Oral history.; Interview conducted on May 1, 1972 with Dr. Aaron Henry in his drugstore in Clarksdale, Mississippi. Henry was born on July 2, 1922 in Clarksdale, Mississippi. After serving in World War II, he went to Xavier College (now Xavier...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on September 17, 1980 with the Honorable Tony Byrne, former mayor of Natchez, Mississippi at his office in the Natchez City Hall. Byrne was born on May 18, 1936 in Natchez, Mississippi. He attended Mississippi...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on April 18, 1996 with Zoya Zeman (born 1943). Ms. Zeman was a civil rights activist who worked on the Mississippi Summer Project in Clarksdale, where she worked at the community center, organizing classes and...
Oral history.; Born on January 19, 1958, in Greenwood, Mississippi, Jon Levingston grew up in a Jewish family in Cleveland, Mississippi. Mr. Levingston attended a boarding school in Rome, Georgia and then the University of Georgia and the Virginia...
Transcribed copy of affidavits describing incidents of harassment and violence in Mississippi during the summer of 1964, not including statements about events considered widely publicized.
Photograph of Ben Garry during a football game against Auburn University. Garry rushed for more yards than any player in Mississippi college football history. Photograph also found on page 143 of Chester M. Morgan's Dearly bought, deeply treasured,...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on May 9, 2007 with Perry and Bobbye Gibson. Long-time residents of the Gulf Coast, they discuss their ties to the community of Bay St. Louis as well as their experiences during and after Hurricane Katrina.
An interview conducted on 06-08-1999 with Umoja Kwanguvu (born1925). Born William Jones, Umoja Kwanguvu actively protested and defied segregation while in the military, conducted protest activities against the prevailing Jim Crow attitudes and laws...
Oral history.; Mr. George A. Stevens was born in 1910 in Forrest County, Mississippi. He attended Hattiesburg public schools but graduated from high school in Anthony, New Mexico. Mr. Stevens returned to attend The University of Southern...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on October 24, 1975 with the Honorable O.H. Barnett (born 1902). Mr. Barnett was elected Circuit Court Judge in 1958 and served until 1975. He presided during the civil rights movement in the 1960s, during the...
A handwritten list of Freedom Summer volunteers and staff in Hattiesburg written by Joe Ellin. The list gives the volunteers' religion, race, approximate age, and their work site. There are tally marks for the statistics on the lower right corner....
Photograph of Ben Gantt and Ken Fortenberry going for a rebound during a basketball game in 1959. Featured in the 1959 Southerner yearbook on page 127.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Ben Wicks. A man is lying on his back in front of a television set holding a newspaper in his hand. The man has apparently fainted. Richard Nixon is shown on the television screen saying,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Ben Wicks. A man is holding a map and, looking over his shoulder, speaking to Lyndon Johnson. Johnson, who has been looking out a window toward the U.S. Capitol, looks toward the man. The man...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Ben Wicks. Ho Chi Minh holds an olive branch in one hand. He pulls the leaves off and tosses them away, and they become missiles.
cartoon by Ben Wicks; One man is shown holding a telephone receiver to his chest and covering the speaking end with his hand. He tells Brezhenev,"It's the Russian Jews. They're all starting to write books." Brezhenev is holding a newspaper with...
cartoon by Ben Wicks; A mother is shown sitting on the edge of a bed with a baby in her lap. There are toys surrounding them and the baby is holding an ABC book. The mother is looking at a television screen where a man is speaking. She is...
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...
