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 AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Father Time (with his long beard and hour glass) stands under a sky filled with planets of the solar system. Before him is a counter (table, podium?) on which are a Roman style...
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 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...
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 de Grummond Children's Books collection. Edited by Watty Piper. Published in New York by Platt & Munk Co. Inc., in 1922. Some illustrations signed by Lois Lenski, Eulalie, and Elizabeth Colborne. Contents: Cinderella; The frog prince;...
Photograph of an editorial cartoon entitled, "Social Hour at the P.O." Drawing of students sitting on the steps of the post office entrance, another student asks, "Has the mail came?" Also found in Dearly Bought, Deeply Treasured on page 24, and in...
A Bill: To be entitled, "An Act to facilitate the settlement of claims of deceased officers and soldiers." By Mr. Perkins; Read first and second times, made special order from Monday next, after morning hour, and day to day, and ordered to be...
A Bill: To be entitled, "An Act for the prevention of frauds on the revenues of the Postoffice Department, and prohibiting the transportation of mailable matter over the post routes of the Confederate States by unauthorized associations of persons...
A Bill: To be entitled, "An Act to lay taxes for the common defense, and carry on the Government of the Confederate States." By Mr. Kenner, from Committee on Ways and Means; Read first and second times, make special order for Monday after morning...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man sits in a chair in his living room, holding a beverage can. He is watching a television that shows only a large hour glass with sand. His wife is in the doorway, and she...
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...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man in a nightshirt and sleeping cap is yawning. He carries a tire over his shoulder and is holding an alarm clock that reads, "Daylight saving time...2 am Sunday." He is...
Copy of a typewritten newsletter, the Mantinband Megillah, from Rabbi Charles and Anna Mantinband to friends dated 1963, in which the Mantinbands discuss events in their life during the past year. Included in the letter is information about their...
From the Belcher (Granville W. and Mary Caroline) Letters. Granville W. Belcher, a farmer from Martinsville, Henry County, Virginia, served in company F, 57th Virginia Infantry during the Civil War. Belcher writes to his wife, Mary Caroline, on...
