Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on February 7 and 21, 1992 with Mr. Thomas Knight Sr. at the University of Southern Mississippi. Knight was born on July 9, 1920 near Hattiesburg, Mississippi. In 1941, he began working at the Reliance...
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...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on October 24, 1978 with Mr. Nathaniel H. Lewis at his home in McComb, Mississippi. Lewis was born in McComb, Mississippi. In 1928, Lewis and his father organized the McComb Independent Lodge NO. 846 of the...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 19, 1975 with Otho Monroe (born 1912). Mr. Monroe was superintendent of the Senatobia School District from 1949 until 1968, when he resigned in protest of school desegregation.
Oral history.; Interview conducted in the spring of 1995 with Eberta Spinks (born 1914). In 1964, Mrs. Spinks became active in the civil rights movement. She housed civil rights workers in her home, integrated the restaurant of the Pinehurst Hotel...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on May 3, 1982 with Reverend James Randolph, former pastor of St. Paul's Methodist Church, at the parsonage in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Randolph was born on April 4, 1949 in Rankin County, Mississippi, near...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on November 7, 1979 with Mrs. Minnie Ripley on the street named after her, Ripley Street, in Mayersville, Mississippi. Ripley was born on August 22, 1900 in Vicksburg, Mississippi. She attended public schools in...
From the Earle E. Johnston Papers. Transcribed copy of a typewritten document entitled "Attitudes in Mississippi," written by Erle Johnston in December 1967. Johnston describes what he considers to be the prevailing attitudes in Mississippi in the...
Photograph of Billy Jarrell (No. 10) being carried off the field after a football victory over the University of Alabama. Photograph featured in the 1954 Southerner yearbook on page 272.
Photograph of two unidentified students riding the T-bar of the field goal post as it is carried away after the defeat against TCU found in the 2004 Southerner yearbook on page 45.
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...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A large man is carried on a stretcher from an ambulance to “Baton Rouge emergency entrance” of a hospital by three ambulance attendants. One of the attendants holds an IV...
cartoon by John Stampone; An American soldier is being carried above mountain peaks by a large bird labeled "increased mobility program." A piece of paper on the ground says "conventional warfare needs."
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Stampone. Four protesters march from right to left in the cartoon, and each carries a picket sign. A woman wearing glasses carries a sign that reads, "Militant teachers." A young male...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. A worried-looking man holding onto a kite string attached to a kite labeled "Soaring interest rates" is carried into the sky, far above the rooftops of a town. Runtz's signature cat...
cartoon by Arthur Henrikson; A woman stands within her open front door and holds a broom in one hand. She is looking up toward a the unseen head of a giant pair of legs. The shoes are covered and surrounded by a thick looking black substance...
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...
