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 Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of people admiring a Frigidaire air conditioning unit inside of a home.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of people sitting around a Frigidaire air conditioning unit inside of a home.
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...
Photograph of Sandra Masek chatting with Dr. Bertha M. Fritzsche (seated) after having been named recipient of the Fritzsche Graduate Fellowship in Home Economics.
Booklet from the Johnston (Erle E., Jr.) Papers; Booklet distributed by the Coordinating Committee for Fundamental American Freedoms in an effort to explain the origin and purpose of the Civil Rights Act of 1963. The authors argue that the...
Photograph of the May 19, 1970, Student printz with the headline: "Bond cancellation spurs demonstration" and an article about the cancellation by Julian Bond of an address he was to make on campus on Sunday, May 17. Bond cancelled his appearance...
From the McLoughlin Brothers Papers. Blue color separation page for the image "Bunny Rabbits at Home" either from Animal and Bird Picture Book [with illustrations by A.E. Kennedy and Albert Kaye] (Springfield: McLoughlin Bros., n.d.) #401...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Charles de Gaulle is sitting at a desk on top of the globe. On the desk is a crystal ball labeled, "World's problems," and de Gaulle's hands are stretched out toward it. Behind...
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs; Photograph of the Emmett McInnis house under construction, circa 1911, on the corner of Pine Street and First Avenue. Eleven workers are posed in front.
Photograph of a domestic science class at Mississippi Normal College. An annotation at the top of the photograph reads: "Cooking by electricity: an important future factor." An annotation at the bottom includes the General Electric logo.
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; An African American man, possibly a visiting minister with the Hattiesburg Ministers Project, and Freedom School teacher Dick Kelly (right) explain voter registration procedures to local...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by John Riedell. In a darkened room, a diapered baby crawls beneath a table on which sits a switched-on film projector. On a screen, the film being projected shows the words, "Obscene movies shown...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. A small man and woman stand in front of a castle labeled "Czechoslovakia" waving a sign labeled "Soviets, go home!" at a giant bear. The bear growls menacingly. Runtz's signature cat...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Jimmy Carter is standing before the White House with a card that reads, "Incumbency clout...$$$$ Fed. grants and aid."
Photograph of a party at the president's home hosted by Dr. and Mrs. R.C. Cook. Dr. Cook is seen on the right. The home was later renamed Ogletree Alumni House.
