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 AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A boat named, "Port of N.O. Louisiana U.S.A." is sinking. The bow is tilted up and the stern is under water. Five men on the deck are watching anxiously, and they are labeled,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. The cartoon is in two parts. In the left panel, Leonid Brezhnev is a ventriloquist sitting in a chair while holding a toy bear in his lap. The bear has the five Olympic rings on...
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 Eldon Pletcher. A man dressed in colonial clothing is labeled, "America's most interesting city." He is smiling and holding five large playing cards in his hand, one of which is labeled,...
cartoon by John Riedell; A dollar bill is being cut by five separate pairs of scissors. George Washington's face on the bill looks worried, and he is sweating. The pairs of scissors have eyes and hats. They are labeled,"federal taxation,"state...
From the Campbell (Will D.) Papers; Newsletter of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), dated December 9, 1963. The front-page story of this issue reports the bombing of the home of an African-American voter registration worker in...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Voter registration statistics of African Americans and whites in five congressional districts in Mississippi, 1961. A letter to groups supporting the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party...
From the Beauregard (Pierre Gustave Toutant) Papers. Written by and at the command of General Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard from Charleston, South Carolina, headquarters of the Department of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida on 1 December...
From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection. Documents (five pages and one index card) contain lists of books and other readings relating to the social and economic structure of the South. These books were used by volunteers during the...
From the Circus, Minstrel and Traveling Show Collection. Circus annual for Ringling Bros.' World's Greatest Shows for the 1901 season. The annual lists personnel and towns where performances were held, as well as photographs and a poem honoring the...
From the Hamlett (Ed) White Folks Project Collection. This newsletter contains six pages of text, largely edited by Eric Blanchard, and ten photographs by Ken Thompson. The newsletter explains the history of voting in Mississippi, the voter...
cartoon by John Stampone; A giant nut is labeled "Draft inequities" Five sledge hammers litter the ground around the nut. The handles of each are broken. Two of the sledge hammers are labeled "Reform" and "Proposals".
From the Margret and Hans Augusto Rey Papers.; Ceramic medium unglazed dragon with feet and five scales on neck, perhaps used as candleholder or planter. Made by Margret Rey in 1974. 9" x 7" x 9"
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...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on August 25, 1971 with Erskine Caldwell (1903-1987). Mr. Caldwell was a prominent American author whose works include Tobacco Road, (1932) and God's Little Acre (1933).
