Oral history.; Interview conducted on July 7, 1993 with Lt. Col. Billie Hughes of the Mississippi Highway Safety Patrol. Hughes was born in Pearl River County, Mississippi. He grew up in Pike County, Mississippi. After working for the railroad...
Oral history.; Foster discusses the Mississippi Humanities Council, the teaching of African-American history in Mississippi schools, grant writing and funding, and race relations in Mississippi.
Oral history.; Interview conducted on November 3, 1993 with Horace H. Harned Jr. (born 1920). He was a former Mississippi State legislator, a member of the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission, and an active segregationist during the years of...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on June 5, 1999 with Sheila Michaels (born 1939). She attended the College of William and Mary, but was suspended for her political and racial opinions while on the school's newspaper board. In 1961, she joined...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 7, 1993 with James Nix (born 1937). In 1966, Mr. Nix formed a civil rights activist group called the Spirit. This group agitated for civil rights in Hattiesburg and served as bodyguards for local civil...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Local activists Gladys Young (left) and Gracie Hawthorne (right) sit on either side of Sandy Leigh, SNCC Field Secretary and Director of the COFO-Hattiesburg Project. They are on the steps...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Volunteers and local African-American activists participate in a meeting held in a large room with square pillars in an African-American church during Freedom Summer in Hattiesburg,...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Local activists and volunteers participate in a meeting of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) at the St. Paul United Methodist Church in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Three African American civil rights activists meet outside Freedom Summer headquarters at 507 Mobile Street in Hattiesburg, Mississippi: (left to right) Reverend W.D. Ridgeway; SNCC Field...
Booklet from the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Booklet compiled for delegates of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) who will attend the Democratic National Convention. Describes the MFDP and the contributions of...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A psychologist (or psychiatrist) drawn to resemble Sigmund Freud sits in a chair taking notes as he listens to his client (or patient), who is sitting in a chair across from...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Arthur Henrikson. In the center of the cartoon are two people who hold protest signs that read, "Against the war" and "Against those against the war." Each protestor in the center has a...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Ed Valtman. A very tall Uncle Sam bends over at the waist, with his hands clasped behind his back, in order to look into the face of a very small Sargent Shriver, who stands on stilts. The two...
A collection of ten 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 six 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 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 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 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.; An interview conducted on May 12, 2006 with Victoria Cintra. Ms. Cintra discusses the problem of the exploitation of immigrant labor in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
Oral history.; Interview conducted on July 28, 1981 with Reverend Clinton Collier at the Methodist Church in Morton, Mississippi. Collier was born on August 24, 1909 in rural Neshoba County. After completing the eighth grade, which was as high as...
