Address delivered before the Virginia State Convention by Hon. Fulton Anderson, Commissioner from Mississippi, Hon. Henry L. Benning, Commissioner from Georgia, and Hon. John S. Preston, Commissioner from South Carolina.
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 Jon Kennedy. Georgia Governor (and later Lieutenant Governor) Lester Maddox stands behind the counter of a cafeteria (restaurant). The counter is labeled "Maddox political cafeteria." Maddox...
Photograph of the May 19, 1970, Student printz with the headline: "Bond cancellation spurs demonstration" and an article about the cancellation by Julian Bond of an address he was to make on campus on Sunday, May 17. Bond cancelled his appearance...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; This photo shows a close-up of Casey Hayden, a SNCC staff member who came to Hattiesburg, Mississippi, from the SNCC headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, during Freedom Summer, 1964.
From the Adams (Victoria Gray) Papers. Constitution and by-laws of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). Printed in Atlanta, Georgia, the pamphlet consists of a preamble and seven articles that govern the proceedings of the SCLC....
Correspondence between Governor Brown and the Secretary of War, upon the right of the Georgia volunteers, in Confederate Service, to elect their own officers.
From the Map Collection. Four maps on one sheet. Map A: parts of eastern Canada, including Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Map B: New England, including New York, New Jersey, and part of Pennsylvania. Map C:...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by John Stampone. A large man stands in the doorway of a house pointing over his shoulder with a thumb. He is holding a newspaper in his other hand with the headline, "Northern congressmen accuse...
Photograph of Dr. Horace Fleming. Caption: "Dr. Fleming, who was born and raised in Georgia, shows some of his Southern style as the seventh president of the University of Southern Mississippi." This photo is featured in the 1998 Southerner...
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 AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Arthur Henrikson. A toddler (Alabama Governor George Wallace) is stacking lettered blocks to make them spell, "President." Beside Wallace is a block with a question mark on it. Another toddler...
An order written by Confederate General Robert E. Lee, dated 3 February 1864, to a division commander, General Jubal Anderson Early. Lee commends units of the Army of the Tennessee that have re-enlisted in the Confederate Army, specifically Hart's...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Composition book of Freedom School student Georgia May Byes that contains a modification of the Declaration of Independence which expresses the desires of African Americans in Mississippi...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletche. Louisiana governor Edwin Edwards is pulling on the reins of a donkey that is labeled "Uncommitted slate." The donkey's head is over a fence which has a sign that reads, "Custer's...
Resolutions: Expressive of the determination of Georgia to prosecute the present war with the utmost vigor and energy. Presented by the Chair; Laid on the table and ordered to be printed by the Congress of the Confederate States of America on 11...
