From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Stampone. A soldier sits on a box in a field, mirroring the posture of Rodin's statue, The thinker. The soldier holds in his left hand a piece of paper labeled "Calley verdict." His rifle...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Ed Valtman. J. William Fulbright crouches inside a doghouse on the side lawn of the White House. The doghouse and the lawn are covered with snow. Lyndon Johnson's beagle, Him, is barking at...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; In this memo, lawyers for the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party present and address questions that were raised regarding the legality of the 1964 Congressional Challenge. The authors cite...
One-page document dated December 4, 1871 and drafted by the Mississippi State Legislature requesting return of Federal lands first granted in 1856 for the purpose of building the Gulf and Ship Island Railroad. The Gulf and Ship Island Railroad was...
From the McAtee (William "Bill" G.) Civil Rights Collection; This collection contains an original curriculum packet given out at the SNCC-NCC training site in Oxford, Ohio, for Freedom Summer workers going to Mississippi. It is accompanied by...
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...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by William Sandeson. A military officer points with his left hand toward a sky darkened by smoke and labeled "War." In his other hand, he carries a drawn sword labeled "Calley verdict" with 2nd...
From the United States Forest Service, Harrison Experimental Forest Station Collection. Photograph of William H. McKee, Jr., SO Agronomist, and James Lee Barr of Neighborhood Youth Corps study plants in a greenhouse.
From the Adams (Victoria Gray) Papers. Statement to Attorney General Ramsey Clark compiled by the National Committee for Free Elections in Sunflower (NCFES) and delivered by a delegation led by Congressman William F. Ryan and Bayard Rustin....
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eddie Germano. Republican presidential candidates "Rocky" (Nelson Rockefeller) and "Nixon" (Richard Nixon) are shown from the waist down. Only knee high are two of the vice-presidential...
Contract signed between private tutor William Westerman and representatives of twelve families in Warren County, Mississippi agreeing that Westerman will teach sixteen children of their children. The families include the Hyland, Rawls, and Gibson...
Photograph of Aubrey Lucas and President William D. McCain when Lucas was announced as McCain's successor. Image featured in Chester M. Morgan's book, Dearly bought, deeply treasured on page 137.
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 McAtee (William "Bill" G.) Civil Rights Collection; This collection contains an original curriculum packet given out at the SNCC-NCC training site in Oxford, Ohio, for Freedom Summer workers going to Mississippi. It is accompanied by...
From the McCain (William D.) Pamphlet Collection; The pamphlet reveals that Communism's ultimate goal is "Black Supremacy,"a Soviet South," and "then a Soviet America."
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 McCain (William D.) Pamphlet Collection; The pamphlet states the Caucasian-Americans from a biological perspective, are superior to African-Americans.
Photograph of the bon voyage party for Pauline Rogers Stout. Seated: Mrs. William D. McCain, Dr. William D. McCain, Pauline Stout, Jessie Morrison. Standing: Roger B. Johnson, Betty Cooley, Cathy Adams, Peggy Layman, Carolyn Mawk, Roger Johnson,...
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 Justin Francis Denzel Papers.; A William Allen White Children's Book Award ballot from 1991 nominating Justin Denzel's Boy of the Painted Cave; 3 x 9
