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...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on August 2, 2007 and October 9, 2007 with Charles Benvenutti, a CPA in Bay St. Louis, MS. He describes his experience during and after Hurricane Katrina.
Transcribed copy of a speech given by Victoria Jackson Gray (Adams) during her campaign for the United States Senate in 1964. Discusses Section I, Title I of the Civil Rights Bill and its effects on African Americans in Mississippi. Also describes...
Transcribed copy of a document detailing the curriculum of Freedom Schools. Begins with a Table of Contents showing the major curriculum divisions: academic, citizenship, and recreational and artistic. Also gives details of activities and materials...
Materials in this collection were donated by William M. Colmer: First accession-1970. Additional information online at: http://www.lib.usm.edu/legacy/archives/m024.htm
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Ed Valtman. A hippopotamus with the long ears and brush tail of a donkey and labeled "94th Democratic Congress" stands in a large, round circus or zoo cage with its mouth wide open. It is...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. A man labeled "Congress" stands in the crossfire of two giant gun barrels, which have fired a barrage of letters at the man. The smoke from the gun barrel labeled "Gun lobby and...
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...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on October 24, 1978 with Mr. Nathaniel H. Lewis at his home in McComb, Mississippi. Lewis was born in McComb, Mississippi. In 1928, Lewis and his father organized the McComb Independent Lodge NO. 846 of the...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on November 7, 1979 with Mrs. Minnie Ripley on the street named after her, Ripley Street, in Mayersville, Mississippi. Ripley was born on August 22, 1900 in Vicksburg, Mississippi. She attended public schools in...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; This collection of documents about pending voting legislation in the 1960s. On the first page, James Farmer of the Congress of Racial Equality encourages all branches of the civil rights...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; This report describes 1965 voting legislation in Sunflower County that did away with literacy tests in the voter registration process. The report mentions the violent reactions of some...
Booklet from the Johnston (Erle E., Jr.) Papers; Booklet distributed by the Coordinating Committee for Fundamental American Freedoms in an effort to explain the origin and purpose of the Civil Rights Act of 1963. The authors argue that the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. An policeman dressed in an old-fashioned uniform carries a baton labeled "Archaic Sunday laws." The policeman stands in front of a store naned Hardwick's Hardware. The New...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A young man labeled "Impressionable youth" rests with chin on fist and appears contemplative. Above him is the large word, "Smut," and falling from above him are many pages and...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man who appears to be a gangster stands in front of the U.S. Supreme Court building. He smiles as he reads the words on a paper held in front of him by a long arm in a...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man with a bomb for a head, labeled "Bombings" holds a pipe wrench in one hand. Around him are the words, "Law violations...Racketeering." Behind him is a tourism sign that...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Ed Valtman. A large bird's nest labeled "11-state region" sits on the branch of a tall pine tree. The nest is full of hungry baby birds with beaks open to be fed. An adult eagle has flown to...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on June 18, 2007 with Margaret Alfonso, the Senior Chancery Court Judge for Hancock, Harrison, and Stone counties. She discusses her experience with Hurricane Katrina on the Gulf Coast.
Oral history.; An interview with Sister Jacqueline Howard conducted on May 30, 2007. Principal at Our Lady Academy in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, Howard describes the impact of Hurricane Katrina on the school and the community of Bay St. Louis.
