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 Ben-Ami (Rabbi David Z.) Papers. This report by the Mississippi Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights describes the committee's procedures and lists its members, but it focuses mainly on the allegations of...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ronald Reagan sits on the edge of a desk with a "Manager" nameplate. Sports lockers are in the background. With Reagan are three suited-up white baseball players with "Civil...
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 Arthur Henrikson; A fierce looking bull dog stands at the base of a tree and barks at a man who has climbed the tree. The tag on the dog's collar is labeled "Crime Commission" A man wearing a trench coat and a hat low over his eyes is...
From the Earle E. Johnston Papers. Transcribed copy of a typewritten document entitled "Attitudes in Mississippi," written by Erle Johnston in December 1967. Johnston describes what he considers to be the prevailing attitudes in Mississippi in the...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; List of nine bills signed into law by Mississippi Governor J. P. Coleman. The list was compiled to show Coleman's support of racist policies as demonstrated by his passage of bills...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; "A Call to Action" issued by the Commission on Religion and Race of the National Council of Churches, requesting the support of churches for the Congressional Challenge effort led by the...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Complaint letter with accompanying instructions and cautions, for use to report civil rights violations pursuant to Title III of the Civil Rights Acts of 1964. Letters are to be sent to the U.S....
From the Faulkner (Leesha) Civil Rights Collection. Confidential report regarding Tougaloo College submitted by Attorney Shelby R. Rogers to Erle Johnston, Chair of the State Sovereignty Commission.
cartoon by Arthur Henrikson; A tow truck labeled "legislative study commission" tows a car with a Capitol dome on its top and labeled "legislative operations." The car is said to be "due for an overhaul."
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...
Photograph from the Johnston (Erle E., Jr.) Papers; Black-and-white photograph of Erle Johnston (left) accepting a framed certificate from Webb Burke (right), taken in 1968. Burke served as the director of the Mississippi State Sovereignty...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A government building is shown in the lower half of the cartoon, with "Administration of justice is the foundation of liberty" across the pediment. "Charges of a conspiracy to...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man with a "domed stadium" for a head plays a guitar and sings, "Downtown...Where all the lights are bright...Downtown, Loyola and Poydras...Downtown...Forget all your...
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...
cartoon by Jim Ivey; The "Tallahassee City Commission" tells a young boy, "Hang Your Head on a Hickory Limb, But Don't Go Near the Water." The boy sweats as he looks at a pool representing "Tallahassee City Pools."
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...
Joint Resolutions: Expressing the sense of Congress on the subject of the late Peace Commission. By Mr. Perkins, from Committee of Foreign Affairs; Read first and second times, and ordered to be printed by the Congress of the Confederate States of...