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 John Riedell. Lady Justice, blindfolded, holds her sword upright in one hand and scales in the other. The scales are labeled, "Area" and "Pop." (population) and are uneven. Supreme Court Chief...
From the Adams (Victoria Gray) Papers. Address written by Victoria Jackson Gray (Adams) for the National Conference for New Politics Convention, dated September 2, 1967, to gain support for African American voters in Mississippi. Adams requests...
From the Adams (Victoria Gray) Papers. Booklet produced by the Bolivar County Education Committee with detailed information about politics and education in Bolivar County and the state of Mississippi. Outlines the basic government structure in...
Pamphlet from the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Pamphlet distributed by the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP)" Describes the Congressional Challenge and the perceived accomplishment of the effort. Includes an...
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of a 4-H Club representative with a cow wearing a floral wreath during a ceremony for the Cattle for Greece on the Hattiesburg Victory.
From the Zwerling (Matthew) Freedom Summer Collection. Four-page document that discusses detailed plans for the development of the party, the organizational structure, and its three major challenges: Freedom registration, Freedom candidates,...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Record of the proceedings and debates of the 89th Congress, the major topic of which is the Congressional Challenge brought by the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) in response...
From the Adams (Victoria Gray) Papers. Constitution and by-laws of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). Printed in Atlanta, Georgia, the pamphlet consists of a preamble and seven articles that govern the proceedings of the SCLC....
cartoon by Arthur Henrikson; A giant sized man sits in the balcony of the Illinois legislature and smokes a cigarette; he is labeled "Syndicate Gambling" A man stands on the floor of the legislature and reads a bill that says,"Nothing to fear in...
From the Zwerling (Matthew) Freedom Summer Collection. Brochure distributed by the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) in support of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP). Discusses the requirements for participation 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...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Campaign brochure for Paul B. Johnson's 1963 Mississippi gubernatorial campaign; argues that support for the Mississippi Republican party would have disastrous effects on the lives of voters.
cartoon by Eddie Germano; A child representative of "our young" is pushed back by a jumping television. Out of the t.v. set come rays of "violence" and "bad examples." A quote from Dr. Milton Eisenhower, Chairman of Presidential Commission on...
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. One-page flyer advertising Rev. Albert C. Pegues' candidacy for Marshall County Board of Education representative. Flyer was bundled with Rita Walker's letter to Kathy Dahl dated September 26,...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 24, 1972 with Dr. William Penn Davis at his home in Jackson, Mississippi. Davis was born in Union County, Mississippi on August 5, 1903. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Mississippi College in...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on December 3, 1971 with the Honorable Charles Evers at his office in Fayette, Mississippi. Evers was born on September 11, 1922 in Decatur, Mississippi. In 1950, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in social...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on May 18, 1972 with Ms. Ruby Magee at College Hall at the University of Southern Mississippi. Magee was born in 1940 in Tylertown, Mississippi. In 1962, she received a BA in history and political science from...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on July 12, 1973 with Mr. Jerry Clower at his office in Yazoo City, Mississippi. Clower was born in 1926 at Route Four, Liberty, Mississippi. After graduating from high school, he joined the U.S. Navy. On...
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...
