Oral history.; Interview conducted on April 2, 1972 with Mr. R. Jess Brown in Jackson, Mississippi. Brown was born in Coffeeville, Kansas, on September 2, 1912, and was raised in Oklahoma. He received a Bachelor of Science degree from Illinois...
From the Campbell (Will D.) Papers; Digital photograph of a round campaign button that says "Write in Dick Gregory President, Peace and Freedom," colored red, black, and yellow. Gregory ran for President in 1968 as the candidate for the Peace and...
From the Zwerling (Matthew) Freedom Summer Collection. Freedom Vote ballot listing nominees for President, Vice-President, Senator, and 2nd district Congressional seat for the Freedom Democratic Party, Democratic Party, and Republican Party.
From the Political Campaign Collection. Official ballot for the Democratic primary election for Clay County, Mississippi. Includes Democratic nominees for governor: M.S. (Mike) Conner, Albert C. Anderson, Dennis Murphree, and Theodore Bilbo.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Richard Nixon and a elephant dressed in a suit stand in a circle of light from an overhead spotlight. Nixon and the elephant have raised their clasped hands. The illuminated...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Louisiana governor John McKeithen is sitting in a chair on top of a giant ballot box that is labeled, "Overwhelming vote of confidence." The box is locked with a hasp and a...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man is underwater, making his way toward a locked ballot box. He is holding a pencil in one hand, and the water is labeled "Politics." Two fish are nearby; one of them is...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Inside a large circle on a paper headed by the words, "General election ballot," Hubert Humphrey is shown trying to run while carrying an injured donkey on his back. The donkey...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Presidential candidates Hubert Humphries, Robert F. Kennedy, and Eugene McCarthy look at a mirror in the shape of the the state of Indiana, labeled, "Indiana primary." Humphries...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher; Uncle Sam is using a pair of binoculars that read, "Poll watching" on the lenses. He is looking at a locked ballot box that reads, "Nov 4 Primary Elections."
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eddie Germano. George Wallace is shown dressed in colonial costume standing on a tree stump, ringing a bell with one hand and holding a long sheet of paper in the other hand. Wallace says,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Knudsen. A large box labeled "South Vietnam elections" is in the foreground. The top of the box is locked with a hasp, and the box has an opening for the insertion of ballots. Behind the...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on February 27, 1991 in the city hall of Corinth, Mississippi with Mayor Edward S. Bishop, Sr. Bishop was born in Starkville, Mississippi on December 11, 1907. In 1926, he completed high school at Jackson...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on February 2, 1976 with James Cohen (born 1920). Since 1953, Mr. Cohen has been active in several civic associations in Hattiesburg and provides insight into the city's race relations and politics from the 1950s...
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...
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...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on November 12, 1981 and February 6, 1982 with Judge J. P. Coleman. Coleman was born on December 9, 1914 in Fentress, Mississippi. After attending the University of Mississippi, he was invited to work in...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on March 6, 2009 and April 2, 2009 with James L. Black, a pastor at Faith Tabernacle of Praise in Biloxi, MS. Rev. Black describes the devastation that Hurricane Katrina wrought on the Mississppi Gulf Coast as...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on July 28, 1981 with Reverend Clinton Collier at the Methodist Church in Morton, Mississippi. Collier was born on August 24, 1910 [i.e. 1909] in rural Neshoba County. After completing the eighth grade, which...
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...
