From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Attorney General Ramsey Clark is dressed as a sheriff in the Old West and wears a star labeled, "The nation's No.1 cop--L.B.J." He has two gun belts around his waist with a...
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...
cartoon by Arthur Henrikson;"Percy" takes an arm of a lounging "Illinois voter" and says,"Get up and realize your potential!"Douglas" pushes the voter back down and says,"Relax--you've never had it so good!"
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Statement released by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) to publicize the fact that eight people were arrested in Belzoni, Mississippi, and remained in jail on charges...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Ed Valtman. Richard Nixon is dribbling a basketball all over a basketball court that is full of players, most of whom are on the floor. A broken line indicates Nixon has jumped over many of...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Memorandum describing the legal basis of the Federal government's authority in dealing with civil rights issues, whether by court action or force.
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; "A Call to Action" issued by the Commission on Religion and Race of the National Council of Churches, requesting the support of churches for the Congressional Challenge effort led by the...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; This report notes that the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee's (SNCC) actions are based on the values of love, equality and nonviolence. The report includes excerpts from SNCC's rules...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man labeled "Congress" is standing behind his desk, dusting it off with a whisk broom. A piece of paper that has been swept away has the words, "Flurry of action on major...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Congressional record of testimony regarding Freedom Summer and the threat to civil rights workers; testimony provided by COFO representatives, including Robert Moses and Lawrence Guyot.
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Statement issued by candidates of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) Clifton Whitley, Ralthus Hayes, Edwin King, Clinton Collier, and Lawrence Guyot, announcing their...
From the Adams (Victoria Gray) Papers. Article reprinted from Soul Force, the journal of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), dated March 31, 1968. Discusses the foundation of SCLC, led by Martin Luther King, Jr. The article...
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 University of Southern Mississippi Art Museum collection. Oil on canvas painting of boats on a lake with buildings and hills in the background, by Catherine L. French.
From the Zwerling (Matthew) Freedom Summer Collection. Copy of a typewritten document that provides guidelines for parents of New York area students who have committed to participate in Mississippi Freedom Project in 1964. Parents are...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 24, 1972 with Dr. William Penn Davis at his home in Jackson, Mississippi. Davis was born in Union County, Mississippi on August 5, 1903. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Mississippi College in...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on January 23, 1973 with Mr. William Dukes in his office in Gulfport, Mississippi. Dukes was born in the Sullivans' Hollow area near Raleigh, in Smith County, Mississippi on January 15, 1927. After his discharge...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on May 17, 1972 with Associate Justice Thomas Pickens Brady, of the Supreme Court of Mississippi in his chambers in Jackson, Mississippi. This is the second part of an interview conducted on March 4, 1972 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...
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...
