cartoon by Eddie Germano; Pollution is the topic of this cartoon. Factories and transportation vehicles are shown creating pollution, and a thick layer of smog has covered the cartoon. A man in the corner says,"Had any fresh air lately?...
From the Map Collection. Map of Mississippi counties and Indian territories. To the left, right , and bottom of the map are columns of text discussing aspects of Mississippi. Topic heading are "Situation, Limites en Etendue", "Aspect du Pays, Sol,...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Record of the proceedings and debates of the 89th Congress, the major topic of which is the Congressional Challenge brought by the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) in response...
From the Map Collection. Map of Mississippi showing counties and Indian territories. To the left, right and bottom of the map are columns of text discussing different aspects of the state. Topic headings are "Situation, Boundaries, and Extent",...
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...
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...
Materials in this collection were donated by William M. Colmer: First accession-1970. Additional information online at: http://www.lib.usm.edu/legacy/archives/m024.htm
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Transcription of a classroom discussion between Stokely Carmichael and several students; the topic of discussion is "proper English," who defines it, and what the implications are for black...
cartoon by John Riedell; The 1970 census is the topic of this cartoon. A Texas ten-gallon cowboy hat gallops past, with an Illinois stovepipe hat trailing behind. Illinois and Texas are represented as people at the bottom of the cartoon, and...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on April 3, 1995 and June 8, 1995 with Constance Baker (born 1912). Mrs. Baker has spent her life working for civil rights and in teaching. She was involved in the Head Start program from its inception and...
Oral history.; Dr. Antone Walter Tannehill, Jr., was born May 22, 1929, in New Orleans, Louisiana, but grew up in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. He attended Vanderbilt University and Duke University Medical School. He served an internship at the...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on November 6, 1979 with Dr. Arthur Lewis, emeritus professor of mathematics, emeritus professor of physics and astronomy, and emeritus Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Mississippi. Lewis...
Oral history.; Norman discusses the creation and work of the Mississippi Humanities Council, the people responsible for its early development, and its programs concerning race relations and public education.
Oral history.; Interview conducted on September 20, 1979 with Dr. Dewey Lane at the Robinson Lane Surgical Clinic in Pascagoula, Mississippi. Lane was born on September 27, 1934 in Starkville, Mississippi. He attended Vanderbilt University from...
Oral history.; Peoples discusses his presidency at Jackson State University, racism in the Marine Corps in the 1940s, the Mississippi Humanities Council, and race relations in Mississippi.
Oral history.; Foster discusses the Mississippi Humanities Council, the teaching of African-American history in Mississippi schools, grant writing and funding, and race relations in Mississippi.
