From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. This cartoon is in two panels, and both sides are labeled "Beirut" on the ground at the bottom. In the left panel, a U.S. Army truck labeled "Peacekeepers" travels toward Beirut...
Transcribed copy of a report by the General Legislative Committee of Mississippi based on findings from an investigation of the occupation of the University of Mississippi in 1962 by the United States Department of Justice. Action was taken in...
Transcribed copy of an essay written by a Freedom School volunteer. Describes the locations of the Freedom Schools, subjects taught, enrollment, activities, as well as the students' concerns regarding discrimination. Also discusses the burdens of...
A Bill: To be entitled, "An Act to declare what persons shall be exempt from military service." By Mr. Collier, of Virginia; enacted by the Congress of the Confederate States of America circa 1861-1865.
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...
"An Act for Redress of Delays Arising by Writs of Error, and Writs of False Judgement in Several Cases" was passed on November 4, 1653. It identifies certain abuses of justice caused by the delaying of the execution of court sentences through what...
cartoon by Eddie Germano; A mailman delivers mail on Monday and a dog growls at him. The mailman says,"Here comes m'pal again with th'usual greeting!" On Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday the dog runs after the mailman and bites at his...
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 Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Reprint of Stokely Carmichael's article, What we want, which had been published in The New York Review of Books. Carmichael discusses Black power, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee...
From the Earle E. Johnston Papers. Transcribed copy of a typewritten document entitled "Attitudes in Mississippi," written by Erle Johnston in December 1967. Johnston describes what he considers to be the prevailing attitudes in Mississippi in the...
From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection.; Photograph of Carolyn Lane and six unidentified African American children taken during a Medical Committee for Human Rights (MCHR) trip to rural areas near Clarksdale, Mississippi, in September...
Certificate of survey for a 130 acre tract of land in the Natchez District owned by John Burnet. The survey was conducted by William Vousdan on land 45 miles north of the Fort of Natchez lying along Bayou Pierre in what is now Claiborne County,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Two men descend a stair inside the doorway of a building. One of them carries a briefcase labeled, "Israeli probe," and both appear anxious at what is outside the doorway....
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; This is a newsletter to inform people what is going on in Clay County, because the mainstream media rarely reports on civil rights news or issues regarding African Americans. It explains why...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Brief history of the Council of Federated Organizations, its origins, leaders, and bases of support.
From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection. Cartoon produced by the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) that shows the coffins of three civil rights workers (Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaney) who were killed in...
Photograph of female students dancing in the gymnasium. The caption reads: "What's going on, can I play?" This photo is featured in the 1947 Southerner yearbook on page 107; 6 x 4
Dedication Page of the 1924 Neka Camon. Text reads: The Dedication To Vice-President T.P. Scott a Gentleman, Christian, Leader and Teacher, whose whole-hearted service has been a strong factor in making S.T.C. what it is; this volume of Neka Camon...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Stampone. Two uniformed soldiers with rifles have entered a clearing in a jungle. The one labeled "U.S. withdrawal plans" is moving away from the other and calls over his shoulder, "Double...
