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...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Knudsen. A large box labeled "South Vietnam elections" is in the foreground. The top of the box is locked with a hasp, and the box has an opening for the insertion of ballots. Behind the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher; Uncle Sam is using a pair of binoculars that read, "Poll watching" on the lenses. He is looking at a locked ballot box that reads, "Nov 4 Primary Elections."
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Men fill the front row seats of a theater. They are labeled with names of cities that are tourist destinations: "San Francisco...Los Angeles...Miami-Miami Beach...Denver...New...
Oral history. Interview conducted on March 4, 1972 with Associate Justice Thomas Pickens Brady, of the Supreme Court of Mississippi in his chambers in Jackson, Mississippi. Brady was born on August 6, 1903, in New Orleans, Louisiana. He...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Ed Valtman. White House Chief of Staff Hamilton Jordan and a bearded man (unidentified) hold a large chart labeled "Latest polls" which shows declining poll results. The bearded man points to...
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 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...
A collection of ten 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...
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 Adams (Victoria Gray) Papers. News release of a statement made on the floor of the House of Representatives by Congressman Charles McC. Mathias of Maryland, announcing his support for the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Also discusses some...
From the Adams (Victoria Gray) Papers. News release by Congressman Charles McC. Mathias, Jr., announcing his support for the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Expresses his belief that the bill is necessary to protect voting rights and abolish the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by John Riedell. Hubert Humphrey and Richard Nixon are standing in front of George Wallace, who holds a paper that reads, "Poll of union membership in South...Wallace 50%...Hump 29%...Nixon 16%."...
Oral history.; Mr. Boyce Holleman was born on February 26, 1924, in Wiggins, Mississippi. Mr. Holleman enrolled at the Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College in the fall of 1940, but transferred to the University of Mississippi to study law. In...
Oral history.; Discusses Clarence Magee's family, his responsibilities on the farm, and first memories of racism. Talks about the African American schools around Columbia, Mississippi. Describes his attempts to register to vote in Hattiesburg and...
Oral history.; Peoples discusses his presidency at Jackson State University, racism in the Marine Corps in the 1940s, the Mississippi Humanities Council, and race relations in Mississippi.
Oral history.; Interview conducted in the spring of 1995 with Eberta Spinks (born 1914). In 1964, Mrs. Spinks became active in the civil rights movement. She housed civil rights workers in her home, integrated the restaurant of the Pinehurst Hotel...
Oral history.; Discusses her childhood education, life at Alcorn State University as a college student, and her early teaching positions. Describes her voting rights lawsuit and the repercussions on her career. Expresses her opinions on school...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on April 14, 1972 and January 25, 1973 with Mississippi civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977). Hamer was a leading figure in the MFDP. She is best known for her 1964 national television...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on June 24, 1998 with J.C. Fairley, Mamie Phillips, and Charles Phillips, who were all active in the NAACP during the civil rights movement of the 1950s and the 1960s.
