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 Ed Valtman. Senator Edward Kennedy, President Jimmy Carter, and Governor (Edmund) Jerry Brown stand on an athletic winner's platform showing the results of the Maine presidential primary. All...
From the Adams (Victoria Gray) Papers. Analysis of Senate bill 2988, the Internal Security Act of 1968, introduced to the Senate by Senator James Eastland. Thomas I. Emerson, professor at Yale University, deciphers the bill and its effects on all...
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. The cartoon is divided into four panels, each of which shows Massachusetts senator Ted Kennedy. In the first three panels, he is attempting to spell a state's name but getting...
cartoon by Ed Valtman; Senator George McGovern stands at the counter of a well-established dry cleaner's shop. He holds up a suit and gestures to a stain that is labeled "$1,000 for every American" He complains to the proprieter,"But that damn...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Pennsylvania senator Hugh Scott is sitting on a big gun barrel holding a popped balloon. Where the balloon popped are the words, "Cease-fire trial balloon...Pop." Shells are...
Photograph of ground breaking ceremony for the Chain Technology Center. Left to right: Aubrey Lucas, Shelby Thames, W. M. Shoemaker (IHL Board of Trustees), Lieutenant Governor Evelyn Gandy, Bobby Chain, Charles W. Moorman, Senator Nap Cassibry,...
Photograph of Cary Thrash, Herb Ivison, Liz Payne, Larry Payne, Leonard Farmer, Jim Payne, and Senator Trent Lott on their way to the NFC Championship Game in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Featured in the USM Alumni News, vol. 50, no. 4 (Spring 1997) on...
From the Johnston (Erle E., Jr.) Papers; Copy of an article addressed to the Scott County Times by Erle Johnston, Jr., also labeled as "Chapter 7, Reminiscing: How a Senator was Born." According to this document, James O. Eastland was appointed...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man labeled "Senate" is speaking in the Senate chamber, holding a paper that reads, "Debate on the anti-crime bill." Above him on a higher level in the room is a huge man...
From the Political Campaign Collection. Campaign handout for Ross Collins, candidate for U.S. Senate. Collins ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate in 1934 against Theodore Bilbo and in 1941 against Wall Doxey.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A windmill labeled "'68 election campaign" is shown in the lower part of the cartoon, and in the far distance is the horizon. The rotating arms of the windmill are labeled,...
From the Zwerling (Matthew) Freedom Summer Collection. Freedom Vote ballot listing nominees for President, Vice-President, Senator, and 2nd district Congressional seat for the Freedom Democratic Party, Democratic Party, and Republican Party.
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs; Circular about Hattiesburg by the Hattiesburg Chamber of Commerce featuring pictures of the city. Cover letter addressed to Senator Bilbo is attached.
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....
