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...
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...
cartoon by John J. Knudsen; A man dressed in a lab coat labeled "E.P.A." is holding a cip board in one hand and pointing at a line of mufflers connected to one another. The man is talking to another man in a suit. The mufflers are attached to a...
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs; Photograph of the Barron Motor Company, the local Ford agency, with early models parked in the street; 4 x 4
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Stampone. Richard Nixon has lassoed together a man labeled "Special interest politics" and three cylindrical characters with faces labeled "Air pollution; Water pollution; Pesticide...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Ed Valtman. An ill President Jimmy Carter sits on the edge of a bed dressed in a bathrobe with his feet soaking in hot water. On the bedside table are various medications. Zbigniew Brzezinski...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Central Intelligence Agency director William J. Casey, dressed as a baseball player, is ducking balls labeled, "Questionable business deals" and "Libyan plot."
From the Thigpen (S.G.) Papers. Photograph of a Ford Model T with an American flag on the window surrounded by children. A fueling station is on the left behind the crowd and a Ford sign is mounted on the building behind the automobile.
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 Eldon Pletcher. A man dressed in a black overcoat labeled, "CIA" holds a large bag of money that has a hole in the bottom. Behind the man is a trail of collars and coins, labeled "Subsidies for...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ronald Reagan, dressed as a chef, is stirring a large pot on a hot stove. The pot is labeled "Reagan environmental policy." In the steam above the pot are the words, "Cry of the...
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 May 18, 1972 with Ms. Ruby Magee at College Hall at the University of Southern Mississippi. Magee was born in 1940 in Tylertown, Mississippi. In 1962, she received a BA in history and political science from...
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...
From the L.E. Faulkner Papers. Letter, from Representative John E. Rankin to L.E. Faulkner, President of the Mississippi Central Railroad Company, dated 30 August 1950. Rankin, who was a former member of the Committee on Un-American Activities,...
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...
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...
Materials in this collection were donated by William M. Colmer: First accession-1970. Additional information online at: http://www.lib.usm.edu/legacy/archives/m024.htm
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man whose upper body and head are drawn to resemble a fat sack tied at the top sits on a stool. The sack is labeled "State agency spending," and the face on the sack appears...
Oral history.; An interview with A.J. Holloway conducted on January 18, 2007. Mayor of Biloxi, Holloway describes the impact of Hurricane Katrina on the city, as well as volunteer efforts in recovery.
