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...
cartoon by Ranan Lurie; An Arab is shown driving a car labeled "Arab Terror" into the back of a lady driving a car labled "Israel." The lady is driving her car into the back of a man in a car labeled "Syria." The Syrian man is driving his car into...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Louisiana governor John McKeithen is pulling a covering off a huge dollar bill sculpture which is mounted on a base labeled "Governor's program." The covering is labeled, "New...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. President Richard Nixon stands behind a cannon labeled "Republican campaign." A group of people labeled "The foul mouths and rough necks" crowd around the cannon and pass shells...
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...
cartoon by Ben Wicks; One man is shown holding a telephone receiver to his chest and covering the speaking end with his hand. He tells Brezhenev,"It's the Russian Jews. They're all starting to write books." Brezhenev is holding a newspaper with...
Copy of a typewritten newsletter, the Mantinband Megillah, written in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, from Rabbi Charles and Anna Mantinband to friends, dated New Year 1962. The Mantinbands discuss their health problems, travels for the year, and the...
Typewritten letter from Matthew Zwerling to his parents, Israel and Florence Zwerling, and Sara, dated June 23, 1964. Discusses voter registration canvassing activities, other aspects of his work in and around Clarksdale, Mississippi, as well as...
From the Hamlett (Ed) White Folks Project Collection. This document records the minutes of a meeting covering daily miscellany of White Folks Project workers.
cartoon by John Knudsen; Two human figures are partially concealed beneath the fitted, full-body covering that would normally be placed underneath a knight's saddle. The figure in the rear is giant-sized in comparison to the figure in the front. ...
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 AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Gene Basset. A large group of men stand around an emaciated child that is crawling on its hands and knees. Three men in the front are labeled "U.S.; Britain; France." All the men are covering...
Oral history.; Interview conducted with Dr. Michael Smith, a professor of criminal justice at the University of Southern Mississippi and a journalist during the 1960s. Smith was born in 1942 in Waterloo, Iowa. After his family's move to Jackson,...
Oral history.; Interviews conducted on May 11 and 12, 1992 with James C. Simpson (1930-1994). Simpson was elected to the Mississippi House of Representatives from Harrison County in 1964. He served six more consecutive terms covering more than 20...
Oral history.; Ms. Margaret Keith Andresen was born in Biloxi, Mississippi on May 3, 1943. She attended Perkinston High School and the Perkinston Campus of Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College. As a teacher at Moss Point High School from...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on January 5, 1978 with Miss Florence Mars at her home in Philadelphia, Mississippi. Mars was born on January 1, 1923 in Philadelphia, Mississippi. She studied at Millsaps College and University of Mississippi,...
