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 McGuffey's Reading Charts. A chart intended to teach students how to read the English language. Lesson 12: Look at Bun. Is he not fat? See! he has a nut. Bun will crack it. He has a nest in the old tree on the hill. Lesson XIII is on the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Gene Basset. A very short husband, standing between Lyndon Johnson and his large, fierce wife, does a double-take. Johnson's open right hand is extended toward the husband. Johnson's other hand...
Oral history.; Angela Georgian was born in Greece in 1920 and emigrated to the United States in 1937. She and her mother and sister joined her father in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, where he had opened a small restaurant, Gus's Caf*. In 1947, Mrs....
An interview conducted on 06-08-1999 with Umoja Kwanguvu (born1925). Born William Jones, Umoja Kwanguvu actively protested and defied segregation while in the military, conducted protest activities against the prevailing Jim Crow attitudes and laws...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. SNCC Field Secretary Sandy Leigh, Director of the COFO-Hattiesburg Project, lectures on the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) to Freedom School students and their teachers at True...
