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...
From the Hazelton (Margaret J.) Freedom Summer Collection; Black-and-white photograph, taken by Rev. Frazer Thomason, of Dr. Aaron Henry's pharmacy in Clarksdale, Mississippi. Dr. Aaron Henry was a prominent African-American civil rights activist...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eddie Germano. Richard Nixon and a large grouip of men, including Nelson Rockefeller, Ronald Reagan, and George Romney, have been fighting. Each has been wounded, but Nixon is the winner. The...
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 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...
cartoon by Eddie Germano; A child representative of "our young" is pushed back by a jumping television. Out of the t.v. set come rays of "violence" and "bad examples." A quote from Dr. Milton Eisenhower, Chairman of Presidential Commission on...
DescriptionFrom the Mantinband (Rabbi Charles) Papers. Article comprised of excerpts from a diary kept by Rabbi Charles Mantinband in 1962 when he served as chairman for the Mississippi Division of the Southern Regional Council. Includes...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; An extensive list of incidents of violence and discrimination in Mississippi in October 1964. The last page of the document lists the officers of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party...
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 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 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...
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...
From the Paul B. Johnson Family Papers. Erle Johnston, Jr., director of the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission, writes to Governor Paul B. Johnson, Lieutenant Governor Carroll Gartin, and E.K. Collins, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Typewritten letter from Lawrence Guyot, Chairman of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) to friends of the party, dated May 24, 1965. The letter serves as a briefing on a...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Volunteer Lorne Cress, Director of the COFO-Hattiesburg Community Centers, records on a blackboard the nominations for Chairman of the Forrest County unit of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic...
Transcribed copy of a memo describing three bombings that took place on June 22, 1964, in McComb, Mississippi. The homes of Fred Bates, C. C. Bryant, and Corline Andrews were bombed.
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...
