From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Fund raising information sheet on the Mississippi Bail Loan Fund, explaining the need for bail funds for civil rights workers in Mississippi, who are subjected to repeated arrest and confinement...
A collection of ten 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 October 22, 1996 with Mrs. Josephine Clemons Bell (born 1909). Her teaching career in elementary education in the public school of Natchez-Adams County spans twenty-nine and a half years. After retiring in...
From the Adams (Victoria Gray) Papers. Report by the Southern Conference Educational Fund (SCEF) staff that highlights the efforts of the SCEF. Provides information about the causes for which the organization works, including the work in the...
From the Adams (Victoria Gray) Papers. Brochure designed by the Southern Conference Educational Fund (SCEF) to inform people of the economic problems in the South and to encourage poor whites to join forces with Blacks to work for economic and...
From the Adams (Victoria Gray) Papers. Memo from the Southern Conference Educational Fund (SCEF). Notifies interested parties of the May 13 trial of H. Rap Brown, chair of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, in New Orleans on a weapons...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Letter and brochure soliciting support for the Poor People's Fund. Describes a group of people living at Mount Beulah in Edwards, Mississippi, on land leased by the Delta Ministry as a...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on August 2, 2007 and October 9, 2007 with Edmond Boudreaux, Jr., a longtime Mississippi Gulf Coast resident and active local historian of the region. Mr. Boudreaux discusses the impact of Hurricane Katrina on...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on December 3, 1971 with the Honorable Charles Evers at his office in Fayette, Mississippi. Evers was born on September 11, 1922 in Decatur, Mississippi. In 1950, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in social...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on August 17, 1977 with Mrs. Betty Carter at her home in Greenville, Mississippi. Carter was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. She attended Newcomb College where she met her husband, Hodding Carter. Together they...
From the Hamlett (Ed) White Folks Project Collection. This memo from Jim Dombrowski to Board Members of the Southern Conference Educational Fund (SCEF) and other friends concerns fundraising to pay the living expenses of four civil rights workers...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Reimbursement form to be filled in and signed by the recipient of money from the Mississippi Bail Loan Fund.
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Assignment of bond form to be signed by the recipient of money from the Mississippi Bail Loan Fund.
From the Adams (Victoria Gray) Papers. Newsletter for Southern Conference Educational Fund (SCEF) staff, dated May 24, 1968. Includes activity updates by SCEF staff members and discusses the Deep South Project, Southern Mountain Project, and...
Photograph of WWI Memorial with inset photos of fund raisers, A.V. Hays and Kate Brown. This photo is featured in the 1924 Neka Camon on page 105; 7 x 5
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. The cartoon shows a storefront building with a large glass show window topped by an awning that reads, "Times-Picayune Doll and Toy Fund." The glass window has the letters,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by David Simpson. A very overweight elephant labeled "Okla. GOP" [Oklahoma] sits at the end of a bed, one forefoot resting on its protruding belly. With the other forefoot, it uses a toothpick to...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man who is labeled, "Warmth of compassion for others" on the arm of his coat also wears a large round pin on his coat front with a check mark and the words, "fair share...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on August 29, 1991 with Mr. Richard Boyd and on September 29, 1992 with Mrs. Earline Boyd. Mr. Boyd was born on July 21, 1916 in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. He graduated from Eureka High School in 1935. ...
