From the Adams (Victoria Gray) Papers. This two-part document includes a copy of a press release given by the Young Democrats Club of the University of Illinois regarding the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. A copy of a speech given by...
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...
cartoon by John Riedell; A young man in a college graduation gown is sitting at a table daydreaming. He is holding a spoon, and his mortar board (graduation cap) is filled with tiny, book-shaped cereal; it is sitting on the table in front of him. ...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Massachusetts senator Ted Kennedy is shown as a boxer who has taken a beating in the ring. One eye is blackened, and his face is covered in bandages labeled with state...
cartoon by John Riedell; A couple on a picnic sit on a hill that is littered with trash. A squirrel tugs on the man's shirt, points to the trash, and asks,"Well, how would you like this on your living room rug?" The trees in the background of 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...
cartoon by John Riedell; A newspaper's banner reads,"The Wetter Forecast." The headlines are:"Possibility Of Worst Floods In History Of Midwest,"Record Snowfalls Expected To Begin To Melt Next Week," and "Illinois Among States Most Affected."
A portfolio of original photographic views of the great World's Fair and its treasures of art, including a graphic representation of the famous Midway Plaisance; Volume 1, Number 8. A photographic and historical representation of the "magic city"...
A portfolio of original photographic views of the great World's Fair and its treasures of art, including a graphic representation of the famous Midway Plaisance; Volume 1, Number 16. A photographic and historical representation of the "magic city"...
A portfolio of original photographic views of the great World's Fair and its treasures of art, including a graphic representation of the famous Midway Plaisance; Volume 1, Number 9. A photographic and historical representation of the "magic city"...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Independent presidential candidate John Anderson stands near two trees labeled "Reagan" and "Carter." Both trees are tapped to collect sap, with a bucket hanging from each tap....
cartoon by Arthur Henrikson; There is "something missing" on the "1966-67 model" of the "Illinois schools" car. Where one of the front tires should be, a paper reads,"shortage of qualified teachers." A man worridly looks through a display window...
From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection. A Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) poster. Photo by Danny Lyon of John Lewis with two others demonstrating at the "all white" swimming pool in Cairo Illinois in the summer of 1962....
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Accounts and evaluation of activities during the residential freedom school experiment, a two-part program which took place in Chicago, Illinois, and Cordele, Georgia.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Riedell. Ho Chi Minh sits in a chair reading a newspaper with the headline "Cool weather could drive doves to southern Ill" [Illinois]. The cartoon caption reads, "Personally, I'm against...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; The 120 African-American members of the Panola County Okra Cooperative initially produced and sold okra mainly in Memphis, Tennessee, markets, but future plans are to produce and sell other cash...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on June 12, 2008 with Rev. S.V. and Virginia Adolph of Gulfport, MS. Mr. Adolph is a pastor at First Missionary Baptist Church in Gulfport and they discuss the church's role in recovery after Hurricane Katrina.
Transcribed copy of a typewritten document about the experiences of Jill Wakeman (Goodman) during her stay in Mississippi in the summer of 1966, including her motives for going to Mississippi and the civil rights work she did there. Describes Mount...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on June 18, 2007 with Margaret Alfonso, the Senior Chancery Court Judge for Hancock, Harrison, and Stone counties. She discusses her experience with Hurricane Katrina on the Gulf Coast.
