From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Riedell. In the upper frame of this cartoon, a U.S. soldier is on the ground with his rifle. He looks up over his shoulder as a flare lights up the night sky. The track of the flare is...
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...
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 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...
cartoon by John Riedell; A wreath of flowers labeled "Holt" are floating on the ocean waves. Four stars form the shape of a cross in the night sky overhead.
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; This photograph shows a young male Freedom Summer volunteer pointing to a bullet hole in the grille of the Saab automobile in which photographer Herbert Randall rode from the SNCC Orientation...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ronald Reagan is standing at the edge of a landmass (United States), and the U.S. Capitol dome is seen behind him under a night sky with a moon (left side of the cartoon). At...
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Written by Clement C. Moore ; made into a book and illustrated by W.W. Denslow in 1902. Published in Chicago by M.A. Donohue, in 1902.
Image of a bumper sticker for the Gulf Coast campus of the University of Southern Mississippi . Featured in the USM Alumni News, vol. 43, no. 1 (Summer 1990), p. 32.
From the AAEC Editorial Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A shivering Uncle Sam is outdoors in the snow at night, and the snow is labeled "Freeze movement." Uncle Sam is standing outside a brick building with a large window into the kitchen....
cartoon by Richard Wallmeyer; It is night time in a leafless forest. A witch labeled "Revolution" stands in the doorway of a gingerbread house nestled within the trees. With a crooked finger she beckons a boy and a girl to come into the house. ...
cartoon by Eddie Germano; An "area town hall" is having "budget meetings." Bursting out of the roof is a missle labeled "tax rates." The missile "zooms" out of the building into the night sky.
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs. One-story clapboard house in which Jake Kilrain reportedly spent the night before his bare-knuckle fight with John L. Sullivan on July 8, 1889.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Ed Valtman. President Gerald Ford stands beside a disheveled Uncle Sam, who is sitting in a chair. Ford's hands are behind his back and he is listening intently to Uncle Sam, who says, "I have...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 24, 1972 with Dr. William Penn Davis at his home in Jackson, Mississippi. Davis was born in Union County, Mississippi on August 5, 1903. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Mississippi College in...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on December 3, 1971 with the Honorable Charles Evers at his office in Fayette, Mississippi. Evers was born on September 11, 1922 in Decatur, Mississippi. In 1950, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in social...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on May 18, 1972 with Ms. Ruby Magee at College Hall at the University of Southern Mississippi. Magee was born in 1940 in Tylertown, Mississippi. In 1962, she received a BA in history and political science from...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on July 12, 1973 with Mr. Jerry Clower at his office in Yazoo City, Mississippi. Clower was born in 1926 at Route Four, Liberty, Mississippi. After graduating from high school, he joined the U.S. Navy. On...
