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...
Oral history.; Mr. Alvin L. Fielder Sr. was born December 7, 1900 in Newton County, Mississippi. Mr. Fielder moved to Meehan Junction, Mississippi in 1913 and remained there until 1918, when he moved to Meridian. In 1918 he was a lumberyard saw...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 19, 1975 with Otho Monroe (born 1912). Mr. Monroe was superintendent of the Senatobia School District from 1949 until 1968, when he resigned in protest of school desegregation.
From the Sarah E. Allen Burns Collection; Sarah Allen Burns with her class in Rockport, Mississippi. After Sarah received her certificate from Mississippi Normal College in 1913, she went on to her first teaching job in Rockport, Mississippi,...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 3, 1976 with Dr. William A. Butts at his office on the campus of the University of Southern Mississippi. Butts was born in 1933 near Kilmichael, Mississippi. After graduating high school, he went on to...
From the McLoughlin Brothers Papers. Paste-ups for the jacket or title page of Adventures on the High Trail, Lost! Two Boys Battle with the Elements, and Unexplored! With the Forest Rangers of the Northwest for the Allen Chaffee Books series, from...
From the McLoughlin Brothers Papers. A Letter from Miss Anne Allen to McLoughlin Brothers Inc., from the correspondence series of the McLoughlin Brother Papers. The McLoughlin Brothers Papers contain manuscripts, typescripts, galleys,...
From the McLoughlin Brothers Papers. A Letter from Ella Allen to McLoughlin Brothers Inc., from the correspondence series of the McLoughlin Brother Papers. The McLoughlin Brothers Papers contain manuscripts, typescripts, galleys, correspondence,...
From the McLoughlin Brothers Papers. A Letter from Rubie Allen to McLoughlin Brothers Inc., from the correspondence series of the McLoughlin Brother Papers. The McLoughlin Brothers Papers contain manuscripts, typescripts, galleys, correspondence,...
Certificate awarded to Sarah E. Allen upon graduation from Mississippi Normal College. This certificate is from the first MNC session; 50 women and 6 men graduated in 1913.
cartoon by Allen Johnson; Christopher Columbus and a Viking stand face to face, having an argument. With one hand, Columbus gestures toward a ruined, polluted city; with the other hand, he points a finger of blame at the Viking.
cartoon by Allen Johnson; A man labeled "U.S. Taxpayer" sweats and hunches beneath the extraordinary weight of two pigs that he carries on his back. The first and larger of the two pigs is labeled "Federal tax" The second and smaller of the two...
cartoon by Allen Johnson; Two sieves labeled "Federal Income Tax" are held in midair by a person whose cuff links are labeled "IRS" One of the sieves is very fine-meshed and the other has mesh with very large holes. The large-meshed sieve is...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Allen Johnson. A U.S. soldier labeled "Returning Vietnam veterans" looks at a poster of job opportunities attached to a brick wall beneath a sign for an employment agency. The list includes...
cartoon by Allen Johnson; A distinguished looking man sits in a plush chair behind a desk. A second man has pulled up to the desk and offers the first man a cigarette, which he declines. Behind the desk is a huge window that looks onto a series...
cartoon by Allen Johnson; An elderly man and woman walk beneath a small unbrella labeled "10% increase" that barely offers them any protection from the impending rain. A label attached to the umbrella reads "Social security benefits" The man and...
