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 Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; This document records vote tallies for the 1964 "Freedom Vote" supported by the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP)" The "Freedom Vote" was designed to demonstrate African American...
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; Ayatollah Khomeini is stating, "Naturally we have every reason to expect an honorable settlement to the remaining provisions of the hostage release agreement." At the edge of...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on January 23, 1973 with Mr. William Dukes in his office in Gulfport, Mississippi. Dukes was born in the Sullivans' Hollow area near Raleigh, in Smith County, Mississippi on January 15, 1927. After his discharge...
Finding aid for manuscript collection. ; The collection consists of eight letters of personal and professional correspondence, four newsletters, a legal document, a press release, and a White Folks Project (WFP) daily report. The items date from...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ayatollah Khomeini stands at the open door of a refrigerator that has frozen over. The freezer door has a large button labeled "Release hostages" and is also labeled "Defrost...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A policeman labeled, "Under-staffed police" stands under a night sky with a city skyline in the background. Club in hand, he is watching a man watching in the foreground of the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and another Iranian man sit on the floor in front of a wall covered with tally marks. The wall is labeled "395th day," and the second man holds a...
Letter from Lewis McNeely in Water Valley, Mississippi, to Rev. Eli F. Cooley of Trenton, New Jersey, dated 10 March 1849, requesting release from the New Brunswick Presbytery so that he can preach to two congregations in the Chickasaw Presbytery...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; News release by the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) announcing plans for the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project, which will be focused on political education and voter...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; News release from "Southern Reporting Service" on the positive and negative effects the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Project had in Mississippi.
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...
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 six 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...
