From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Knudsen. A boat labeled "Thailand" flying a pennant labeled "Independence" is caught in a whirlpool, the center of which is labeled "Vietnam conflict." Superimposed on the whirlpool is the...
Photograph of football team members and a coach [?] along the sidelines at the Independence Bowl in 1989. Photograph found in the 1989 Southerner yearbook on page 139.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Bob Taylor. President Jimmy Carter wrestles with a sticky blob of tar drawn to resemble a reclining human form wearing an Arab-style head covering. Carter uses a large pair of scissors labeled...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. An angry, snarling tiger labeled, "Communist aggression in Vietnam" is surrounded by speech bubbles with words from people outside the cartoon frame. The words are, "It's a...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Statement issued by candidates of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) Clifton Whitley, Ralthus Hayes, Edwin King, Clinton Collier, and Lawrence Guyot, announcing their...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Palmers Crossing Declaration of Independence emphasizes parts of the United States Constitution that pertain to human and civil rights. Also gives a general list of grievances from...
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 Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Transcribed copy of an essay written by Freedom School student Vernon Lee Austin. The essay is a modification of the Declaration of Independence written from the perspective of an...
Transcribed copy of a statement, presumably written by a Freedom School teacher, dated July 9, 1964. Discusses the teaching methods used in Freedom Schools, particularly using the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution to...
Transcribed copy of an essay written by a Freedom School volunteer. Describes the locations of the Freedom Schools, subjects taught, enrollment, activities, as well as the students' concerns regarding discrimination. Also discusses the burdens of...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Gene Basset. A woman fortune-teller sits at a table before a crystal ball. Her head scarf is labeled "Romania," and the crystal ball is labeled "Independence." Nikita Khrushchev, wearing...
Booklet from the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Transcribed copy of a booklet containing excerpts from and interpretations of the following documents: the Declaration of Independence, the United States Constitution, a speech...
From the Emilie and Marie Stapp Collection. Photograph of a soldier and his family at the "Glory to France" celebration of French independence, at Westchester Gardens, home of Izanna Chamberlain on Grand Ave., in Des Moines, Iowa.
From the Emilie and Marie Stapp Collection. Photograph of three girls at the "Glory to France" celebration of French independence, at Westchester Gardens, home of Izanna Chamberlain on Grand Ave., in Des Moines, Iowa.
From the Quantrill (William Clarke) Research Collection; Letter from Captain William H. Gregg to William E. Connelley, regarding Gregg's appointment as Deputy Sheriff of Independence, Missouri, and reunion of guerilla band.
Resolutions: Of the State of Texas, concerning peace, reconstruction, and independence. Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed by the Congress of the Confederate States of America on 19 January 1865.
Letter, dated March 8, 1864, was written by W.L. Chatham to "sis," who the donor has identified as Nancy Elizabeth Searcy. Chatham is writing from the mountains of Jefferson County, Tennessee, where he is in the Confederate Army guarding Bull's...
Joint Resolution: Defining the position of the Confederate States, and declaring the determination of the Congress and the people thereof to prosecute the war till their independence is acknowledged. Senate Bill, No. 16.
Oral history.; Interview conducted on October 21, 1996 with Mr. Charles Cobb (born 1943) in Washington, D.C. In the summer of 1962, he was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) field secretary in Ruleville, Mississippi, where he and...
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...
