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 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 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...
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...
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...
Oral history.; Three interviews conducted on April 28, 30 and May 7, 1981 with Mr. Claude Ramsay at his office in Jackson, Mississippi. Ramsay was born in 1916 in Ocean Springs, Mississippi. He served briefly in the Civilian Conservation Corps...
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...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on June 18, 1980 with Charles Hudson Griffin (born 1926). Griffin served in the office of U. S. Congressman John Bell Williams until 1968 when he campaigned for the position himself. He served three terms...
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 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'...
