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...
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...
Photograph of a typing class. This photo can also be found in the 1946 Southerner yearbook on page 55; also Dearly bought, deeply treasured page 81; 5 x 3 1/2
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; A group of children attending a Freedom School class at Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer in 1964, sit on the church steps with their teacher. The...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs.Three young African American girls sitting together during a Freedom School class at Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer 1964. Freedom School classes often...
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...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Palmers Crossing teenagers Mary E. Stepps (left) and Jimmella Stokes (right) assist with registration at a table located outdoors at Palmers Crossing in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher; The Grim Reaper hides behind a sign that reads, "School Zone (not in effect during summer months)." Children carry school books and approach the sign. A caption reads, "More...
