From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man is flying a jet plane labeled, "Constitutional amendments...Grants-in-aid, veterans' taxes, etc." over the Louisiana state house, causing a sonic boom labeled "Ker-boom!"...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Mardi Gras balloons are floating in the air above the U.S. Capitol. In the distance is the Washington Monument with a crown at the top. Between the Capitol and the Monument are...
Photograph of ground breaking ceremony for the Chain Technology Center. Left to right: Aubrey Lucas, Shelby Thames, W. M. Shoemaker (IHL Board of Trustees), Lieutenant Governor Evelyn Gandy, Bobby Chain, Charles W. Moorman, Senator Nap Cassibry,...
From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection. Cartoon produced by the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) that shows the coffins of three civil rights workers (Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaney) who were killed in...
From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection. Poster produced by the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) that reads "Now with your hand, pull the lever down." Voting booth levers are labeled Justice, Equality, and Freedom. Also shows...
Photograph of President Aubrey Lucas and others at the Cook Library ground breaking ceremony. Also featured in the 1993 Southerner yearbook on page 50.
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 Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; This edition of the Freedom Press, a production of Freedom School students, contains articles on topics such as canvassing, letters to government officials, and breaking down the barriers...
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 May 17, 1972 with Associate Justice Thomas Pickens Brady, of the Supreme Court of Mississippi in his chambers in Jackson, Mississippi. This is the second part of an interview conducted on March 4, 1972 with...
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 Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection. Letter written by Jesse Morris for the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO), and sent to the workers and friends of the Mississippi Freedom Project of 1964. The letter is written on the back...
Cover of the January 1955 edition of the Mississippi Southern College Alumni News. Photograph features the ground breaking for the new College Union building. President R. C. Cook, "Spud" Bradley, and Moran M. Pope turn the first spade of dirt.
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 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 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...
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.; Dr. Antone Walter Tannehill, Jr., was born May 22, 1929, in New Orleans, Louisiana, but grew up in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. He attended Vanderbilt University and Duke University Medical School. He served an internship at the...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on September 20, 1979 with Dr. Dewey Lane at the Robinson Lane Surgical Clinic in Pascagoula, Mississippi. Lane was born on September 27, 1934 in Starkville, Mississippi. He attended Vanderbilt University from...
