From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Ed Valtman. A large bird's nest labeled "11-state region" sits on the branch of a tall pine tree. The nest is full of hungry baby birds with beaks open to be fed. An adult eagle has flown to...
Transcribed copy of an essay written by a Freedom School volunteer. Describes the locations of the Freedom Schools, subjects taught, enrollment, activities, as well as the students' concerns regarding discrimination. Also discusses the burdens of...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; The booklet is supplementary reading material for one of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee's (SNCC) adult literacy projects. The text combines many excerpts from the Old Testament...
From the Adams (Victoria Gray) Papers. Test designed by the Citizenship Education Program of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). Consists of information about the United States government and constitution.
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...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Richard Wallmeyer. An adult American bald eagle labeled "U.S." is sitting in its nest, which is built at the top of a mountain crag. The eagle is watching its young, a small soldier labeled...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on December 3, 1971 with the Honorable Charles Evers at his office in Fayette, Mississippi. Evers was born on September 11, 1922 in Decatur, Mississippi. In 1950, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in social...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on July 12, 1973 with Mr. Jerry Clower at his office in Yazoo City, Mississippi. Clower was born in 1926 at Route Four, Liberty, Mississippi. After graduating from high school, he joined the U.S. Navy. On...
From the Maurer (John B.) Freedom Summer Photographs; The photograph shows a Freedom Project volunteer, named Lynn, preparing to conduct an adult literacy class for African-American adults in Ruleville, Mississippi, in July of 1964.
From the Maurer (John B.) Freedom Summer Photographs; The photograph shows Lynn, the person with the white sunglasses, teaching an adult literacy class sitting outside on chairs in Ruleville, Mississippi, in July 1964.
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 AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. A man labeled "Congress" sits at a student's school desk in a classroom. He is holding a textbook open to the section on "Legislation," and the textbook is slanted up so the open...
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...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on April 1, 1993 and January 6, 1995 with Ariel Barnes (born 1917). Mrs. Barnes was born in Forest, Mississippi, but moved to Hattiesburg shortly after. She attended Alcorn University, where she earned a...
Oral history.; Viola Brown Sanders was born in Sidon, Mississippi, on February 21, 1921. After Miss Sanders finished her education, she taught school for two years in Glen Allan, Mississippi. In 1943, Miss Sanders joined the United States Navy...
Oral history.; Discusses Clarence Magee's family, his responsibilities on the farm, and first memories of racism. Talks about the African American schools around Columbia, Mississippi. Describes his attempts to register to vote in Hattiesburg and...
