From the McAtee (William "Bill" G.) Civil Rights Collection; This collection contains an original curriculum packet given out at the SNCC-NCC training site in Oxford, Ohio, for Freedom Summer workers going to Mississippi. It is accompanied by...
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...
From the Map Collection. A map of Central and North America including Canada and the Arctic. The scale is given in six different countries measurements.
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...
"An Act for Setling the Jurisdiction of the Court of Admiralty" was passed on July 30, 1653. The court was given jurisdiction over all cases involving maritime commerce, including ships and their equipment, the provisioning of seagoing vessels,...
From the McAtee (William "Bill" G.) Civil Rights Collection; This collection contains an original curriculum packet given out at the SNCC-NCC training site in Oxford, Ohio, for Freedom Summer workers going to Mississippi. It is accompanied by...
From the McAtee (William "Bill" G.) Civil Rights Collection; This collection contains an original curriculum packet given out at the SNCC-NCC training site in Oxford, Ohio, for Freedom Summer workers going to Mississippi. It is accompanied by...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Photograph of a local African American child and other guests at the fish fry given for the volunteers by local civil rights leader Vernon Dahmer on his property in the Kelly Settlement, to the...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; The sons of Reverend Robert Beech, Director of the Hattiesburg Ministers Project, reach for cold drinks in a Coca-Cola cooler at the fish fry given for the volunteers by local civil rights...
From the Map Collection. Map of Mississippi by J.H. Colton. Map shows counties, towns, roads, and railroads. Longitude given in degrees west from Washington and Greenwich, England.
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Record of the proceedings and debates of the 89th Congress, the major topic of which is the Congressional Challenge brought by the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) in response...
From the McAtee (William "Bill" G.) Civil Rights Collection; This collection contains an original curriculum packet given out at the SNCC-NCC training site in Oxford, Ohio, for Freedom Summer workers going to Mississippi. It is accompanied by...
Photograph (from a slide) of the dreaded dot posters. During home basketball games, fans were given black and gold posters that they waved when the opposing team shot free throws.
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. A series of essays by Freedom Summer volunteer Carl Young. Young discusses his reasons for volunteering, describes his duties and the working conditions in Holly Springs, and provides details on...
From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection.; Photograph of a group of civil rights workers and local residents at an evening picnic given by Dr. Aaron Henry at his home in Clarksdale, Mississippi, during the summer of 1964. Dr. Henry, a leader...
From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection.; Photograph of a group of civil rights workers and local residents at an evening picnic given by Dr. Aaron Henry at his home in Clarksdale, Mississippi, during the summer of 1964. Dr. Henry, a leader...
From the Kate Greenaway Papers. Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain by John Ruskin (Sunnyside, Orpington Kent: George Allen, 1884). proof, hand colored by Kate Greenaway (20.5 x 15.5 cm.) tailpiece for Letter the...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Local people mingle with Freedom Summer volunteers at the fish fry given for the volunteers by local civil rights leader Vernon Dahmer on his property in the Kelly Settlement, to the north of...
From the Kate Greenaway Papers. Ink drawing (6 x 7.5 cm.) matted in oval gilt frame (15 x 16.5 cm.) inscription on back: "1882. Drawn for the first Programme of the concert-recitation parties given by the M.H. Spielmanns at 16 Porchester Terrace,...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; One of the guests at the fish fry given for the Freedom Summer volunteers by local civil rights leader Vernon Dahmer on his property in the Kelly Settlement, to the north of Hattiesburg,...
