One-page document dated December 4, 1871 and drafted by the Mississippi State Legislature requesting return of Federal lands first granted in 1856 for the purpose of building the Gulf and Ship Island Railroad. The Gulf and Ship Island Railroad was...
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...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. The cartoon has two panels, left and right. The left panel shows a military tank labeled "Sinai withdrawal" and has a Star of David. A construction sign in the foreground is...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man with a bomb for a head, labeled "Bombings" holds a pipe wrench in one hand. Around him are the words, "Law violations...Racketeering." Behind him is a tourism sign that...
From the Tung Oil Research and Development Collection. Members of the American Tung Oil Association gathered in a conference hall; most are gathered around tables, while some are on a panel.
From the Tung Oil Research and Development Collection. Members of the American Tung Oil Association gathered around a swimming pool posing for a photograph.
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 Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Outline of the basis for the development of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP)" Describes why the MFDP broke away from the Mississippi Democratic Party, as well as the...
From the Zwerling (Matthew) Freedom Summer Collection. Four-page document that discusses detailed plans for the development of the party, the organizational structure, and its three major challenges: Freedom registration, Freedom candidates,...
From the Adams (Victoria Gray) Papers. Newsletter (Vol. 1, no. 1) of the Child Development Group of Mississippi. Reviews the opening of 66 child development centers, the Food Stamp Program, and the visit of Senators Robert Kennedy and Joseph...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; The material provides background information, presents statistics, and gives examples of people who served--and were served by--the Child Development Group of Mississippi (CDGM), a statewide...
From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection. Cover letter written by Fannie Lou Hamer to the Student Nonviolence Coordinating Committee regarding the Congressional challenge being conducted by the Mississippi Freedom Democratic P:arty. The...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Curriculum guidelines for freedom schools; includes headings for leadership development, remedial academic work, contemporary issues, and non-academic curriculum.
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 Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection. Describes problems in African American communities in Mississippi and outlines ways civil rights workers can make the community aware of the federal aid programs available to them.
cartoon by Jim Ivey; At the "Fla. Development Comm.," "Smolko" tries to hand the "Press" selected papers, but the "Press" is angered by the chained and locked "Public Records."
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man in a car labeled "Economic development" has stopped at the drive through teller window of a bank. A large sign above the bank reads, "Multiparish banking," and...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. In the foreground is part of a desk with a nameplate: "Job of Director...La. Tourist Commission." Filling the rest of the cartoon is a large group of people. A woman is hurrying...
Photograph of the Innovation and Commercialization Park. The proposed Innovation and Commercialization Park is launched jointly by Southern Miss and the Area Development Partnership funded in part by a $2 million grant secured by Senator Thad...
