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...
A printed copy of an address by Thomas Smith Grimk’e at a religious meeting in Charleston, South Carolina on 29 March 1831. In his comments Grimk’e focuses upon the resolution of the American Sunday School Union on the issue of Sunday Schools...
From the Ray Cruz Papers.; Dummy pages (pp. 17 & 20) from Judith Viorst's Alexander, Who Used to be Rich Last Sunday (1978), with illustrations by Ray Cruz; 20 x 7 1/2
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...
cartoon by Eddie Germano; A mailman delivers mail on Monday and a dog growls at him. The mailman says,"Here comes m'pal again with th'usual greeting!" On Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday the dog runs after the mailman and bites at his...
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 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...
Photograph of the May 19, 1970, Student printz with the headline: "Bond cancellation spurs demonstration" and an article about the cancellation by Julian Bond of an address he was to make on campus on Sunday, May 17. Bond cancelled his appearance...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. An policeman dressed in an old-fashioned uniform carries a baton labeled "Archaic Sunday laws." The policeman stands in front of a store naned Hardwick's Hardware. The New...
Photograph of an editorial cartoon entitled, "Sunday Afternoon Visitors." Also found in Dearly Bought, Deeply Treasured on page 24, and in the 1920 Neka Camon yearbook on page 61; 6 1/2 x 4 1/2
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Two boxes are stacked on top of each other, each labeled, "Vaccine...This end up." One box also has a sign attached that reads, "Orleans-St. Bernard K.O. measles...
From the Kate Greenaway Papers. Autograph postcard signed. 1 p. (11 x 7.5 cm.) To Mrs. Miller from Kate Greenaway at Hampstead dated Saturday [12 November 1892].
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A voter stands before a curtained voting booth that has a sign that reads, "Vote on 2 proposed constitutional amendments." Above the voting booth on the wall is a sign that...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. New Orleans Mayor Ernest Morial carries a briefcase labeled "Joint ventures to benefit all." A paper sticking out of the case is labeled “Regional transit." Morial is standing...
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 December 3, 1971 with the Honorable Charles Evers at his office in Fayette, Mississippi. Evers was born on September 11, 1922 in Decatur, Mississippi. In 1950, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in social...
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 January 23, 1973 with Mr. William Dukes in his office in Gulfport, Mississippi. Dukes was born in the Sullivans' Hollow area near Raleigh, in Smith County, Mississippi on January 15, 1927. After his discharge...
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...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man sits in a chair in his living room, a television in front and a tray of snacks beside him. His wife is in the doorway behind him, and she says, "It may be Super Bowl...
