Oral history.; Interview conducted on August 15, 1978 with Mr. Thomas Y. Minniece. Minniece was born in Meridian, Mississippi on October 9, 1912. He received a BA degree from the University of Texas in 1933 and a law degree from the University of...
A collection of eight interviews with participants in the Mississippi civil rights movement. The people interviewed discuss how they came to participate in the civil rights movement, their various activities, including voter registration, Freedom...
A collection of ten interviews with participants in the Mississippi civil rights movement. The people interviewed discuss how they came to participate in the civil rights movement, their various activities, including voter registration, Freedom...
Oral history.; Mr. Terry Allen Broadus was born on October 11, 1938. Mr. Broadus enrolled at Perkinston Agricultural High School in 1952 and later received a baseball scholarship to attend Perkinston Junior College. In the late 1960s, Mr. Broadus...
Oral history.; Interviews conducted on October 3, 1994 and October 10, 1994 with Mrs. Jane Menefee Schutt (born 1913). Mrs. Schutt was appointed to the Mississippi Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and served four years, the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Riedell. A cannon labeled "Univ. [University] of Iowa" is in position to be fired. A man with a goatee and wearing a college mortarboard labeled [Donald] "Barnett" is in the barrel of the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Jon Kennedy. A damaged multi-story building labeled "San Francisco State" has broken windows and is on fire. A group of college students and protestors, some with long beards and hair, has...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Jon Kennedy. Uncle Sam, with rolled up sleeves, stands over a wash tub. With one hand, he pours hot water from a kettle labeled "Public disgust" into the wash tub. With the other, he holds a...
From the Campbell (Will D.) Papers; Handwritten account of the student walk-out that occurred at Alcorn A & M College (now Alcorn State University) in Mississippi in March 1957. The protest was a result of a controversy related to Professor...
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. Black-and-white photograph of a Rust College student standing in front of the Freedom House in Holly Springs, Mississippi. A civil rights poster of Fannie Lou Hamer and a poster of the...
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. Black-and-white photograph of four Rust College students standing in front of the Freedom House in Holly Springs, Mississippi. Civil rights posters and posters of the Johnson/Humphrey 1964...
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. Black-and-white photograph of Freedom School students and volunteers standing on the porch of Freedom House. Frank Cieciorka (wearing glasses) and Kathleen Dahl (far right, only partially visible)...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Pamphlet with information about a work-study program coordinated by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and Tougaloo College, whereby 30 Tougaloo students per year could work to...
From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection.; Photograph of Freedom Summer volunteers taken at the civil rights summer project training session held in Oxford, Ohio, from June 21-27, 1964. Heidi Dole is second from the left.
From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection.; Photograph taken from the inside of a bus which was preparing to leave Oxford, Ohio, to go to Mississippi on June 27, 1964. Volunteers and COFO staff outside the buses sang freedom songs to those...
From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection.; Photograph taken in Oxford, Ohio, at the civil rights summer project training session held June 21-27, 1964. It shows unidentified participants of the project standing outside.
From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection.; Photograph taken in Oxford, Ohio, at the civil rights summer project training session held June 21-27, 1964. It shows, from left to right, Heidi Dole, Zoya Zeman, and other participants of the...
From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection.; Photograph taken in Oxford, Ohio, at the civil rights summer project training session held June 21-27, 1964. Volunteers are being shown how to take a protective position in case of an assault. The...
From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection.; Photograph taken in Oxford, Ohio, at the civil rights summer project training session held June 21-27, 1964. Zoya Zeman is on the far left side of the photo.
Oral history.; Interview conducted on November 6, 1979 with Dr. Arthur Lewis, emeritus professor of mathematics, emeritus professor of physics and astronomy, and emeritus Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Mississippi. Lewis...