From the Major-Sowers Saw Mill Photographs Collection. Photograph of eight workers in front of the boiler shed at the Major-Sowers Sawmill Company, Tallahala site in Perry County.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Jon Kennedy. A man in judge's robes (Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas) stands in the center of a whirlwind. Rings of the wind are labeled "GOP-Dixie opposition, Pornography decisions, White...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. Two battleships on the sea face off. One is a massive ship labeled "Southern bloc" and has a huge smoking gun. The other is significantly smaller and labeled "BIW DX contract." The...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Tentative schedule for a seminar titled "The student and the South in the 60s" to be held August 30-September 5, 1965. Suggested topics include southern industrialization, education, and...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Report published by Southern Regional Council and American Civil Liberties Union. The report discusses aspects of the Southern judicial system, including inequality in sentencing, all-white...
From the McCain (William D.) Pamphlet Collection; The pamphlet presents a defense of States' Rights, and argues the states have a legal right to continue the segregationist way of life.
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Essay regarding the importance of education relevant to the needs and position of Black southerners.
From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection. Outlines some race relation issues between African Americans and white Southerners. Twenty problems are listed, including that white Southerners fear African Americans and that African Americans...
From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection. Confidential six-page newsletter by Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) contains information about arrests, violence, and harassment experienced by civil rights workers and local...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man dressed in a Colonial general's uniform is driving a car labeled, "Long-standing La. tidelands dispute." Luggage labeled "37 1/2% movement" is on the car's trunk. 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 Major-Sowers Saw Mill Photographs Collection. Photograph of three workers in the planing mill at the the Major-Sowers Sawmill Company, Tallahala site in Perry County.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man bundled up in winter clothing and accessories, including a weather vane on his hat, drives a car with a license plate that reads, "Winter '82." He is driving down a road...
Transcribed copy of a document detailing the curriculum of Freedom Schools. Begins with a Table of Contents showing the major curriculum divisions: academic, citizenship, and recreational and artistic. Also gives details of activities and materials...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 30, 1977 with the Reverend Sammie Rash (born 1942). Reverend Rash, the son of sharecroppers, has been very active in both civil rights activities and Mississippi politics, in addition to being a minister...
Oral history.; Reverend Sammie Rash was born in Sunflower County, Mississippi, on July 31, 1942. His parents were sharecroppers, and in 1949 they moved the family to the McGann plantation in Bolivar County, where Reverend Rash grew up. In 1963...
Oral history; Mrs. Ruth Evans Story was born on October 20, 1943, in Gulfport, Mississippi. She graduated from high school and attended Dillard University in New Orleans. On October 18, 1962, Ms. Ruth Evans married Almer L. Story in Gulfport....
Oral history.; Three interviews conducted on April 28, 30 and May 7, 1981 with Mr. Claude Ramsay at his office in Jackson, Mississippi. Ramsay was born in 1916 in Ocean Springs, Mississippi. He served briefly in the Civilian Conservation Corps...
Oral history.; Interview conducted in the spring of 1995 with Eberta Spinks (born 1914). In 1964, Mrs. Spinks became active in the civil rights movement. She housed civil rights workers in her home, integrated the restaurant of the Pinehurst Hotel...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by John Riedell. Hubert Humphrey and Richard Nixon are standing in front of George Wallace, who holds a paper that reads, "Poll of union membership in South...Wallace 50%...Hump 29%...Nixon 16%."...
