From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Ed Valtman. A large bird's nest labeled "11-state region" sits on the branch of a tall pine tree. The nest is full of hungry baby birds with beaks open to be fed. An adult eagle has flown to...
cartoon by Allen Johnson; Two sieves labeled "Federal Income Tax" are held in midair by a person whose cuff links are labeled "IRS" One of the sieves is very fine-meshed and the other has mesh with very large holes. The large-meshed sieve is...
One-page document dated December 4, 1871 and drafted by the Mississippi State Legislature requesting return of Federal lands first granted in 1856 for the purpose of building the Gulf and Ship Island Railroad. The Gulf and Ship Island Railroad was...
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 AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by John Stampone. An astronaut is shown standing on the moon, and the moon rests in the palm of a giant hand. Clouds conceal all but the hand and forearm of the person holding the moon. The earth...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by John Stampone. Lyndon Johnson stands listening to a man labeled "Congress." Johnson holds a piece of paper in one hand with the heading "State of the Union" and on it are the words,...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; Newsletter from Amite County; discusses trial of white men for a racially-motivated beating, and local agriculture and federal farm subsidies.
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 John Stampone; A giant-sized, shabbily dressed hobo sits on the steps of the Capitol building. His hat, labeled "Left-over problems," is pulled down low over his eyes. A second man carrying a briefcase labeled "91st Congress" walks up...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by John Stampone. Five men dressed in Santa Claus costumes stand on a street corner under a street sign labeled "Anti-poverty program street." Each is ringing a bell, and four stand beside...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Document enumerating legal restrictions on federal district judges in the South. The document advocates supplementing with a special judgeship for civil rights cases only.
cartoon by John Stampone; A naked man runs down a neighborhood street toward a post box. The man holds two envelopes in his hand, extended toward the post box. One envelope is addressed "Internal Revenue Service," and the other one is addressed...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Document prepared for civil rights workers and their families and friends. It lists the legal justifications for federal intervention in civil rights disputes and cites specific legislation that...
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...
Booklet from the Johnston (Erle E., Jr.) Papers; Booklet distributed by the Coordinating Committee for Fundamental American Freedoms in an effort to explain the origin and purpose of the Civil Rights Act of 1963. The authors argue that the...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Memorandum describing the legal basis of the Federal government's authority in dealing with civil rights issues, whether by court action or force.
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Brief memorandum regarding the legal authority of the federal government in matters related to civil rights. According to the memo, the federal government has the authority in court to...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Stampone. Richard Nixon has lassoed together a man labeled "Special interest politics" and three cylindrical characters with faces labeled "Air pollution; Water pollution; Pesticide...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by John Stampone. Lyndon Johnson is shown dressed as a colonial Minuteman. Standing on a statue base, he points a long rifle at a man labeled "Fed. [Federal] employee." Thirteen stars surround the...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Chronology of communications among FBI agents, the Mississippi Highway Patrol, the U.S. Justice Department, and others during the first days of the disappearance of Andrew Goodman, James Chaney,...
