From the Kate Greenaway Papers. Kate Greenaway's Almanack & Diary for 1897 by Kate Greenaway (London: J.M. Dent & Co., [1896]). illustration, watercolor (18.5 x 11.5 cm.) Signed KG. used for January page.
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; Newsletter from Amite County; discusses education-centered civil rights initiatives, including an attempt to remove the principal of Liberty's Central High School.
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; Newsletter from Amite County; discusses trial of white men for a racially-motivated beating, and local agriculture and federal farm subsidies.
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; With amendments attached to the legislative bill, the future Civil Rights Act of 1964 passes the United States Senate, but still requires concurrence from the United States House of...
From the Walter Anderson Papers.; A hand watercolored block print ('J--Jay') mounted on corrugated cardboard from Walter Anderson's An Alphabet; 12 1/2 x 14 1/2
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; The booklet is supplementary reading material for one of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee's (SNCC) adult literacy projects. The text combines many excerpts from the Old Testament...
cartoon by John J. Knudsen; A man dressed in a lab coat labeled "E.P.A." is holding a cip board in one hand and pointing at a line of mufflers connected to one another. The man is talking to another man in a suit. The mufflers are attached to a...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Freedom School student Anthony Harris sits at a table writing in a notebook at the Freedom School hosted by Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer, 1964.
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; Appendix C explains the history and platform of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP), lists the executive committee members, and sets out a plan for the Congressional challenge. ...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; Appendix A describes the history of political disenfranchisement of African Americans in Mississippi in detail and notes Civil Rights movement activities that have been taken to restore the...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Document enumerating legal restrictions on federal district judges in the South. The document advocates supplementing with a special judgeship for civil rights cases only.
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Rabbi Arthur J. Lelyveld shortly after he and fellow voter registration volunteers Lawrence Spears and David Owen were attacked by two Caucasian men from Collins, Mississippi. The assault took...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Rabbi Arthur J. Lelyveld leaves Methodist Hospital in Hattiesburg, Mississippi in a wheelchair on July 11, 1964, upon being released. Rabbi Lelyveld was hospitalized after being assaulted the...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Reprint of Stokely Carmichael's article, What we want, which had been published in The New York Review of Books. Carmichael discusses Black power, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; Mrs. Walker's autobiography was originally published in May of 1965 in The Movement, 1: (2)" In it, she describes her early life and employment history in Mississippi. She laments losing her...
From the Hazelton (Margaret J.) Freedom Summer Collection; One black-and-white photograph of the back of an injured man's head in Clarksdale, Mississippi. The injured man, possibly named Mark Fast, was an attorney from Boston, Massachusetts. ...
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...
Photograph of the 1922 Mississippi Normal College baseball team and coach. First row: J. A. McCrary, L. E. Gafford, A. H. Dempsy, N. R. Clayton, C. Files, W. C. Wailes; second row: Otis Waits, E. D. Cox, T. F. Morris, W. C. Denson, H. Hartzog;...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Document prepared for civil rights workers and their families and friends. It lists the legal justifications for federal intervention in civil rights disputes and cites specific legislation that...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Louisiana governor John McKeithen, wearing mountaineering clothing, has a coil of rope attached to his belt. He is standing at the edge of a cliff, facing away from the edge,...
