From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs; Photograph of members of the 152nd Infantry during World War I. Some are on horseback and others are on foot.
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 AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Clyde Wells. A battleship, USS Ford, is moving through a lock in the Panama Canal. Some of the gun's ships point forward, and others point to left and right. From right to left across the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eddie Germano. Richard Nixon and a large grouip of men, including Nelson Rockefeller, Ronald Reagan, and George Romney, have been fighting. Each has been wounded, but Nixon is the winner. 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...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; This report gives many accounts of bombings, shootings, and assaults perpetrated by the Ku Klux Klan in Natchez between the years of 1963 and 1965. It also mentions a court injunction placed on...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Volunteer Barbara Schwartzbaum, who was a teacher in the Freedom School at Morning Star Baptist Church, and local African American residents sing during Freedom Summer in Hattiesburg,...
From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection.; Photograph taken in September 1964 of Carolyn Lane, an unidentified man, five unidentified women, and one unidentified child. It shows the group standing in front of the Ruleville Community Center....
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Local African-American residents and volunteers gather in the parking lot of St. John United Methodist Church in Palmers Crossing, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer, 1964. Local...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eddie Germano. A large book is labeled "Wave of published memoirs by late Pres. Kennedy associates." A man labeled "Dedicated officials" is lying flat between the pages of the book, with arms...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Chronology of communications among FBI agents, the Mississippi Highway Patrol, the U.S. Justice Department, and others during the first days of the disappearance of Andrew Goodman, James Chaney,...
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Retold by R. Marriott Watson, L.L. Weldon, Emily Bennett, A.M. Hoyer, & others. Published in London by Nister and in New York by E.P. Dutton, in 1870. Illustrations signed: E. Nister. Title page...
Brochure from the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Brochure published by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) inviting college students, clergymen, laypersons, and businessmen to participate in various summer projects sponsored...
Photograph of President Aubrey Lucas and others at the Cook Library ground breaking ceremony. Also featured in the 1993 Southerner yearbook on page 50.
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 Eldon Pletcher. Edwin Edwards and others dressed as blue collar workers are standing in an office with many desks and office workers. The sign above the desks reads, "La. Environmental...
From the Milton Meltzer Papers.; The color proof of the cover for Milton Meltzer's Food: How We Hunt and Gather It, How We Grow and Eat It, How We Buy and Sell It, How We Preserve and Waste It and How Some Have Too Much and Others Have Too Little...
From the Milton Meltzer Papers.; A letter from Jean R. Reynolds with a sketch of the final cover design attached to it (January 26, 1998). The letter and sketch are from Milton Meltzer's Food: How We Grow and Eat It, How We Buy and Sell It, How We...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; Volume 2 of the Freedom Flame includes articles by McEvans High School students in Shaw, Mississippi. The articles report the work that members of the Mississippi Student Union (MSU) are doing...
