Transcribed copy of affidavits describing incidents of harassment and violence in Mississippi during the summer of 1964, not including statements about events considered widely publicized.
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
Oral history.; The family of Dr. Isaac Thomas moved to Hattiesburg from Beaumont, Perry County, Mississippi, in 1935. He entered Eureka High School that year, graduating in 1938, one of a class of thirty three. Dr. Thomas stresses how important...
From the Political Campaign Collection. Campaign handout for Ross Collins, candidate for U.S. Senate. Collins ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate in 1934 against Theodore Bilbo and in 1941 against Wall Doxey.
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 in the spring of 1995 with Eberta Spinks (born 1914). In 1964, Mrs. Spinks became active in the civil rights movement. She housed civil rights workers in her home, integrated the restaurant of the Pinehurst Hotel...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on April 18, 1996 with Zoya Zeman (born 1943). Ms. Zeman was a civil rights activist who worked on the Mississippi Summer Project in Clarksdale, where she worked at the community center, organizing classes and...
From the Political Campaign Collection. Campaign handout for Ross Collins, candidate for U.S. Senate. Collins ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate in 1934 against Theodore Bilbo and in 1941 against Wall Doxey.
Oral history.; Interview conducted on August 26, 1975 with Earl W. Banks, 1905-1986. He enrolled at Alcorn University in Lorman, Mississippi, for one year, then transferred to Jackson State University where he completed high school. He continued...
Photograph of head football coach Bobby Collins discussing a call with an umpire. Both men are pointing onto the field, and the umpire holds a rulebook in one hand.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on October 6, 2006 with Fred Dunaway and Caroline Dunaway. Residents of Back Bay, Biloxi, Mr. & Mrs. Dunaway discuss their experiences during and after Hurricane Katrina.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on June 18, 1980 with Charles Hudson Griffin (born 1926). Griffin served in the office of U. S. Congressman John Bell Williams until 1968 when he campaigned for the position himself. He served three terms...
Oral history.; Zella McNair Weathersby was born January 1, 1929, in Mt. Olive, Mississippi. Mrs. Weathersby graduated from high school from Depriest (now known as Earl Travillion) in Hattiesburg. She attended Jackson State College and later did...
Photograph of Sammy Winder with his former Southern Miss coach, Bobby Collins, at Winder's induction into the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame. Featured in the USM Alumni News, vol. 51, no. 4 (Spring 1998) on page 3.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by John Collins. Five of six panels show world leaders reading newspaper headlines of Lyndon Johnson's decision not to seek reelection in 1968. Canada's Lester B. Pearson says, "Those Americans!...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by John Collins. Marc Lalonde, wearing a beanie and a sweatshirt with a maple leaf, shouts into a megaphone. He is jumping off the ground and his legs are open in a cheerleader's split. In one...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Collins. Richard Nixon is flying a kite in a strong wind. The kite's tail has ribbons labeled "NATO, NORAD, SEATO, Chiang." Nixon is looking over his shoulder and upward at the source of...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Collins. The numbers 1-9-7-5 are linked to each other and placed underground to form a convoluted tunnel. Lions labeled "Inflation" and "Unemployment" guard the entrance and exit. Five men...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by John Collins. An elephant labeled "Nixon doctrine" has encircled Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau with its trunk, and Trudeau has dropped the maple leaf he was holding. The elephant's...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by John Collins. A large fish representing the United States swims in the foreground. Fidel Castro, wearing swim trunks bearing the hammer and sickle symbol, is pinching the tail of the American...