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 Jon Kennedy. Georgia Governor (and later Lieutenant Governor) Lester Maddox stands behind the counter of a cafeteria (restaurant). The counter is labeled "Maddox political cafeteria." Maddox...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Draft, with editorial marks and instructions, of a speech or monologue by Robert Moses. Moses discusses many topics, including Mississippi civil rights activism in the early 1960s, current...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man holding a newspaper is looking back and forth between it and a clock on the wall. The clock face reads, "Election year." The newspaper headlines read, "State of the Union...
From the Maud and Miska Petersham Papers. Notes and typescript (missing page 8) of acceptance speech for the 1946 Caldecott Medal award for THE ROOSTER CROWS: A BOOK OF AMERICAN RHYMES AND JINGLES by Maud
and Miska Petersham (New York: ...
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 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...
Booklet from the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Transcribed copy of a booklet containing excerpts from and interpretations of the following documents: the Declaration of Independence, the United States Constitution, a speech...
cartoon by Jim Orton; A man stands at a desk in a nearly empty chamber of the House of Representatives: there are a few figures in other desks in the room, in poses that would indicate boredom or sleep. The man poised to read his speech says to...
A collection of eight 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...
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 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 March 4, 1972 with Associate Justice Thomas Pickens Brady, of the Supreme Court of Mississippi in his chambers in Jackson, Mississippi. Brady was born on August 6, 1903, in New Orleans, Louisiana. He...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on May 17, 1972 with Associate Justice Thomas Pickens Brady, of the Supreme Court of Mississippi in his chambers in Jackson, Mississippi. This is the second part of an interview conducted on March 4, 1972 with...
Finding aid for manuscript collection. ; The collection consists of pamphlets, books, reports and speeches concerning communism, fascism, civil rights, desegregation, and other race-related matters collected by William D. McCain. The collection...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Jim Ivey. Four men carry large placards, each with one letter, "H...I...G...H." The first H placard has "-Kelly" at the bottom left of it. The I placard has "-Speech writer" and the G placard...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Typewritten letter from Nancy Ellin to the editor of the Gazette, dated December 10, 1964, in reaction to a speech given by acting Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach. Ellin voices her...
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. Two-page letter written by Ned Opton, begun on November 22, 1966 and continued on December 10, addressed to Kathy (Dahl) and John (presumed to be her first husband John Cummings Tappiener). Opton...
From the Johnston (Erle E., Jr.) Papers; Copy of a typed letter from William J. Simmons to Governor Ross R. Barnett, dated May 6, 1969, written in response to a speech by Barnett concerning James Meredith and integration at the University of...
From the Zwerling (Matthew) Freedom Summer Collection. Typewritten letter from Congressman William F. Ryan to Dr. Israel Zwerling dated June 24, 1964. Ryan relates his efforts to involve the President, Attorney General, and other Federal...
