cartoon by John Riedell; A man labeled North Korea is using a long stick to prod a hornet's nest shaped like a missile. The nest is resting on a branch of a tree labeled "tree of liberty."
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 John Knudsen. Leonid Brezhnev, holding a club and labeled "USSR," is running toward a cat labeled "Czechoslovakia" that is crouched before a bowl of milk labeled "Freedom." Milk drips from the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Roy Carless. Richard Nixon's face appears on the body of the Statue of Liberty. His expression is grim. Instead of the torch, Nixon swirls a club in the air. The book in his other arm is...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. List of grievances from the students of Central High School in Liberty, Mississippi. They call for the integration of both the school and the school administration; the quality of the library,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Dennis Renault. The Statue of Liberty is shown very pregnant. Her abdomen is labeled, "Equal rights amendment."
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. A report on the civil rights movement in the South written by Tom Hayden, Southern Field Secretary for the Students for a Democratic Society. Includes a history of SNCC and then focuses mostly...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Stampone. A booted leg labeled "Soviets" moves to stomp on a flame labeled "Quest for freedom." The flame burns from a torch that is set into ground marked by a gravestone labeled...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on October 6, 2006 with Fred Dunaway and Caroline Dunaway. Residents of Back Bay, Biloxi, Mr. & Mrs. Dunaway discuss their experiences during and after Hurricane Katrina.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on June 18, 1980 with Charles Hudson Griffin (born 1926). Griffin served in the office of U. S. Congressman John Bell Williams until 1968 when he campaigned for the position himself. He served three terms...
Transcribed copy of an essay on African-American history from 1900-1964, written by Otis Pease for Mississippi Freedom Project workers. Includes brief biographies of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois, and mentions the Myrdal study.
Memo from Virginia Steele, co-coordinator of the Mississippi Summer Project libraries, to librarians, dated July 28, 1964. Discusses improvements to the library collections, services offered, and various projects within the libraries.
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.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on June 16, 2008 with Rod Dickson-Rishel, pastor of the Mississippi City United Methodist Church. Reverend Dickson-Rishel discusses his experiences during and after Hurricane Katrina.
From the Zoya Zeman Freedom Summer Collection. Transcribed copy of the diary of Dean Hay, a Presbyterian minister from Nebraska, in which he details his trip to Hattiesburg, Mississippi, in February of 1964. The goal of this trip was to aid in the...
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...
From the Belcher (Granville W. and Mary Caroline) Letters. Granville W. Belcher, a farmer from Martinsville, Henry County, Virginia, served in company F, 57th Virginia Infantry during the Civil War. Belcher writes to his wife, Mary Caroline, on...
