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...
Finding aid for manuscript collection. ; This collection contains materials on Dr. Leslie A. Falk's medical career and his Civil Rights activities in Mississippi, but the bulk of the collection consists primarily of materials on the Underground...
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...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on September 7, 1996 with civil rights voting registration activist and Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) field secretary Lawrence Guyot (born 1939). He was also the chairman and delegate of the...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on August 31, 1995 with long-time civil rights activist Ms. Winson Hudson. In 1956 her community challenged the enforcement of the "separate but equal" provision of Brown v. Board of Education. When local banks...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on December 11, 1974 with Mrs. Lillie Jones at her home in Philadelphia, Mississippi. Jones was born in 1892 in Lauderdale County, Mississippi and soon after her family moved to Neshoba County. She attended a...
From the McCain (William D.) Pamphlet Collection; The Jewish author of this pamphlet prefers to remain unknown, because he is afraid some people will ridicule his support of segregation. He points out that all of the Jews in the United States do...
From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection. Outlines some race relation issues between African Americans and white Southerners. Twenty problems are listed, including that white Southerners fear African Americans and that African Americans...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Voter registration volunteer Lawrence Spears plays with an African American child in the home of an African American family with whom he stayed during Freedom Summer in Hattiesburg,...
From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection.; Photograph taken in September 1964 of three unidentified African American children in a community center. It shows one older African American boy standing between two younger African American...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; A local African American man wearing a SNCC pin writes at a table in front of the altar during a Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) meeting in St. Paul United Methodist Church during...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Three unidentified local African American residents standing near a sign that reads "Parking For Pastor Only" during Freedom Summer 1964. The photograph was likely taken in the parking lot of...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; A local African American girl rests her chin on her hand while watching an African American woman at the front of the church during Freedom Summer in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, 1964. The church...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Three African American girls from Hattiesburg, Mississippi, stand near a tree in front of True Light Baptist Church during Freedom Summer, 1964. Affixed to the tree is a hand-made sign reading...
Transcribed copy of a speech given by Victoria Jackson Gray (Adams) during her campaign for the United States Senate in 1964. Discusses Section I, Title I of the Civil Rights Bill and its effects on African Americans in Mississippi. Also describes...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Bulletin released by the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) regarding the June 7, 1966, primary elections. Discusses the increased violence against African Americans in...
From the University of Southern Mississippi Art Museum collection. Oil on canvas painting of African American men and women dancing with buildings in the background, by Matthew Yarrell.
From the University of Southern Mississippi Art Museum collection. Oil painting of a topless African American woman wearing a red headdress, by Marian Sacks.
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...
