cartoon by John Stampone; This cartoon contains four frames. Within the four frames, two bald, fat men shovel dirt and fill in a hole in the ground. One man is labeled "Soviets" and the other man is labeled "Red China" In the first frame, 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...
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 Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. Three unidentified African American boys playing ping-pong on porch in Holly Springs. This is probably the porch of the second Holly Springs Freedom House at 110 Rust Avenue.
From the McLoughlin Brothers Papers. Paste-ups for the jacket or title page of Adventures on the High Trail, Lost! Two Boys Battle with the Elements, and Unexplored! With the Forest Rangers of the Northwest for the Allen Chaffee Books series, from...
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 Vic Runtz. Two boys are walking outdoors with their backs to the sun. One boy has put his hand over his mouth and says, "Bet it's pollution!" Behind the boys, the sun is almost fully eclipsed....
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Ed Valtman. Richard Nixon is dribbling a basketball all over a basketball court that is full of players, most of whom are on the floor. A broken line indicates Nixon has jumped over many of...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Five local African-American boys with rakes help to clean the yard of the COFO-Hattiesburg Project's second community center, located at 1100 Dewey Street in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during...
From the Kate Greenaway Papers. Unsigned graphite sketch for the book "A Apple Pie," published in 1886. "C Cut It" page. 25 x 30 cm. (12 x 17 cm.) Three boys and four girls look on with plates in hand. Early concept.
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Local African American children -- a girl and two little boys -- sweep and pick up litter from the porch of the COFO-Hattiesburg project's second community center, located at 1100 Dewey Street...
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of three boys collecting non-perishable food items [labeled “Christmas includes Ruth Brown –Jane McInnis, etc.”]
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of the 1948 Eatonville High School boys basketball team, taken for the yearbook.
From the Paul B. Johnson Family Papers. Photograph of Edgar and Randy Williamson. The boys were deemed 1/16 or 1/32 black and were therefore barred from their local white and black schools.
