From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection. A Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) poster. Photo by Danny Lyon of John Lewis with two others demonstrating at the "all white" swimming pool in Cairo Illinois in the summer of 1962....
cartoon by Roy Peterson; Gamal Abdel Nasser repairs a statue of himself with tape from a first aid kit. The caption on the pedestal of the statue reads,"My Name Is Gamal Abdel Nasser, Dictator of Dictators: look on my works, ye mighty, and...
Oral history.; Robert Elton Cox was born February 6, 1917, at Mannsdale, Mississippi in Madison County. He attended school in Madison and graduated from Millsaps College in Jackson. He taught and coached for two years before going into the service....
Oral history.; Interview conducted on June 26, 1979 with Mr. William J. Simmons at his office in Jackson, Mississippi. Simmons was born in 1916 in Utica, Mississippi. He attended Millsaps College and Mississippi College, graduating from the...
Poster from the Joseph and Nancy Ellin Freedom Summer Collection. Poster (approximately 18" x 14"). Photograph by Danny Lyon of three well-dressed, young African Americans. There are two young men and one young woman in the photograph, kneeling on...
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.; Interview conducted on November 6, 1979 with Dr. Arthur Lewis, emeritus professor of mathematics, emeritus professor of physics and astronomy, and emeritus Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Mississippi. Lewis...
Oral history.; The Honorable Frank D. Barber was born on April 2, 1929, in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Barber attended the University of Mississippi for a year before volunteering for the U.S. Army which involved National Guard work in the U.S. and...
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