From the Zwerling (Matthew) Freedom Summer Collection. Cover and first five pages of a booklet compiled by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Provides a synopsis of the events leading up to and including Freedom Summer 1964....
From the Campbell (Will D.) Papers; Digital photograph of a round campaign button that says "Write in Dick Gregory President, Peace and Freedom," colored red, black, and yellow. Gregory ran for President in 1968 as the candidate for the Peace and...
From the Campbell (Will D.) Papers; Essay written by Frederick B. Routh, dated January 29, 1956, which provides a commentary of the changing political and social climates of the South at the time. Stresses the concept of desegregation as supported...
From the Kate Greenaway Papers. Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain by John Ruskin (Sunnyside, Orpington Kent: George Allen, 1884). proof, hand colored by Kate Greenaway (20.5 x 15.5 cm.) tailpiece for Letter the...
From the Kate Greenaway Papers. Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain by John Ruskin (Sunnyside, Orpington Kent: George Allen, 1884). proof, hand colored by Kate Greenaway (20.5 x 15.5 cm.) tailpiece for Letter the...
From the Kate Greenaway Papers. Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain by John Ruskin (Sunnyside, Orpington Kent: George Allen, 1884). proof, hand colored by Kate Greenaway (20.5 x 15.5 cm.) tailpiece for Letter the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Jimmy Carter stands alongside a highway full of moving cars and trucks that are emitting clouds of exhaust labeled, "Oil supplies." The sign over the highway reads "Summer" and...
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...
Joint Resolutions: In reference to the treatment of colored troops. By Mr. Curry; Read first and second times, postponed until tomorrow, made special order for 1 o'clock, and ordered to be printed by the Congress of the Confederate States of...
From the Margret and Hans Augusto Rey Papers.; Front cover of condolence letter folder sent by schoolchildren to Margret Rey after H.A. Rey's death, featuring colored marker illustration of Curious George crying (September-December, 1977). 8.5" x...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 24, 1972 with Dr. William Penn Davis at his home in Jackson, Mississippi. Davis was born in Union County, Mississippi on August 5, 1903. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Mississippi College in...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on December 3, 1971 with the Honorable Charles Evers at his office in Fayette, Mississippi. Evers was born on September 11, 1922 in Decatur, Mississippi. In 1950, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in social...
Finding aid for manuscript collection. ; Materials collected by Neil R. McMillen, reflecting principles, activities, and personalities of the Citizens' Council, the Ku Klux Klan, as well as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored...
Finding aid for manuscript collection. ; The bulk of the collection consists of NAACP materials from the early 1970s to 2001. Other records document Charles Davis' social justice activities from 1958 to the present. This collection should be of...
Finding aid for manuscript collection. ; NAACP correspondence and other materials documenting the contributions of this Hattiesburg, Mississippi civil rights leader. For the full finding aid, see http://www.lib.usm.edu/~archives/m340.htm.
Finding aid for manuscript collection. ; The collection consists of a two-page typed memoir of Mrs. Phillip's experiences as an African American in a segregated society and the consequences associated with being a civil rights activist. She...
Finding aid for manuscript collection. ; Materials documenting the work of the 1960s Forrest County, Miss. NAACP leaders J.C. Fairley and Daisy Harris. For the full finding aid, see http://www.lib.usm.edu/~archives/m334.htm.
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 de Grummond Children's Books collection. By H.A. Rey. Includes two of six plates from the book with decoupages that can be colored and cut out to build a colorful airport scene. Text in French. Part of the NRF series.
