From the Kate Greenaway Papers. Ink sketch 18 x 13 cm.) Has handwritten comments "I think the bonnets must have been rather pretty sometimes..." A partial letter to John Ruskin see Spielmann, M.H. and Layard, G.S. Kate Greenaway p. 217....
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ronald Reagan is sitting in his office reading the newspaper, the headline of which reads, "Duarte leads Salvadoran vote." He comments, "It'll be easier to get more aid through...
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...
From the Adams (Victoria Gray) Papers. Press release by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) regarding the comments of Senator James O. Eastland of Mississippi to the press about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the upcoming SCLC...
cartoon by John Riedell; Two people with long hair and similar hippie-styled attire walk toward the bathrooms at a bus station."Men" and "women" are listed separately on the two bathroom doors. A wife comments to her husband,"We'll know in a...
cartoon by Ed Valtman; Three gentlemen wearing suits are pictured in an elegant and comfortable sitting room called the "Tuesday Through Thursday Club." One of the men reads a newspaper headline that states "Airline Mechanics' Strike Continues."...
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...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Vic Runtz. In the background (upper area) of the cartoon, President Richard Nixon mulls over a paper entitled "Pentagon Review." In the foreground, two figures engage in a tug of war. One of...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. An elephant labeled "GOP" sits on its haunches in front of a tub of water labeled "Coalition for a GOP alternative." On the ground beside the elephant is a sign that reads "None but...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Comments by Stokely Carmichael on the history and goals of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and how they intersect with Carmichael's philosophy of Black power. The document...
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...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on July 7, 2006 with George Dale (born 1940). Former Commissioner of Insurance for the State of Mississippi, Mr. Dale now serves as Public Policy Advisor for the law offices of Baker, Donelson. Dale discusses...
Twenty-page typescript of the diary of Jinny Glass, dated August 7, 1964, through August 25, 1964. Glass was a Freedom Summer volunteer from California who worked at the Palmer's Crossing Community Center, south of Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
Transcribed copy of a document detailing the curriculum of Freedom Schools. Begins with a Table of Contents showing the major curriculum divisions: academic, citizenship, and recreational and artistic. Also gives details of activities and materials...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on June 12, 2007 and February 20, 2008 with Robert Gavagnie. A descendent of some of the first settlers on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, Mr. Gavagnie discusses his experiences as Chief of the Bay St. Louis...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on June 5, 2008 with Carrolyn Reeves Hamilton, Superintendent of Schools, Long Beach, Mississippi. Ms. Hamilton discusses her experience during and after Hurricane Katrina as well as the impact on Long Beach...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on August 25, 1971 with Erskine Caldwell (1903-1987). Mr. Caldwell was a prominent American author whose works include Tobacco Road, (1932) and God's Little Acre (1933).
Transcribed copy of a letter from Zoya Zeman to her father dated July 7, 1964, in which she discusses Ross Barnett and other Southern politicians and their influence on the racial attitudes of many southern whites. She goes on to say that people...
Transcribed copy of a memo regarding the plans of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) for the Mississippi Freedom Project. Provides a brief background and plans for freedom schools, community centers, voter registration campaigns,...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on February 19, 2009 with George Bass, Chief of Long Beach Fire Department. He talks about losing his home and his other experiences in Long Beach during and after Hurricane Katrina.
