From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Reg Manning. A dead man covered from waist to calf by a sheet labeled "Watergate" lies on a hospital gurney. Four men in surgical garb and masks are trying to revive the man. A man labeled...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on July 31, 1981 with Mr. Cecil Shelton at the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Shelton was born on September 1, 1945 in Gore Springs, Mississippi. After graduating high school in...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; Claude Ramsay addresses the need of labor union organization in the Mississippi Delta. He explains the condition of African American farmers in the Delta and the economic effects that...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Jon Kennedy. Labor leader George Meany is smoking a cigar that has exploded in his face. The smoke from the exploding cigar is labeled "Limited spending on unemployment." The end of the...
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...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on February 7 and 21, 1992 with Mr. Thomas Knight Sr. at the University of Southern Mississippi. Knight was born on July 9, 1920 near Hattiesburg, Mississippi. In 1941, he began working at the Reliance...
From the Hamlett (Ed) White Folks Project Collection. This document from [?] Whitman relates some of his experiences networking for the AFL-CIO and the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) and the possible allying of the labor movement with...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; The report explains the reasoning and merits of the labor movement in 1965. It discusses the need for radical leadership and more union organization in the South. It also mentions students'...
