From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man labeled "La. taxpayer" stands in his living room, his head turning back and forth to items on the table indoors and his car outdoors. Indoors on the table are a liquor...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Stampone. Cabinet officers George Shultz and Robert Finch sit on the left shoulder of Richard Nixon. Shultz holds a sign labeled "Office of Management and Budget adviser;" Finch holds a...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man with a globe for a head sits on a floor and leans against powder kegs. He is smoking a pipe labeled "Ancient hates and quarrels" and has a worried expression. Next to him...
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 Jack Jurden. In the background of the cartoon, Richard Nixon leans out through the front of a television set and holds an ink pen labeled "Veto." In the foreground is an overstuffed cloth sack...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Louisiana governor John McKeithen, dressed as a Roman, drives a chariot labeled, "Gov.'s additional 1 cent state sales tax hopes." Three horses pull the chariot, and they are...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; The brochure discusses the use of food stamps and the unequal distribution of commodities in Mississippi, lists the food categories from which everyone should eat to maintain physical health,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. A man wearing a white lab coat watches a television broadcast from the lunar orbit of the Apollo 7 mission. An astronaut on television holds a handkerchief to his nose and...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; An assessment of statistics on education, housing, income and employment, and health care issues in the southern United States during the 1960s, with special emphasis on Mississippi. The...
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 Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; The report reveals that Medical Committee for Human Rights (MCHR) sought to develop more health and medical programs in the South, and sought to ensure medical aid for the civil rights workers...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Report on the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) Medical Committee for Human Rights (MCHR)" Gives background information about the program and describes its goals, which include...
From the Hazelton (Margaret J.) Freedom Summer Collection; One-page report published in association with the Mississippi Freedom Project. The report describes the Federal Programs Project, which made information about legal and financial aid more...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; The report describes Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) projects in Ruleville, Mississippi, in the early 1960s. It illustrates the political positions of specific Mississippi...
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...
Transcribed copy of a typewritten document by Reverend Bob Beech, director of the Hattiesburg Minister's Project. He provides an account of the activities and accomplishments of the Delta Ministry in Hattiesburg in 1964 with regard to voter...
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs; Photograph of Dr. Sweet and a nurse from the Public Health Service at work during the influenza epidemic of 1918.
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Guests at the party celebrating the opening of the Palmers Crossing Community Center in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, on July 18, 1964, enjoy refreshments on the grass outside the building. Local...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on January 31, 1977 with Jimmy Carter Fairley (born 1921). A native of Greene County, Mississippi, Mr. Fairley was active in the civil rights movement at the local, state, and national levels.
