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...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Lyndon Johnson is sitting at the hospital bedside talking to the patient in the bed, a large rolled piece of paper with arms and legs wrapped and attached to traction devices....
Brochure from the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Brochure published by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) inviting college students, clergymen, laypersons, and businessmen to participate in various summer projects sponsored...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; SNCC Field Secretaries Bruce Gordon (left) and Cordell Hull Reagon (right) demonstrate with the assistance of a female volunteer how the Freedom Summer volunteers should protect themselves from...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A large box labeled "$11 billion foreign aid" is floating in a stream and is nearly to the edge of a waterfall labeled, "Spending cuts." Ronald Reagan is on one side of the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Reg Manning. A man labeled "Egypt" wearing Arab dress rides a camel over a sand dune in the Sahara Desert. He is riding away from what had been an oasis but is now a dry area next to a drooping...
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.; 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 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...
Oral history. Interview conducted on March 4, 1972 with Associate Justice Thomas Pickens Brady, of the Supreme Court of Mississippi in his chambers in Jackson, Mississippi. Brady was born on August 6, 1903, in New Orleans, Louisiana. He...
From the Zwerling (Matthew) Freedom Summer Collection. Typewritten letter by the Mississippi Assistance Project of Westchester County, New York, distributed to solicit funds for truck rentals needed to deliver supplies to freedom centers in...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Typewritten letter from Betty Garman, Northern coordinator for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), to SNCC volunteers. Garman thanks the volunteers and solicits...
From the Kitson (John) Letters. Letter to John Kitson from Charlotte Safford of London, seeking Kitson's assistance in securing a position with the hospital. The reverse contains a printed list of the General Committee of Governors and Guardians of...
From the Johnston (Erle E., Jr.) Papers; Typewritten letter from Kenneth Dean to Robert Nash dated April 4, 1967, in which Dean voices his concerns about the continued racial violence and discrimination in Mississippi. Dean describes an incident...
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. One-page typed letter by Peggy Quinn on letterhead of the Jackson COFO office, amended with a Greenville, Mississippi, address. Quinn identifies herself as Freedom School coordinator for COFO in...
From the Campbell (Will D.) Papers; Copy of a typewritten letter from Will D. Campbell to Gayraud Wilmore, dated April 1, 1965, asking for fund raising help for the ongoing recruitment of ministers. Financial assistance was needed to meet the...
From the Campbell (Will D.) Papers; Copy of a typewritten letter from Will D. Campbell to Walker Percy, dated September 2, 1965, in which Campbell asks Percy to serve on the board of the Committee of Southern Churchmen. He also discusses the goals...
Letter, dated 29 November 1863, from Brigadier General Boggs in Shreveport, Louisiana, to Major General James B. McPherson, commander at Vicksburg, Mississippi, requesting assistance in helping the family of a Dr. Catlett travel from Kentucky to...
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs; Photograph of Mayor Moran Pope with Hattiesburg's first safety car. The car was donated to the city by Barron Motor Company, with assistance from the Hattiesburg Junior Chamber of Commerce. The car is...
