From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Former Louisiana governor Edwin Edwards has some small patches of tar and a few feathers stuck to him. Walking away from him is a man labeled "Fed. grand jury tax-shelter...
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...
cartoon by Etta Hulme; A number of customers sit at the counter of the Bottomless Cup Coffee Shop. The waitress pouring their coffee says,"We've had to make a few adjustments - yesterday we warmed it up with chicken soup - today it's cream of...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Three young female Freedom Summer volunteers arrive a few doors down from the COFO Headquarters at 507 Mobile Street in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, at the end of June, 1964. One of the three may...
cartoon by Arthur Henrikson; The Legislature is symbolized by a man with an ax. A stack of logs is labeled "other problems," but he looks at a single "remap" log and says,"I'll handle it easily." At this point he is at the "start of the session."...
From the T.P. Scott Papers. A promotional pamphlet created by the Hattiesburg Commercial Club called "South Mississippi: A Few Facts." It lists facts about southern Mississippi and the Hattiesburg area.
From the University of Southern Mississippi Art Museum collection. Oil on canvas painting of a river running through a gorge with reddish colored mountains, by Jack Bartlett.
Photograph of registration. The caption reads, "Registration, held quarterly is one of the many necessary evils of university life. Standing in line for hours just to get inside and then finding that the class you've been waiting three quarters to...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man labeled "Congress" stands beside a huge barrel labeled "Carter energy program." He also has a suitcase labeled "Recess." His hand is on the spigot, and he is letting a...
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Collected and revised by Benjamin Tabart. Published in London by Sir Richard Phillips and Co., Bride Court, Bridge Street, circa 1818. "Contains twenty-six choice pieces of fancy and fiction, by...
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 Mrs. W's 1901 Diary. Mrs. W.'s diary paints a vivid portrait of the daily life of a middle class homemaker in 1901, and constitutes a daily account of the author's activities from April 1 - August 7, 1901.Very little biographical or historical...
