield High School, Pearl River Junior College, The University of Southern Mississippi and The University of Florida. He served in the...
From the McAtee (William "Bill" G.) Civil Rights Collection; This collection contains an original curriculum packet given out at the SNCC-NCC training site in Oxford, Ohio, for Freedom Summer workers going to Mississippi. It is accompanied by...
