Oral history.; Interview conducted on September 7, 1996 with civil rights voting registration activist and Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) field secretary Lawrence Guyot (born 1939). He was also the chairman and delegate of the...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on November 3, 1993 with Horace H. Harned Jr. (born 1920). He was a former Mississippi State legislator, a member of the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission, and an active segregationist during the years of...
Oral history.; Norman discusses the creation and work of the Mississippi Humanities Council, the people responsible for its early development, and its programs concerning race relations and public education.
Oral history.; Interview conducted on June 10, 1994 with Fred Clark Sr. (born 1943). Mr. Clark grew up in the segregated society of Jackson, Mississippi. He was educated in Jackson, attending Smith Robertson Elementary School, Rowan Junior High,...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 5, 1998 with Judge Fred L. Banks, Jr. (born 1942). In the late 1960s, Judge Banks began his law career by serving for the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund. He was elected three times to the House of...
Oral history.; Mr. Balfour William Ruff Sr. was born March 31, 1923, in Jackson, Mississippi. He moved to Tupelo at a young age and attended its public schools. For many years he operated the Ruff Dairy Farm, the first in the Tupelo area to...
Oral history.; Mr. O.W. Reily Jr. was born on June 17, 1924, in Shreveport, Louisiana. As a child, he attended public school in Louisiana and was active in sports, including track, basketball, and boxing. From October, 1941, through November,...
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...
From the Hamlett (Ed) White Folks Project Collection. Ray Money, Jr., a freshman at Georgia Tech, is interested in taking part in a work-study program mentioned in a Council of Federated Organizations memo. He is uncertain about how useful he can...
From the Hamlett (Ed) White Folks Project Collection. Anne Braden's letter states her commitment to civil rights and expresses her frustration with being unable to participate in the civil rights movement due to her daughter Anita's heart...
From the Hamlett (Ed) White Folks Project Collection. Feeling that working with the White Folks Project (WFP) in Mississippi would put his Mississippi parents in jeopardy, Philip Alden asks to be assigned duties with the southwest Georgia Project.
From the Hamlett (Ed) White Folks Project Collection. This memo from Jim Dombrowski to Board Members of the Southern Conference Educational Fund (SCEF) and other friends concerns fundraising to pay the living expenses of four civil rights workers...
From the Hamlett (Ed) White Folks Project Collection. This document records the minutes of a meeting of Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) workers. It reports what each worker is working on and what they will work on in the future. It also...
From the Hamlett (Ed) White Folks Project Collection. Janet McNeill writes that due to unforeseen family circumstances she must decline being a part of the Mississippi Freedom Project.
Transcribed copy of a letter from Zoya Zeman to her family dated May 23, 1964, in which she writes about preparations for her summer participation in the Mississippi Freedom Project. She also asks for input from her family about her summer schedule...
From the Hamlett (Ed) White Folks Project Collection. Philip Alden's letter indicates frustration caused by a lack of communication from the White Folks Project (WFP), and by his inability to forward a $50 check for the Project.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Ed Gamble. Former President Richard Nixon is shown on the left half of the cartoon in a relaxed, outdoor setting. He is talking on the telephone while seated in a chair under a palm tree. He...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Ed Gamble. This cartoon is in four parts. In the first frame, Richard Nixon is speaking on the telephone to Leon Jaworski. Nixon says, "More tapes? Look, Jaworski, I've just about lost all my...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Ed Gamble. Henry Kissinger walks through a wooden gate holding a suitcase plastered with travel stickers that read "Mid-East, Moscow, China." In the foreground is a dog house labeled "Europe,"...
