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...
cartoon by Karl Hubenthal; A magician is featured in the midst of performing a trick. His magician's table is covered with a cloth labeled "Foreign Policy Magic" The magician's wand is suspended over a hat that sits on the table. All that is left...
cartoon by John Knudsen; A horned cow labeled "'Sacred' Cow" stands in the background of the cartoon and chews on a tuft of grass. In the foreground, a severly thin sits Indian style. He is wearing a cloth wrapped around his loins and a turban...
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 Riedell; A stork holds a baby wrapped in cloth in its mouth. The baby symbolizes the "unborn." A cannon ball labeled "Illinois abortion liberalizing bill" shoots toward the stork and baby.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by William Sandeson. Richard Nixon and Charles de Gaulle are in a dressmaker's studio near two dressmaker's models which have puffed out chests. The models, labeled "Past snubs" and "Ego," are...
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Published in New York by McLoughlin Bros., Inc., in 1908. Title and imprint from cover. Four leaves printed on flannel cloth and folded. This copy is incomplete. Acquired from Justin G....
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Published in London and Edinburgh by Thomas Nelson & Sons, between 1880 and 1892. Cover title. In verse. "Untearable--mounted on cloth"--Cover. Date based on use of "untearable--mounted on...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Jon Kennedy. Uncle Sam, with rolled up sleeves, stands over a wash tub. With one hand, he pours hot water from a kettle labeled "Public disgust" into the wash tub. With the other, he holds a...
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Written by Madame d'Aulnoy. Embellished with curious cuts. Printed at Mozley and Co's Lilliputian Book-Manufactory in Gainsbrough, England in 1793. First published by Francis Newbery in 1773. ...
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 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.; Dorothea Allsup was born on February 4, 1916. Her family resided in Nebraska, but they moved to Epes, Alabama and then Macon, Mississippi, when she was seventeen. While Mrs. Allsup attended high school in Macon she met her future...
Oral history.; Reverend Harry C. Tartt was born on October 16, 1908, in Biloxi, Mississippi. Reverend Tartt attended New Orleans University (now Dillard University) in New Orleans, Louisiana. In 1934, Reverend Tartt began teaching school at...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on October 24, 1975 with the Honorable O.H. Barnett (born 1902). Mr. Barnett was elected Circuit Court Judge in 1958 and served until 1975. He presided during the civil rights movement in the 1960s, during the...
Interviews conducted on 04-21-1977 and 05-12-1977 with Unita Blackwell (born 1933). Ms. Blackwell was a field worker for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in 1964 and also served that year as a delegate of the Mississippi Freedom...
Oral history.; Kathleen (Kat) Bergeron was born on April 23, 1950. She attended Gulfport East High School and the W. Page Pitt School of Journalism at Marshal University in Huntington, West Virginia. From 1995 to 1996, Ms. Bergeron attended...
Oral history.; Mr. Augustus (Gus) Ashby Sr. was born in 1924, in Washington, D.C. and moved to Tupelo where he became active in the local church. After high school, he attended college in Holly Springs and Okolona, Mississippi. He was a member of...
Oral history.; Mr. Balfour William Ruff Sr. was born March 31, 1923, in Jackson, Mississippi. He moved to Tupelo at a young age and attended its public schools. For many years he operated the Ruff Dairy Farm, the first in the Tupelo area to...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on February 26, 1974 with Mr. Brodie Crump at his home in Greenville, Mississippi. Crump was born in 1898 in Greenville, Mississippi. After attending Mississippi A&M College, now Mississippi State University,...
