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...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; This document contains Silas Norman's critique of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) publication, the Student Voice. He notes the content of the publication and suggests that...
Oral history.; Mr. Earl Napoleon Moore was born in Biloxi, Mississippi, on December 19, 1914. His father was a ship and bridge carpenter, and his mother was a homemaker. Mr. Moore graduated from Biloxi Colored High School. He was a boxer and a...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; The newsletter of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), this issue of the Voice (Vol. 6, no. 3) is dated June 6, 1965."(Note that the name changed from the "Student Voice"...
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 July 8 and 23, 1980 with the Reverend Clay F. Lee at his study in Jackson, Mississippi. Lee was born on March 3, 1930 in Laurel, Mississippi. After graduating with his undergraduate degree from Millsaps...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on November 20, 1994 with Iva E. Sandifer (born 1918). Ms. Sandifer taught in the Hattiesburg public school system for thirty-one years. She served as secretary for her local NAACP chapter and as president of the...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; The newsletter of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), this issue of the Voice (Vol. 6, no. 4; formerly titled the "Student Voice), is dated July 1965. Coverage includes...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; The document is a proposal to expand the program of the Student Voice, Inc., the publishing arm of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)" It explains the initial roles of the...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; The newsletter of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), this issue of the Voice (Vol. 6, no. 6; formerly titled the "Student Voice") is dated December 20, 1965. Includes...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; The newsletter of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), this issue of the Voice (Vol. 6, no. 5; formerly titled the "Student Voice") is dated August 30, 1965. Includes an...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A large bear wearing a collar with a tag that has the hammer and sickle symbol on it sits before a vintage phonograph player. The bear is rubbing its chin. From the sound...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Uncle Sam is driving a car labeled "U.S." at high speed down the unprotected road that is descending around a cliff. He passes a sign with "Caution" and a sharply curving arrow....
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by by Eddie Germano. Vice President Hubert Humphrey's face is seen speaking as the trumpet of an old-style (Victrola) phonograph player. President Lyndon Johnson is operating the player, which is...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eddie Germano. Nikita Khrushchev, wearing tattered clothing, sits in a rocking chair reading a newspaper with the headline, "The memory of Khrushchev is to be wiped out in Russia." He is...
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...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on October 26, 2005 with Joel Ellzie. A paramedic, Mr. Ellzie discusses his experiences during and after Hurricane Katrina.
Oral history; Fredrick Harrison Cook III was born in Pascagoula, Mississippi, on April 15, 1952. During his senior year at The University of Southern Mississippi, Mr. Cook was drafted by the Baltimore Colts of the National Football League. 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 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...
