From the AAEC Editorial Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Two men dressed as railroad engineers are sitting on top of a railway car that is part of a longer train. The car, labeled "85-day regular session," is the next to last, followed by the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Jimmy Carter, dressed as a gas station attendant, leans against gas pumps at a station named "Jimmy's Service." A sign on the pump reads, "Help balance the budget and fill 'er...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Dave Treen, holding a gas can, is walking along a road in a deserted area. He is walking away from his car, labeled "State jobless benefits," which is parked on the side of the...
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 Adickes (Sandra E.) Papers.; Photograph of Addie Mae Jackson standing beside a car. Jackson was host to Sandra Adickes in Palmers Crossing near Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer 1964.
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; An African American child stands in front of a car damaged by gunfire during Freedom Summer, 1964, in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. The car is parked at the side of local civil rights leader J.C....
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man labeled "Chrysler" wearing a patched suit holds out an empty mug like someone begging for money. He stands next to a car, in front of which is a sign that reads "More help...
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...
cartoon by John J. Knudsen; A man dressed in a lab coat labeled "E.P.A." is holding a cip board in one hand and pointing at a line of mufflers connected to one another. The man is talking to another man in a suit. The mufflers are attached to a...
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 Eldon Pletcher. A man is driving a car toward a large intersection on the Earth. The man is labeled, "N.O. property owner voters," and the car is labeled, "$20 million bond election tomorrow,...
cartoon by Ranan Lurie; An Arab is shown driving a car labeled "Arab Terror" into the back of a lady driving a car labled "Israel." The lady is driving her car into the back of a man in a car labeled "Syria." The Syrian man is driving his car into...
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. ...
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of an aerial view of the Barron Motor Company used car lot in Hattiesburg taken by Robert Waller, June 1956.
cartoon by Eddie Germano; A large black pot labeled "summer crime" is "Boiling Over!" Out of the pot comes people of crime. Men holding money bags, guns, knives, and a car come spewing out of the fire hot pot.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man labeled "Legislature" sits in a broken down car labeled, "The budget." The man is holding a paper labeled, "Early adjournment timetable." The car is shaking and is...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; This photograph shows a young male Freedom Summer volunteer pointing to a bullet hole in the grille of the Saab automobile in which photographer Herbert Randall rode from the SNCC Orientation...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; A male Freedom Summer volunteer pointing to a bullet hole in the front of a white car parked in front of J. C. Fairley's Radio's TV Service shop (522 Mobile Street, Hattiesburg, Mississippi). ...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Ed Valtman. Alabama Governor George Wallace drives an old crank-start car labeled "Governorship" in front of a mansion. A small Confederate flag flies on the hood of the car, and a dog races...
