From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; This document discusses the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) Congressional Challenge and the Voting Rights Act of 1965." It explains that if the act passes, but the election challenge...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; The brochure discusses the use of food stamps and the unequal distribution of commodities in Mississippi, lists the food categories from which everyone should eat to maintain physical health,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Ed Valtman. Richard Nixon, Eugene McCarthy, and Robert Kennedy, drawn to resemble teenagers, are standing in front of a booth at a carnival or fair. The booth is labeled "Lyndon's stand" and...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; Mike Miller, of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.); expresses his vision of the role the Medical Committee for Human Rights (MCHR) should play in Mississippi and in California.
From the Hazelton (Margaret J.) Freedom Summer Collection; One black-and-white photograph, taken by Rev. Frazer Thomason, of three Freedom Summer volunteers in Clarksdale, Mississippi. From left to right: David Batzka, Martha Davis and Margie...
From the Hazelton (Margaret J.) Freedom Summer Collection; Three-page typewritten sermon authored by Rev. James N. Porter, pastor of Woodmere Methodist Church in Detroit, Michigan. Rev. Porter's sermon relates the experiences of the African...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eddie Germano. Arthur Goldberg, dressed in a football uniform and carrying a football labeled "U.S.," is rushing toward the entrance of the United Nations building. The cartoon caption reads,...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; This is an early draft of one of Michael Miller's letters to the editor of the San Francisco Chronicle, which explains the national press's misinterpretation of the phrase "Black power" and...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Louisiana governor John McKeithen, dressed as a Roman, drives a chariot labeled, "Gov.'s additional 1 cent state sales tax hopes." Three horses pull the chariot, and they are...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Article from unidentified magazine about athe Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC); discusses efforts by organized labor and the federal government to weaken or destroy the group.
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 Eldon Pletcher. Louisiana governor John McKeithen and a man labeled "Par" sit under a large tree, apart from each other, and look back at each other over their shoulders. On the tree trunk...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Federal grand jury records of one count of conspiracy and three counts of murder against Cecil Ray Price, Edgar Ray Killen, and 16 other men in the deaths of James Earl Chaney, Andrew Goodman,...
