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 June 10, 1994 with Fred Clark Sr. (born 1943). Mr. Clark grew up in the segregated society of Jackson, Mississippi. He was educated in Jackson, attending Smith Robertson Elementary School, Rowan Junior High,...
From the Political Campaign Collection. Political handout from Dennis Murphree, expressing his appreciation to voters following the 8 August 1939 election where he elected for the third time as Mississippi's Lieutenant Governor. According to the...
From the AAEC Editorial Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A witch flies on a giant broom above buildings of New Orleans, with a huge moon in the background. Billboards and placards on the buildings are political advertisements for local...
Photocopy of a two-page typed letter from Nancy Ellin that is undated and not addressed to a particular person. Nancy writes of a visit from Joe's friend, Yale professor Dick Bernstein, and Nancy teaching her Freedom School students about the...
From the Political Campaign Collection. Political campaign handout for James K. Vardaman, who served in the US Senate from 1913-1919, when he was not re-elected. He attempted to run again un 1922, but was defeated in the Democratic primary.
From the Political Campaign Collection. Postcard for the political campaign of former Mississippi Governor Martin Sennett (Mike) Connor, send by O.D. Loper, the campaign manager. The postcard lists times of radio broadcasts featuring Mike Connor....
From the Political Campaign Collection. Political cartoon about Theodore Bilbo and Ross Collins that was distributed by the Lauderdale County Doxey Committee of Wall Doxey's senatorial campaign.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Vic Runtz. Gerald Ford sits at a desk in an office and holds a newspaper with the headline, "Swift changes in leadership: Britain, France, Portugal, W. Germany." Richard Nixon has come through...
Oral history.; Miss Eleanor Sinclair was born and reared in Pass Christian, Mississippi. She completed the eighth grade, which was the highest grade a black student could complete in public schools at Pass Christian at that time. She worked at...
Oral history.; Ms. Sarah Bernice Arnold was born January 25, 1913, in Saltillo, Mississippi. She lived through the Depression and the closing of the banks in the 1930s, at which time she went to work sewing in a factory in Tupelo. Her husband,...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; The report gives details about the economic shut out of poor African Americans that occurred during the 1960s due to greater plantation mechanization. The report includes transcribed meetings...
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.
From the Political Campaign Collection. Campaign handout for Roland B. Wall, candidate for United States Senate in 1942. The back contains biographical information.
From the Political Campaign Collection. Campaign handout for Fielding L. Wright, candidate for Governor of Mississippi. The Pontotoc County Campaign Committee for Fielding L. Wright created this handout for the first primary election,held on 5...
From the Political Campaign Collection. Pamphlet endorsing the re-election of Walter F. George as a member of the U.S. Senate from Georgia. The pamphlet contains endorsements and positive statements from newspaper editors in Georgia.
