Oral history.; Four interviews conducted on October 1, 2, and 23 of 1975, and July 1, 1976 with Mr. Hugh Clegg at his home in Anguilla, Mississippi. Clegg was born on July 17, 1898 in Mathiston, Mississippi. Clegg graduated from Millsaps...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; This collection of documents about pending voting legislation in the 1960s. On the first page, James Farmer of the Congress of Racial Equality encourages all branches of the civil rights...
Photocopy of a two-page typed letter with a handwritten postscript, dated Friday [June 26, 1964], from Joe Ellin to "Diane and Susan." The letter was written after approximately one week of Freedom Summer training in Oxford, Ohio. Joe describes his...
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...
Finding aid for manuscript collection. ; In his six-page memoir, Dr. Anthony Harris recounts events in his life from ca. 1964 to 1977. He includes his participation and arrest in a voting rights demonstration, his role in the integration of...
The Normal College News, vol. IV, no. 32, dating 3 March 1923, outlines events and activities at the Mississippi Normal College. The motto is "Get there on time and stay to the end."
The Normal College News, vol. IV, no. 11, dating 2 December 1922 , outlines events and activities at the Mississippi Normal College. The motto is "Get there on time and stay to the end."
Clipping from page 4 of the 15 October 1992 edition of the Student Printz advertising events held for the University of Southern Mississippi Disability Awareness Days on 12-15 October 1992.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man is holding a huge trophy cup labeled, "Sugar Bowl Week." From the top of it can be seen a football labeled, "Sugar Bowl Classic" and several papers that read,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. The very tall ghost of Joseph Stalin is outside the Kremlin in Moscow, next to a wall labeled, "Red Square." Near him are "Events in Czechoslavakia...Harder line towards the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Richard Nixon rides on top of a turtle with a carapace shaped like the U.S. Capitol Dome which is labeled, "91st Congress." He carries a sign that reads, "Race between man and...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Ed Valtman. In the upper frame of the cartoon, Arthur Goldberg is being kicked by the hind legs of a horse labeled "Events." In the lower frame, Goldberg carries a picket sign as he walks past...
cartoon by John Knudsen; A runner carries a torch labeled "Communist Propaganda" The runner's shirt is labeled "International Sports Events" The torch is giving off a thick billow of smoke, which streams back from the torch past the runner's head.
Oral history.; Interview conducted on February 27, 1991 in the city hall of Corinth, Mississippi with Mayor Edward S. Bishop, Sr. Bishop was born in Starkville, Mississippi on December 11, 1907. In 1926, he completed high school at Jackson...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on August 29, 1991 with Mr. Richard Boyd and on September 29, 1992 with Mrs. Earline Boyd. Mr. Boyd was born on July 21, 1916 in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. He graduated from Eureka High School in 1935. ...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on February 2, 1976 with James Cohen (born 1920). Since 1953, Mr. Cohen has been active in several civic associations in Hattiesburg and provides insight into the city's race relations and politics from the 1950s...
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...
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...
