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...
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. A man is driving a car toward a large intersection on the Earth. The man is labeled, "N.O. property owner voters," and the car is labeled, "$20 million bond election tomorrow,...
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...
Photograph of the Baptist Student Center during construction. Text on back of photo: "BSU Center construction is nearing completion. The building is being constructed on the original property purchased by the MS Baptist Convention early in the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Standing on a map of Louisiana, a huge man labeled "Crime (ordinary...organized...unorganized)" holds a handgun at his side and looks down on a much smaller man. The second man...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Photograph of a local African American child and other guests at the fish fry given for the volunteers by local civil rights leader Vernon Dahmer on his property in the Kelly Settlement, to the...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; A little girl identified as Della Balam stands behind a wooden post at Vernon Dahmer's fish fry for the volunteers on his property in the Kelly Settlement, to the north of Hattiesburg,...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; The sons of Reverend Robert Beech, Director of the Hattiesburg Ministers Project, reach for cold drinks in a Coca-Cola cooler at the fish fry given for the volunteers by local civil rights...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. This cartoon is in two panels. On the left side, a man relaxes in a lawn chair and reads a book in front of his home, the roof of which is labeled, "La. property tax...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Local people mingle with Freedom Summer volunteers at the fish fry given for the volunteers by local civil rights leader Vernon Dahmer on his property in the Kelly Settlement, to the north of...
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...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; One of the guests at the fish fry given for the Freedom Summer volunteers by local civil rights leader Vernon Dahmer on his property in the Kelly Settlement, to the north of Hattiesburg,...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; SNCC staffer Marion Davidson sits on the wooden bed of a truck and a man stands beside her as they relax at the fish fry given for the volunteers by local civil rights leader Vernon Dahmer on...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. An apparently naked man labeled "N.O." wears a barrel labeled, "Homestead exemption" and a pair of shoes. He stands on a sidewalk next to a brick building that has a sign...
A Bill: To be entitled, "An Act supplemental to, and amendatory of, the several acts for the sequestration of the estates, property and effects of alien enemies, and for indemnity of citizens of the Confederate States, and persons aiding the same...
A Bill: To be entitled, "An Act to provide for the settlement of certain matters of account growing out of purchases of property as alleged by the purchases for the use of the Government, by Payne & Co., in the State of Texas." By Mr. Garland, from...
A Bill: To be entitled, "An Act to amend An Act entitled, 'An Act to prevent fraud in the Quartermaster's and Commissary's Departments, and the obtaining under false pretense transportation for private property,' approved May 1st, 1863." By Mr....
A Bill: To be entitled, "An Act repealing certain abatements from the property tax and income tax, and amending the said tax laws.". By Mr. Lyon, from the Committee on Ways and Means; Read first and second times, made continuing special order after...
A Bill: To be entitled, " An Act to amend An act entitled, 'An act to regulate the destruction of property under military necessity and to provide for the indemnity thereof'." By Mr. Foster; Read the first and second times and ordered to be printed...
