From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eddie Germano. A man and a woman are walking past the United Nations Building and its lineup of national flags. They look up at a new skyscraper in New York, and they appear surprised to see...
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...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Draft, with editorial marks and instructions, of a speech or monologue by Robert Moses. Moses discusses many topics, including Mississippi civil rights activism in the early 1960s, current...
From the Zwerling (Matthew) Freedom Summer Collection. Copy of a typewritten document distributed by the New York office of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Document outlines the status of various legislative proposals in...
Photograph of Dixie Darlings and former Dixie Darlings in London. In 2004, the Dixie Darling founding class of 1954 was inducted into The Pride Hall of Fame. More than 150 alumnae performed with the current Dixie Darlings at halftime during 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...
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...
cartoon by Ed Valtman; A shoe salesman labeled "Congress" sits on a stool. Two shoeboxes labeled "Congressional" and "Appropriations" sit on the floor next to the stool. The salesman is attending a woman labeled "Great Society," who is wearing a...
From the Ellzey (Wesley James) Papers. A letter from C.A. Lany to Wesley and Margaret Ellzey dated November 11, 1886. Lany writes of her husband's work and her current living situation. She then asks Wesley about the death of their mother and asks...
Copy of a typewritten newsletter from Rabbi Charles and Anna Mantinband to friends, offering Season's Greetings and an update of current events in the life of their family. Mentions the couple's move from northern Alabama to Hattiesburg,...
From the Johnston (Erle E., Jr.) Papers; Typewritten letter from Erle Johnston, director of the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission, sent to editors of northern newspapers in 1969. Johnston discusses the current climate in the state as a...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Letter from Karen Pate of the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) to friends, dated June 11, 1965. Pate thanks friends for their financial support and requests further support. ...
From the Campbell (Will D.) Papers; Copy of a typewritten letter from Will D. Campbell to Rev. Ray Gibbons, dated May 12, 1964, regarding the intentions of the Committee of Southern Churchmen in Mississippi. Campbell discusses the current...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man wearing old-fashioned clothing and a bowler hat holds a large lottery ticket in his hand. The man's bowler hat has a playing card stuck into the brim. The ticket is...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man labeled “LA. lottery” is wearing old-fashioned clothing and a bowler hat, and he has a handle-bar moustache. He is standing beside a raffle/lottery wire cylinder...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; Memo to accepted applicants for Mississippi Freedom Project giving current information on the growing expectation of hostility in Mississippi when hundreds of young people from other parts of...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; This collection of documents about pending voting legislation in the 1960s. On the first page, James Farmer of the Congress of Racial Equality encourages all branches of the civil rights...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Memo from Victoria Jackson Gray (Adams) to friends and supporters of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP), dated February 10, 1966. Describes the current situation in the...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Memo from the Washington office of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) to supporting organizations, dated August 30, 1965. Requests that supporters of the MFDP lobby their...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Essay written in 1964 about the Mississippi Freedom Schools and their importance to the civil rights movement. Discusses the current educational situation in Mississippi schools and how...
