Oral history.; Mrs. Lorita Nelson Jones was born on July 19, 1909, in Biloxi, Mississippi. Her mother's family were originally from New Orleans, Louisiana, of Creole heritage; her grandmother, Olivia Lewis, spoke only in French. Her father Lamar...
Oral history.; Mr. Billy Joe McCain, Sr., was born in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1936. When he was four years old, his parents divorced, and he returned with his mother to her parents' home in Grenada, Mississippi. He attended segregated schools,...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on May 8, 1996 with voter registration activist Jan Handke (born May 10, 1945). Ms. Handke was a part of the Freedom Summer Project, becoming occupied with voter registration in Vicksburg and working in the...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on 1995 November 21 with Dr. Peter Orris (born 1945). Dr. Orris participated in his first civil rights demonstration when he was only eleven. In 1964, he was recruited to participate in the Summer Project in...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. New Orleans Mayor Ernest Morial and two men stand by the edge of a stream in a woodland setting, and they are watching the stream flow by. A sign nearby is labeled, "Cutback...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ernest Morial drives a semi truck with "Mayors' salaries...Coast to coast" on the side. The cartoon caption reads, "King of the road?"
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man who delivers singing telegrams is dressed in a frayed and tattered uniform and a beanie cap. He is labeled "Recession." He holds a telegram in his hand and sings to a man...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. The cartoon is divided into two panels. On the left side, a man stands with the Eiffel Tower in the background. He is smiling and singing, "The last time I saw Paris..." On the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Louisiana governor Edwin Edwards is playing a guitar and singing while he watches cash and coins drop from a large pipe into an open truck that is labeled "1983 election kitty."...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ronald Reagan plays a guitar and sings, "Happy days are here again" in front of a facade of the White House, which is labeled "Inflation." Behind the facade, there is dark...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man labeled "Chehardy" is dressed to resemble a Mexican (vest and sombrero) and plays the guitar while sitting on a fence where a sign reads, "Entrance to Churchill Farms,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. The cartoon has two frames, upper and lower, and the cartoons are identical except for the people shown. In the upper frame Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew are in a rowboat...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A steep mountainside is labeled "'68 elections" and it has a narrow road winding around it that is barely wide enough for one car. From opposite directions come two cars, one...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eddie Germano. The Ranger 7 spacecraft is shown with a face and arms. Ranger 7 is playing a guitar and singing as it approaches its final destination, the moon. Musical notes, stars, galaxies,...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on August 20, 1997 and August 28, 1997 with Peter H. Stewart (born 1934). He began teaching school in Edwards, Mississippi, in the fall of 1961. In August 1969, he worked for Friends of Children, a Head Start...
Oral history.; Reverend Kenneth Haynes Sr. was born October 11, 1930, in Amite County, Mississippi. In 1958, he entered the ministry, enrolling in Harper Baptist College where he received a Diploma in Christian Education and a Doctorate of...
Zoya Zeman's senior thesis was written after her participation in the Mississippi Freedom Project in the summer of 1964. Putting her work into context, she begins with a description of the background history of Mississippi. Zeman then recounts her...
From the Hazelton (Margaret J.) Freedom Summer Collection; Two-page typewritten document titled Songs of the Southern Freedom Movement. Lyrics for eight songs reflect the political situation in the South with references to freedom riders, Ross...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 23, 1977 with Mr. Jimmy Swan. Swan was born in Cullman County, Alabama. He ran away from home when he was thirteen or fourteen and ended up in Wayne County, Mississippi. Swan sang in nightclubs and...
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...
