Materials in this collection were donated by William M. Colmer: First accession-1970. Additional information online at: http://www.lib.usm.edu/legacy/archives/m024.htm
Oral history.; Interview conducted on April 2, 1972 with Mr. R. Jess Brown in Jackson, Mississippi. Brown was born in Coffeeville, Kansas, on September 2, 1912, and was raised in Oklahoma. He received a Bachelor of Science degree from Illinois...
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...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on August 21, 1972 with the Honorable Russell C. Davis in his office in Jackson, Mississippi. He was born in Rockville, Maryland. After completing two years at the University of Maryland, Davis took employment...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on June 9, 1977 with the Honorable Herman B. DeCell in his office in Yazoo City, Mississippi. DeCell enrolled at the University of Mississippi but with the start of World War II, he was called to service. After...
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...
Transcribed copy of a booklet describing the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO). Includes the structure and history of the organization as well as a list of COFO programs.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Stampone. A uniformed Vietnamese soldier is smoking a missile-shaped pipe, which he holds in one hand. His other hand is held in a fist. The smoke from the pipe forms atomic symbols...
From the AAEC Editorial Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev [?] sit in a car with their arms folded in a defiant pose. The car is stalled on railroad tracks and has been there for enough time to have cobwebs...
From the AAEC Editorial Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A shivering Uncle Sam is outdoors in the snow at night, and the snow is labeled "Freeze movement." Uncle Sam is standing outside a brick building with a large window into the kitchen....
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. Uncle Sam walks past a sign post on which are two signs pointing in opposite directions. The sign that points in the direction Uncle Sam is walking reads "Nuclear non-proliferation...
From the AAEC Editorial Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Two doors in a hallway are labeled "Mayor" and "Council." A box between the doors with illustrations of olive branch, dove, and flowers indicates peaceful communication between the two...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man wearing a large pin above the medals on his suit stands next to a replica of a Soviet missile. The missile has a Soviet hammer and sickle symbol and the word,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man in suit and top hat (diplomat?) is standing on a spinning globe with a nuclear warhead on top. He holds a briefcase labeled, "N-talks." The cartoon caption reads, "'Round...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by John Stampone. The earth is shown as the head of a man whose clothes are tattered and torn. He stands with cane in hand on the nose of one of many missiles and looks up at a crescent moon....
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Richard Wallmeyer. A small child wearing one piece pajamas and holding a teddy bear is standing on the surface of the earth looking toward a huge moon in a dark sky. No stars can be seen. An...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ronald Reagan and another man walk between two groups of missiles that are pointed at each other. One group has U.S., and the other has the Soviet hammer and sickle. The man...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Leonid Brezhnev and Uncle Sam sit on opposite sides of a rocket labeled "Arms Limitation Talks." The rocket is also marked with the atomic symbol. Part of the rocket body is...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man with a globe for a head is climbing up the side of a mountain. He is using a pick and has a rope over his shoulder. The ledge he is about to reach is labeled, "21-nation...
cartoon by John Riedell; An African American nurse tells the doctor,"With a heart transplant, he'll pull through." The doctor checks on a patient with one white foot and one black foot. The hospital bed is labeled "Racial Cooperation."
