From the Ben-Ami (Rabbi David Z.) Papers. This small slip of paper advocates hate as a positive virtue and labels persons as fence straddlers if they will not commit to active involvement in hate groups. The paper instructs recipients 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...
From the Hamlett (Ed) White Folks Project Collection; This flyer outlines the plans of a group called Assembly of Unrepresented People to gather at the House of Representatives in Washington, D. C. to protest the US involvement in Vietnam. It also...
Photograph of three football fans with the letters U, S, and M painted on their chests. The photo is from the 1992 Southerner yearbook, page 29. The caption in the yearbook reads: "Student involvement is the ultimate spirit booster to those who...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. A fireman labeled "U.S. involvement" climbs a ladder that leans against a very tall building (one that is taller than any other in this drawing). The top of the building is shrouded...
From the Adams (Victoria Gray) Papers. Chronological outline of the involvement of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in the civil rights movement from 1955-1968.
From the Mantinband (Rabbi Charles) Papers. Lecture delivered by Rabbi Charles Mantinband on April 16, 1962, at the First Annual George Brussel Memorial Lecture held at the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue in New York, New York. Mantinband discusses...
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 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 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...
Finding aid for manuscript collection. ; Information concerning David Owen's involvement in the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project, including personal correspondence, newspaper clippings, a photograph, and information concerning various civil...
Finding aid for manuscript collection.; Items relating to Wallace Roberts and his involvement in the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project. Collection includes manuscripts of articles and letters written by Roberts; scanned images of photographs;...
Caption: Paul's involvement with campus life includes fun moments, like "getting arrested" during a Jail Bail for charity. No word on who put up the money to spring him. Photograph featured in the USM Alumni News, vol. 46, no. 2 (Fall 1993) on page...
Copy of a typewritten newsletter, the Mantinband Megillah, from Rabbi Charles and Anna Mantinband to friends dated 1964, in which the Mantinbands discuss their life in Texas. While they return to Mississippi occasionally upon the invitation of...
From the Margaret Thatch Hinton Collection. Typewritten letter from R.S. Wilson thanking participants for their involvement in the 1928 tour of the "Know Mississippi Better" train.
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; This document consists of three previously published news stories about Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) field secretary and Mississippi native Samuel Block. The articles...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. A man in a darkened movie theater rises from his seat and steps into the aisle to leave, hat in hand. On the screen is a film or newsreel titled, "Thailand involvement" showing a...
From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection. Cover memo from the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) to friends of MFDP explaining upcoming activities, requesting financial and political support, and transmitting a four-page report....
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Memo from Betty Garman (Robinson), Northern Coordinator for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), to friends of SNCC, campus contacts and others, dated October 27, 1964. ...
From the Paul B. Johnson Family Papers. Erle Johnston, Jr., director of the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission, writes to Governor Paul B. Johnson and Lieutenant Governor Carroll Gartin on 5 May 1964, concerning the dismissal of Dr. A.D....
