From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Clyde Wells. The earth is shown five times against a white background. Each schpere has the year above it, a flagpole, and a flag with lettering. The first is 1850, and the flag is labeled "1...
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 Merle Cunnington. A crowd of people stand just outside the large, open entryway of a building that is labeled "The wonderful world of tomorrow (super technology)." A sign just inside 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...
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; This report gives many accounts of bombings, shootings, and assaults perpetrated by the Ku Klux Klan in Natchez between the years of 1963 and 1965. It also mentions a court injunction placed on...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Louisiana Governor Dave Treen stands on the edge of an unfinished bridge labeled, "La.'s capital improvement needs." The bridge extends no further than the river's edge. Treen...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by John Stampone. A soldier in tall grass carrying gear and weapons expresses shock (or profanity) at the wording of a sign held by a surprised-looking person labeled “Supreme Court.” The sign...
A Bill: To be entitled, "An Act for the further Organization of the Field Artillery of the Confederate States." By Mr. Miles; Read first and second times; postponed; special order (continuing) after existing special orders; to be printed by the...
A Bill: To be entitled, " An Act to amend An Act entitled 'An Act to provide for the funding and further issue of treasury notes,' approved March 23, 1863." By Mr. Foster; Read first and second times, and referred to Special Committee on the...
A Bill: Making further regulations for the taxation of banks and bank notes, and for the confiscation of such notes held by alien enemies. By Mr. Lyon, form Committee of Ways and Means; Read first and second times, made continuing special order...
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...
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 May 18, 1972 with Ms. Ruby Magee at College Hall at the University of Southern Mississippi. Magee was born in 1940 in Tylertown, Mississippi. In 1962, she received a BA in history and political science from...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on July 12, 1973 with Mr. Jerry Clower at his office in Yazoo City, Mississippi. Clower was born in 1926 at Route Four, Liberty, Mississippi. After graduating from high school, he joined the U.S. Navy. On...
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...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on May 17, 1972 with Associate Justice Thomas Pickens Brady, of the Supreme Court of Mississippi in his chambers in Jackson, Mississippi. This is the second part of an interview conducted on March 4, 1972 with...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. The cartoon is divided into two panels. On the left side, a man stands with the Eiffel Tower in the background. He is smiling and singing, "The last time I saw Paris..." On the...
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 Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Typewritten letter from Lawrence Guyot, dated September 28, 1965, in which he reports that the challenge of the 1964 Congressional election in Mississippi was dismissed by Congress. ...
