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...
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 AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Jon Kennedy. A huge boxer labeled "Organized crime" sits in an armchair. The robe he wears is trimmed in fabric printed with U.S. dollar bills. A man stands next to the chair and gestures over...
From the Kate Greenaway Papers. Unsigned graphite sketch for the book "A Apple Pie," published in 1886. "F Fought For It" page. 28 x 19 cm. (22 x 9 cm.) Boy facing left with fists raised to fight. He is in the foreground wearing green outfit in...
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. Two-sided card containing an application to join the Ku Klux Klan on one side; on the other side is propaganda material and contact information for the United Klans of America, Inc. (in...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; The brochure discusses the unequal distribution of commodities in Mississippi, and points out the federal goverment will be hiring Mississippians to give out the food commodities to the poor.
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs; Photograph of a fire at the Kennedy Building on Main Street in Hattiesburg. Dozens of people gather to watch firemen fight the fire in 1907.
cartoon by John Stampone; A man labeled "Congressional doves" holds a picket sign that reads,"Eliminate the draft" His tie bears a peace symbol. Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird stands face to face with the man, gestures over his shoulder and...
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs. One-story clapboard house in which Jake Kilrain reportedly spent the night before his bare-knuckle fight with John L. Sullivan on July 8, 1889.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Stampone. A uniformed Vietnamese soldier is smoking a missile-shaped pipe, which he holds in one hand. His other hand is held in a fist. The smoke from the pipe forms atomic symbols...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on December 3, 1971 with the Honorable Charles Evers at his office in Fayette, Mississippi. Evers was born on September 11, 1922 in Decatur, Mississippi. In 1950, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in social...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on January 23, 1973 with Mr. William Dukes in his office in Gulfport, Mississippi. Dukes was born in the Sullivans' Hollow area near Raleigh, in Smith County, Mississippi on January 15, 1927. After his discharge...
Oral history. Interview conducted on March 4, 1972 with Associate Justice Thomas Pickens Brady, of the Supreme Court of Mississippi in his chambers in Jackson, Mississippi. Brady was born on August 6, 1903, in New Orleans, Louisiana. He...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on May 17, 1972 with Associate Justice Thomas Pickens Brady, of the Supreme Court of Mississippi in his chambers in Jackson, Mississippi. This is the second part of an interview conducted on March 4, 1972 with...
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...
From the Sullivan-Kilrain Fight Collection. Photocopy of a photograph of John L. Sullivan. From John L. Sullivan and His America, by Michael T. Isenberg. Caption reads, "John Wood's photograph of Sullivan, probably the most popular picture ever...
From the Belcher (Granville W. and Mary Caroline) Letters. Granville W. Belcher, a farmer from Martinsville, Henry County, Virginia, served in company F, 57th Virginia Infantry during the Civil War. Belcher writes to his wife, Mary Caroline,...
From the Sullivan-Kilrain Fight Collection. Photocopy of a handwritten letter from John Sullivan to Jake Kilrain, dated 7 December 1888. Sullivan challenges Kilrain to a fight.
Typewritten letter from Matthew Zwerling to his parents, Israel and Florence Zwerling, dated July 3, 1964. Discusses a recent meeting that was well-attended, as well as the COFO (Council of Federated Organizations) discouragement of public...
