From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Jimmy Carter sits on the equestrian statue in Jackson Square. He is sitting behind Andrew Jackson and is holding his hat in a similar way. Behind him is St. Louis Cathedral.
One-page document dated December 4, 1871 and drafted by the Mississippi State Legislature requesting return of Federal lands first granted in 1856 for the purpose of building the Gulf and Ship Island Railroad. The Gulf and Ship Island Railroad was...
Transcribed copy of a report by the General Legislative Committee of Mississippi based on findings from an investigation of the occupation of the University of Mississippi in 1962 by the United States Department of Justice. Action was taken in...
From the Hazelton (Margaret J.) Freedom Summer Collection; One black-and-white photograph, taken by Rev. Frazer Thomason, at the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) convention in Jackson, Mississippi. Dr. Aaron "Doc" Henry, a prominent...
From the Adickes (Sandra E.) Papers.; Photograph of Addie Mae Jackson standing beside a car. Jackson was host to Sandra Adickes in Palmers Crossing near Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer 1964.
Aerial view photograph of Jackson's Memorial Stadium during the football game between USM and Mississippi State University on November 7, 1981. The game set a record for the largest attendance at an event in Mississippi sports history. Photograph...
Aerial view photograph of Veterans Memorial stadium during a football game. Photograph also found on page 162 of Chester M. Morgan's Dearly bought, deeply treasured, published in 1987.
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Three local African American children stand in the exhibit area of the Palmers Crossing Community Center where Freedom School students' art work is on exhibit. The large sign with handprints...
Photograph of the 1971 Afro-American Cultural Society. Pictured left to right: 1st row: Dr. Robert D. Smith (advisor), Cynthia Barnes, Mattie Coleman (parliamentarian), John Price (president), Lettie Evans (secretary), Robert Williams, Samson Byrd;...
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 Political Campaign Collection. Campaign handout for Annie Flo Wilkins, candidate for re-election for Postmaster of the Legislature in Jackson, Mississippi.
From the Gordon (Albert F.) Freedom Rider Collection.; Copies of an arrest record for Albert F. Gordon and offense reports from the Jackson, Mississippi, police department dated July 9, 1961. The offense report lists names and addresses of eight...
From the Ben-Ami (Rabbi David Z.) Papers. The pamphlet explains that the Committee of Concern is an interracial, interfaith group with the goal of raising and managing funds and equipment to rebuild burned churches in the Hattiesburg area. A...
From the Adams (Victoria Gray) Papers. Address written by Victoria Jackson Gray (Adams) for the National Conference for New Politics Convention, dated September 2, 1967, to gain support for African American voters in Mississippi. Adams requests...
Photograph of the May 19, 1970, Student printz with the headline: "Bond cancellation spurs demonstration" and an article about the cancellation by Julian Bond of an address he was to make on campus on Sunday, May 17. Bond cancelled his appearance...
Photograph from the Johnston (Erle E., Jr.) Papers; Black-and-white photograph of African-American civil rights activist Charles Evers speaking into a microphone which he is holding in his hand. Evers' brother was Medgar Evers, field secretary for...
From the Whyte (Iain) Civil Right Collection. This collection contains slides from Reverend Whyte's time in Mississippi during the summer of 1964 in Greenville and Jackson. There are two groups of slides: Group A, which Rev. Whyte took himself in...
From the Adams (Victoria Gray) Papers. Newsletter (Vol. 1, no. 1) of the Child Development Group of Mississippi. Reviews the opening of 66 child development centers, the Food Stamp Program, and the visit of Senators Robert Kennedy and Joseph...
