Photograph of "Uncle" Ned, who transported students' trunks from the train depot to the Mississippi Normal College campus. Also found in Dearly Bought, Deeply Treasured on page 26, and the 1925 Neka Camon yearbook on page 30; 7 x 5 1/2
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...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by John Stampone. An astronaut is shown standing on the moon, and the moon rests in the palm of a giant hand. Clouds conceal all but the hand and forearm of the person holding the moon. The earth...
Photograph of the Administration Building. Also found in Chester M. Morgan's book, Dearly bought, deeply treasured on page 49, and in the 1931 Neka Camon yearbook on page 30.
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; A local African American child sits in the doorway of an African American church during Freedom Summer in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, 1964. Near the child is a hand-lettered sign on crumpled...
From the Quantrill (William Clarke) Research Collection; Letter from William E. Connelley to Captain William H. Gregg, regarding information on Quantrill from Sylvester Akers.
"An Act for Setling the Jurisdiction of the Court of Admiralty" was passed on July 30, 1653. The court was given jurisdiction over all cases involving maritime commerce, including ships and their equipment, the provisioning of seagoing vessels,...
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 Adams County Police & Miscellaneous County Records. Application from a free black named Charles Harris for a license to remain in Natchez, signed by various Natchez citizens and dated 30 July 1856.
cartoon by Jim Ivey; "Appropriations Bills" worry as they look at an exclamation mark with a "Veto" stamp and a question mark with a "Veto Override" stamp.
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Rabbi Arthur J. Lelyveld shortly after he and fellow voter registration volunteers Lawrence Spears and David Owen were attacked by two Caucasian men from Collins, Mississippi. The assault took...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Louisiana governor John McKeithen, wearing mountaineering clothing, has a coil of rope attached to his belt. He is standing at the edge of a cliff, facing away from the edge,...
From the Kate Greenaway Papers. Unsigned graphite sketch for the book "A Apple Pie," published in 1886. "C Cut It" page. 25 x 30 cm. (12 x 17 cm.) Three boys and four girls look on with plates in hand. Early concept.
From the Kate Greenaway Papers. Unsigned graphite sketch for the book "A Apple Pie," published in 1886. "C Cut It" page. 24 x 30 cm. (18 x 24 cm.) Three girls and a boy sit around a long table. Early concept.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eddie Germano. A cartoonist is shown working at the drafting table, pen in hand, with question marks surrounding his head. The faces of three past presidents (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, John F....
