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 Hamlett (Ed) White Folks Project Collection. Transcription of a conversation between Doug [?] and Dr. [?] Mason about the possibility of having a civil rights leadership speaker at the Rotary Club, and the potential for dialogue rather...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ronald Reagan stands in front of a taller man, Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill, who is labeled "26 new House members." In the background is the dome of the U.S. Capitol,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man [Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill?] labeled "Demo. House" is dressed as the Easter Bunny and is digging a hole beside a tree on the lawn of the White House. A large basket...
From the Political Campaign Collection. Campaign pamphlet from Jesse W. Shanks, recently re-elected as a representative from Lamar County in the state legislature, announcing his candidacy for Speaker of the House. The back contains biographical...
Copy of a typewritten newsletter, the Mantinband Megillah, from Rabbi Charles and Anna Mantinband to friends dated 1963, in which the Mantinbands discuss events in their life during the past year. Included in the letter is information about their...
Copy of a typewritten newsletter from Rabbi Charles and Anna Mantinband to friends dated December 1962, in which the Mantinbands provide an update on events in their life and family for the past year. They mention the birth of twin grandchildren, a...
Letter from Samuel J. Gholson in Verona, Mississippi, to Brigadier General Daniel Ruggles in Columbus, Mississippi, recommending Captain J. F. White instead of Major Inge for command of troops in the First Military District. Gholson was a native of...
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 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...
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...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on April 1, 1993 and January 6, 1995 with Ariel Barnes (born 1917). Mrs. Barnes was born in Forest, Mississippi, but moved to Hattiesburg shortly after. She attended Alcorn University, where she earned a...
Oral history.; Mr. George A. Stevens was born in 1910 in Forrest County, Mississippi. He attended Hattiesburg public schools but graduated from high school in Anthony, New Mexico. Mr. Stevens returned to attend The University of Southern...
Oral history.; Discusses her father, Erle Johnston. Describes his relations with Ross Barnett and his work with the State Sovereignty Commission, which she denies was ever a spy organization.
Oral history.; Dorothea Allsup was born on February 4, 1916. Her family resided in Nebraska, but they moved to Epes, Alabama and then Macon, Mississippi, when she was seventeen. While Mrs. Allsup attended high school in Macon she met her future...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on May 1, 1972 with Dr. Aaron Henry in his drugstore in Clarksdale, Mississippi. Henry was born on July 2, 1922 in Clarksdale, Mississippi. After serving in World War II, he went to Xavier College (now Xavier...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on November 14, 1995 with Dr. Barry Clemson (born 1941). He attributes his interest in civil rights work in part to his membership in the Church of the Brethren, one of the "key civil rights churches." Clemson was...
Oral history.; Dr. Charlotte Siegel Kaplan was born in Sunflower, Mississippi, on August 20, 1920, to Sadie Courland Siegel and Samuel Siegel who had emigrated from Europe at the turn of the twentieth century. In the Delta of Mississippi, the...