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.; An interview conducted on June 25, 2007 with Lieutenant General John C. ""Clark"" Griffith. General Griffith describes his experiences during and after Hurricane Katrina, as well as his involvement in commissions planning for the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Hy Rosen. The United Nations (depicted as a turtle with the head of Secretary General U Thant) is on a runway marked "Long record of inaction on hijacking & political piracy." An angry man sits...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. An elderly couple approach a pilot and flight attendant who are standing in front of a passenger jet, waiting to receive travelers. The elderly woman has unknowingly kicked aside a...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Yassir Arafat sits in a foxhole holding his rifle. The sky is filled with explosions. He says, "It's a real jungle out there! Terrorists fighting terrorists!"
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Richard Locher. Two rats are labeled "Violence" and "Terrorism." They are eating a globe of the Earth as if it were food. One is eating in the area of Eastern Europe/Soviet Union and the other...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; Appendix A describes the history of political disenfranchisement of African Americans in Mississippi in detail and notes Civil Rights movement activities that have been taken to restore the...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; This document explains the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party's (MFDP) Congressional challenge and the stages of the challenge. It also gives voter registration statistics for Mississippi. ...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; This is a newsletter to inform people what is going on in Clay County, because the mainstream media rarely reports on civil rights news or issues regarding African Americans. It explains why...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; This is a publicity document published by the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) to encourage people outside the state of Mississippi to support the MFDP's Congressional challenge. The...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; This legal notice to James L. Whitten from Fannie Lou Hamer announces Ms. Hamer's intent to contest his 19-64 election to the United States House of Representatives from the 2nd Congressional...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; This report gives many accounts of bombings, shootings, and assaults perpetrated by the Ku Klux Klan in Natchez between the years of 1963 and 1965. It also mentions a court injunction placed on...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Memo from COFO director Robert Moses to contacts and parents of students volunteering in Mississippi. Moses writes of the continuing potential for violence and describes steps taken by COFO to...
