From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; This issue of the Congressional Report records the reports of both the majority and minority opinion of the Committee for Elections of the United States House of Representatives regarding the...
From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection.; Photograph of a cotton field in Mississippi taken in September 1964. It shows a large field filled of cotton plants and five African Americans walking in the field.
From the Zwerling (Matthew) Freedom Summer Collection. Cover and first five pages of a booklet compiled by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Provides a synopsis of the events leading up to and including Freedom Summer 1964....
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Five tall trees are each marked with a letter and together they spell, "Polls." Arrows on the trees are pointing in different directions; some are labeled, "Nixon would run...
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs; Photograph featuring artist's drawings of five early Hattiesburg Schools, circa 1908. Featured are Court Street, Fourth Ward, Hardy Street, Main Street and Third Ward Schools.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. This cartoon has six sections. The first has the cartoon caption, "Evolution of the ultimate weapon." The other five sections are numbered and show a mace, a bow and arrow, a...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Five African American girls from Hattiesburg, Mississippi, pose for the camera in front of True Light Baptist Church during Freedom Summer, 1964. They are (from left to right) Otis Ruth Travis,...
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 Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of the Hattiesburg High School class of 1947, taken five years after graduation.
cartoon by John Knudsen; A man labeled "Czechoslovak Freedom" sits on a bunk in a jail cell with his face buried in his hands. On the wall behind him, a a series of over 150 tick marks (in groups of five) have been scratched onto the wall. A...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 24, 1972 with Dr. William Penn Davis at his home in Jackson, Mississippi. Davis was born in Union County, Mississippi on August 5, 1903. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Mississippi College in...
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 May 18, 1972 with Ms. Ruby Magee at College Hall at the University of Southern Mississippi. Magee was born in 1940 in Tylertown, Mississippi. In 1962, she received a BA in history and political science from...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on July 12, 1973 with Mr. Jerry Clower at his office in Yazoo City, Mississippi. Clower was born in 1926 at Route Four, Liberty, Mississippi. After graduating from high school, he joined the U.S. Navy. On...
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 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...
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...
