Oral history.; Norman discusses the creation and work of the Mississippi Humanities Council, the people responsible for its early development, and its programs concerning race relations and public education.
Oral history.; Interview conducted on October 7, 1976 with Dr. W. B. Thompson at his office at Mississippi College in Clinton, Mississippi. Thompson was born on November 5, 1920 in Columbus, Mississippi. After returning from service in World War...
Oral history.; Mr. Delmar Robinson was born in Biloxi, Mississippi, July 11, 1937. He attended Biloxi Colored School and M.F. Nichols School from which he graduated. Escaping the oppressive segregation of the Deep South, Mr. Robinson migrated to...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on November 14, 1995 with Dr. Barry Clemson (born 1941). He attributes his interest in civil rights work in part to his membership in the Church of the Brethren, one of the "key civil rights churches." Clemson was...
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.
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...
Photograph of Brett Favre during a football game against the University of Alabama. Favre is pointing toward his right with his left index finger and looking in the same direction, just before taking the snap. The photograph is featured in the 1991...
Photograph of a group of students who are wearing MSC (Mississippi Southern College) caps. Students are standing closely together and looking in one direction [perhaps at a sports event]. Featured in the 1958 Southerner yearbook on page 8.
Photograph of Raymond Mannoni. Raymond Mannoni became band director in 1952, and under his direction the Pride and Dixie Darlings became nationally famous. Image featured in Dearly Bought, Deeply Treasured on page 88 and the 1959 Southerner...
cartoon by Roy Carless; A man with the lower body of a snail carries a briefcase marked "Mine and Smelter Industries" He is traveling on a path marked with lines labeled "1972,"1973," and "1974" He is headed in the direction of a sign that reads...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. This cartoon is in two panels, and both sides are labeled "Beirut" on the ground at the bottom. In the left panel, a U.S. Army truck labeled "Peacekeepers" travels toward Beirut...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. In the foreground is a line of very large footprints labeled “Local revenue needs…Fed. budget cuts.” A man labeled “Chehardy” is walking in the opposite direction,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ronald Reagan stands beside a bed on which an open suitcase rests. Inside only a toothbrush and a tube of toothpaste can be seen. Beside the suitcase is a paper labeled, "Summit...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ronald Reagan is standing at the edge of a landmass (United States), and the U.S. Capitol dome is seen behind him under a night sky with a moon (left side of the cartoon). At...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Charles de Gaulle stands on one side of a dotted line border, holding a paint can in one hand and a paint brush in the other. He is painting on a two-part sign beside him. Each...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A witch (Uncle Sam?) flies through the sky on a broom above houses, a huge moon in the background. A plane flies by in the opposite direction, and a man leans out the window...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Leonid Brezhnev, wearing a cap with the Communist hammer and sickle symbol, stands at a line on the ground indicating a border between the U.S.S.R. and Czechoslovakia, with one...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Eugene McCarthy and Nelson Rockefeller face each other. Each holds a sign in one hand and points behind himself (in the direction from which he has come?). McCarthy's sign...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Judge Haynsworth's arms are being pulled from both sides. One set of arms pulling him in one direction is labeled, "For confirmation," and the other set is labeled, "Against...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. The Democratic donkey is driving an automobile labeled “Off to Chicago” on a highway. Luggage is stacked on the car trunk. The Republican elephant is running in the opposite...
