From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Paul Szep. An old, thin man sits on a throne with a very tall back. He wears a crown and clutches ermine lined robes around him. His feet are on a cushion. Around him on the floor are three...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Ed Gamble. This cartoon is in four parts. In the first frame, Richard Nixon is speaking on the telephone to Leon Jaworski. Nixon says, "More tapes? Look, Jaworski, I've just about lost all my...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; In this memo, lawyers for the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party present and address questions that were raised regarding the legality of the 1964 Congressional Challenge. The authors cite...
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...
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...
A collection of eight 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...
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...
