Photograph from the Johnston (Erle E., Jr.) Papers; Black-and-white photograph of (left to right) Paul B. Johnson and Ross Barnett shaking hands in a court room.
Photograph from the Johnston (Erle E., Jr.) Papers; Black-and-white photograph of a burned-out vehicle taken during the riots at the University of Mississippi in the fall of 1962. Riots broke out in late September as a result of the integration of...
Photograph from the Johnston (Erle E., Jr.) Papers; Black-and-white photograph of a group of white and African-American civil rights demonstrators at the Woolworth's store in Jackson, Mississippi, on May 28, 1963. The sit-in was an attempt to...
Photograph from the Johnston (Erle E., Jr.) Papers; Black-and-white photograph of a painted portrait of Owen Cooper, taken in 1960. Cooper, a prominent businessman from Yazoo City, was one of the first leaders of the Head Start program that was...
Photograph from the Johnston (Erle E., Jr.) Papers; Black-and-white photograph of African-American and white civil rights workers picketing in McComb, Mississippi, for equal voting rights.
Photograph from the Johnston (Erle E., Jr.) Papers; Black-and-white photograph of African-American and white men and women demonstrating in McComb, Mississippi, for voting rights. Some of the demonstrators are holding picket signs.
Photograph from the Johnston (Erle E., Jr.) Papers; Black-and-white photograph of African-American civil rights activist Aaron Henry, taken in the 1980s.
Photograph from the Johnston (Erle E., Jr.) Papers; Black-and-white photograph of African-American civil rights activist Andrew (Andy) Young addressing a group of people.
Photograph from the Johnston (Erle E., Jr.) Papers; Black-and-white photograph of African-American civil rights activist Charles Evers speaking into a microphone which he is holding in his hand. Evers' brother was Medgar Evers, field secretary for...
Photograph from the Johnston (Erle E., Jr.) Papers; Black-and-white photograph of African-American civil rights activist Dr. Gilbert Mason, taken in 1960. Mason was a physician in Biloxi, Mississippi.
Photograph from the Johnston (Erle E., Jr.) Papers; Black-and-white photograph of African-American civil rights activist Gilbert Mason, taken in the 1980s. A physician in Biloxi, Mississippi, Dr. Mason was a local leader in the civil rights...
Photograph from the Johnston (Erle E., Jr.) Papers; Black-and-white photograph of Byron de la Beckwith taken in July 1963. Beckwith was convicted in 1994 for the 1963 murder of NAACP field secretary and civil rights activist Medgar Evers.
Photograph from the Johnston (Erle E., Jr.) Papers; Black-and-white photograph of civil rights demonstrators holding picket signs and kneeling at a march in McComb, Mississippi, for equal voting rights.
Photograph from the Johnston (Erle E., Jr.) Papers; Black-and-white photograph of Erle Johnston (left) accepting a framed certificate from Webb Burke (right), taken in 1968. Burke served as the director of the Mississippi State Sovereignty...
Photograph from the Johnston (Erle E., Jr.) Papers; Black-and-white photograph of Erle Johnston, Jr., age 33, upon his election as president of the Mississippi Press Association.
Photograph from the Johnston (Erle E., Jr.) Papers; Black-and-white photograph of Frank Smith, taken in the 1950s. Smith served as Congressman from Mississippi in the 1950s, taking a moderate stance on civil rights issues.
Photograph from the Johnston (Erle E., Jr.) Papers; Black-and-white photograph of Justice Reuben Vincent Anderson, taken in the 1980s. Anderson was the first African American to serve on the Mississippi Supreme Court.
