From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Riedell. Richard Nixon is shown raising both his hands in the symbol of victory. With two fingers of each hand, he also makes the "V" sign. The lines of his forehead are drawn in the shape...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Two men labeled "Arkansas" and "Louisiana" are planning tennis with a ball labeled "Creationism." The man labeled Arkansas slams the ball, standing close to the net, and the...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Curriculum suggestions for prospective freedom school teachers. Table of contents delineates three distinct curriculum areas: academic, citizenship, and recreational and artistic; document...
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...
A printed copy of an address by Thomas Smith Grimk’e at a religious meeting in Charleston, South Carolina on 29 March 1831. In his comments Grimk’e focuses upon the resolution of the American Sunday School Union on the issue of Sunday Schools...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Information packet for prospective contributors to COFO's freedom school program; consists of the original proposal for the program, written by Charlie Cobb.
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; Newsletter from Amite County; discusses education-centered civil rights initiatives, including an attempt to remove the principal of Liberty's Central High School.
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 Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; The booklet is supplementary reading material for one of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee's (SNCC) adult literacy projects. The text combines many excerpts from the Old Testament...
From the Adams (Victoria Gray) Papers. Test designed by the Citizenship Education Program of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). Consists of information about the United States government and constitution.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by John Stampone. Five men dressed in Santa Claus costumes stand on a street corner under a street sign labeled "Anti-poverty program street." Each is ringing a bell, and four stand beside...
Contract signed between private tutor William Westerman and representatives of twelve families in Warren County, Mississippi agreeing that Westerman will teach sixteen children of their children. The families include the Hyland, Rawls, and Gibson...
Booklet from the Johnston (Erle E., Jr.) Papers; Booklet distributed by the Coordinating Committee for Fundamental American Freedoms in an effort to explain the origin and purpose of the Civil Rights Act of 1963. The authors argue that the...
From the Adams (Victoria Gray) Papers. Booklet produced by the Bolivar County Education Committee with detailed information about politics and education in Bolivar County and the state of Mississippi. Outlines the basic government structure in...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Richard Nixon is dressed in academic regalia, and the robe is labeled, "Coordination of higher education." He is reacting in shock at being kicked from behind. The leg that has...
cartoon by Eddie Germano;"Higher Education" is written on a stack of books that are chained up and locked. The lock is labeled "Campus Militancy." The holder of the keys is a man who has long, uncombed hair and a beard. He wears wrinkled clothing...
