From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man labeled "Colombia" is kicking Fidel Castro out of a forest or jungle. Castro is holding a satchel labeled "Cuban offensive into Central America" and is saying, "You win...
From the Ben-Ami (Rabbi David Z.) Papers. This flyer advertises a campaign headed by comedian and civil rights activist Dick Gregory to send 20,000 turkeys to needy families in Mississippi. The flyer announces that for $5.00, Chicagoans can donate...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by William Sandeson. Leonard Woodcock (United Auto Workers) and Henry Ford II (Ford Motor Company) stand in the wings of a proscenium stage. They are dressed as vaudevillians, complete with canes...
From the Rare Books Collection. What constitutes a Confederate imprint? Preliminary suggestions for bibliographers and catalogers, by Charles Heartman, was published in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, at the Book Farm in 1939. This is one of 250 copies...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Riedell. Chinese leader Mao Zedong and a second Chinese man smile at each other from either side of a map of a unified Vietnam. The cities of Hanoi and Saigon are labeled. The cartoon...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Local people and volunteers cross arms and join hands to sing the anthem of the civil rights movement, "We Shall Overcome," at True Light Baptist Church in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, as part of...
cartoon by John Stampone; A giant turtle stands in the center of North America. An oval seal labeled "Fulbright" covers the aperture from which the turtle would extend its head. A piece of paper under one of the turtle's forelegs...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Newsletter published by the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO)" Topics in this issue include an incident of discrimination against a mother and her sick child, Freedom Schools, the...
Violetta, or I'm Thinking of a Flower. Words by Morgan C. Kennedy, Esq. Music by Edward O. Eaton. Inscribed to Misses Maria W. Skelton and Kate S. Finney, of Virginia.
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Federal grand jury records of one count of conspiracy and three counts of murder against Cecil Ray Price, Edgar Ray Killen, and 16 other men in the deaths of James Earl Chaney, Andrew Goodman,...
From the University of Southern Mississippi Art Museum collection. Painting of a map outline of the United States of America that is blurry, as if it is underwater, by Tony Lewis.
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 AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Leonid Brezhnev is behind a podium that has a hammer and sickle symbol on it, yelling "The U.S. is guilty of adventurism!" He is waving his arms, and around him are jagged...
From the Charles Ghigna Papers.; Two typescript pages entitled "Images and Impressions of South America" written by Charles Ghigna on his trip to Venezuela (1998). 8.5" x 11"
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man dressed in colonial clothing is labeled, "America's most interesting city." He is smiling and holding five large playing cards in his hand, one of which is labeled,...
