From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Jack Jurden. A bulldog with a British flag on its side is knocking on a closed door labeled "Common Market."
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 Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Local African American activist Andrew Wilson speaks at a Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) meeting at the Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer,...
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 AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by John Collins. Five of six panels show world leaders reading newspaper headlines of Lyndon Johnson's decision not to seek reelection in 1968. Canada's Lester B. Pearson says, "Those Americans!...
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 Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Local African-American teenager Doug Smith, Assistant Director and Youth Coordinator of the Hattiesburg project (left), Clarence Wilson (center), and another local African- American teenager...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Richard Wallmeyer. Four birds with human heads are sitting on a telephone pole or on the wires attached to the pole. The birds portray President Lyndon Johnson, French prime minister Charles de...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on May 18, 1972 with Ms. Ruby Magee at College Hall at the University of Southern Mississippi. Magee was born in 1940 in Tylertown, Mississippi. In 1962, she received a BA in history and political science from...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on January 23, 1973 with Mr. William Dukes in his office in Gulfport, Mississippi. Dukes was born in the Sullivans' Hollow area near Raleigh, in Smith County, Mississippi on January 15, 1927. After his discharge...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on May 17, 1972 with Associate Justice Thomas Pickens Brady, of the Supreme Court of Mississippi in his chambers in Jackson, Mississippi. This is the second part of an interview conducted on March 4, 1972 with...
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...
One letter written by Augusta Evans Wilson in Mobile, Alabama, to Major E. C. Walthall, expressing Evans' appeciation of Walthall's compliments on her novel Infelice, recently translated into Italian, and her opinions on contemporary political...
From the Margaret Thatch Hinton Collection. Typewritten letter from R.S. Wilson thanking participants for their involvement in the 1928 tour of the "Know Mississippi Better" train.
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Volunteer Lorne Cress, Director of the COFO-Hattiesburg Community Centers, records on a blackboard the nominations for Chairman of the Forrest County unit of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Louisiana governor Edwin Edwards is walking toward Cajun chef and humorist Justin Wilson, who is sitting on a bench. Edwards holds a poster with a picture of himself sitting...
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 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...
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...
A collection of six 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...
