From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man in an armchair has been reading a book, his feet on the footstool. The book is being tossed to the floor, and the man has put his hands on the chair arms and is lifting...
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...
cartoon by Etta Hulme; A group of people are sitting in a campaign headquarters. The campaign manager is pointing to a large sign that reads,"Vote For Leon Blatt The Lesser Of Two Evils."
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...
From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection. Application to register to vote in Mississippi, containing a list of twenty-one questions for the applicant to answer and instructions on how to complete the voter registration process.
From the Political Campaign Collection. Poster encouraging people to register to vote. The poster declares, "You have no voice in your City, County, or State, or Nation's Government unless you are a Qualified Voter!
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...
Transcribed copy of a paper about racism in Mississippi during the 1960s. Follows the tribulations of college students who volunteered to register African Americans to vote during Freedom Summer. With regard to racism and white supremacy,...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Brief memorandum regarding the legal authority of the federal government in matters related to civil rights. According to the memo, the federal government has the authority in court to...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; This document records vote tallies for the 1964 "Freedom Vote" supported by the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP)" The "Freedom Vote" was designed to demonstrate African American...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; This issue of the Congressional Report records the reports of both the majority and minority opinion of the Committee for Elections of the United States House of Representatives regarding the...
From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection. This six-page document is a publication of the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) regarding the cotton vote in Mississippi. It summarizes the attempts of African American farmers to run...
From the AAEC Editorial Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Louisiana gubernatorial candidates David Treen and Edwin Edwards look at each other from behind podiums under a banner that reads "Debate '83." Notes pages are on the podiums and...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man smoking a pipe is standing next to a wall with a sign on it that reads, "Demo. nomination for District B city council seat." He is looking toward a black desk telephone...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Richard Locher. Two thugs walk away from a crime victim in an alley. The larger of the two men carries a handgun and cash. The smaller man, with "CAT" on his shirt, carries a handgun and a (?)...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Local activist Doris Townsend records on a blackboard the nominations for Secretary of the Forrest County unit of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) at a meeting held at the Mt....
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Local teenager Doug Smith (left) and SNCC Field Secretary Sandy Leigh explain to elderly African American Hattiesburg resident Felix Smith the procedures required in order to register to vote...
