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 Adickes (Sandra E.) Papers.; Photograph of Addie Mae Jackson standing beside a car. Jackson was host to Sandra Adickes in Palmers Crossing near Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer 1964.
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; A close-up of an African American volunteer at the second SNCC Orientation Session at Western College for Women located in Oxford, Ohio, between June 22 and 27, 1964.
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; A close-up of an African American volunteer at the second SNCC Orientation Session at Western College for Women located in Oxford, Ohio, between June 22 and 27, 1964.
From the University of Southern Mississippi Art Museum collection. Oil painting of a topless African American woman wearing a red headdress, by Marian Sacks.
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...
Photograph of softball player Amy Musson preparing to deliver a softball pitch. Also found in Chester M. Morgan's book, Dearly bought, deeply treasured on page 145, and in the 1984 Southerner yearbook on page 91.
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; This photo shows Annie Devine, a Mississippi civil rights activist, seated in an auditorium during the second SNCC Orientation Session at Western College for Women located in Oxford, Ohio,...
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...
cartoon by Vic Cantone; The "Press" indulges in the pleasures of women, food, and relaxation. Bubbles float around that read "Conflicts of Interest," "Freebies," "Free Travel," and "Gifts." An older and proper woman representing the "Code of...
President Aubrey Lucas presents a game ball to Kay James to commemorate the winning of her 300th game earlier in the season. Featured in the USM Alumni News, vol. 46, no. 4 (Spring 1994) on page 19.
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Marie Blalock, Peggy Jean Connor, and Vassie Patton (left to right) at a Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) meeting held in the sanctuary of a local African American church in...
Photograph of judging during the first bridge building contest for members of the Society of Women Engineers. Contestants were evaluated on technique and creativity and were allowed to use only spaghetti and white glue. Photograph also found in the...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; This photograph shows a young male Freedom Summer volunteer pointing to a bullet hole in the grille of the Saab automobile in which photographer Herbert Randall rode from the SNCC Orientation...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Ed Valtman. Alabama Governor George Wallace drives an old crank-start car labeled "Governorship" in front of a mansion. A small Confederate flag flies on the hood of the car, and a dog races...
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs. Photograph of tent housing at Camp Shelby during World War I. Several African American women and children are pictured among the tents.
From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection.; Photograph taken in September 1964 of Carolyn Lane, an unidentified man, five unidentified women, and one unidentified child. It shows the group standing in front of the Ruleville Community Center....
