From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Attorney General Ramsey Clark is dressed as a sheriff in the Old West and wears a star labeled, "The nation's No.1 cop--L.B.J." He has two gun belts around his waist with a...
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 Richard Locher. A doctor is seated at his desk in his office. Diplomas hang on the wall behind him, and a name plate on the desk reads, "Dr. Sainty" [?]. A man with a disgruntled look on his...
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 Hazelton (Margaret J.) Freedom Summer Collection; One black-and-white photograph of the back of an injured man's head in Clarksdale, Mississippi. The injured man, possibly named Mark Fast, was an attorney from Boston, Massachusetts. ...
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 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 Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Complaint letter with accompanying instructions and cautions, for use to report civil rights violations pursuant to Title III of the Civil Rights Acts of 1964. Letters are to be sent to the U.S....
From the Faulkner (Leesha) Civil Rights Collection. Confidential report regarding Tougaloo College submitted by Attorney Shelby R. Rogers to Erle Johnston, Chair of the State Sovereignty Commission.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Reg Manning. A man labeled "Supreme Court" wearing dark robe and straw hat sits on a stool and plays an upright piano. The sheet music he is playing from is labeled "Constitution," but he...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A building hosting a boxing match between Jefferson Parish (La.) sheriff [Harry] Lee and assistant district attorney [Art] Lentini is falling down. There is a large hole in the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Jon Kennedy. A slight looking man labeled "U.S. taxpayer" walks beside Richard Nixon. He sweats and strains as he carries Attorney General John Mitchell on his shoulders labeled "Legal fees for...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Louisiana attorney general Jack P.F. Gremillion, dressed in swim trunks, is walking down steps into deep water. The steps are labeled (from highest to lowest), "Relationships...
From the Political Campaign Collection. Flyer that lists instructions for voters in elections. The instructions were issued by James Vardaman, Governor; J.L. Power, Secretary of State; Wm. Williams, Attorney General; and the State Board...
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 March 4, 1972 with Associate Justice Thomas Pickens Brady, of the Supreme Court of Mississippi in his chambers in Jackson, Mississippi. Brady was born on August 6, 1903, in New Orleans, Louisiana. He...
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...
From the Adams (Victoria Gray) Papers. Typewritten letter from Congressman Benjamin S. Rosenthal to Victoria Jackson Gray (Adams), dated February 3, 1967. Rosenthal assures Gray that the complaints of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party...
