From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. A man labeled "Congress" stands in the crossfire of two giant gun barrels, which have fired a barrage of letters at the man. The smoke from the gun barrel labeled "Gun lobby and...
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 Hattiesburg Historical Photographs; Photograph of the Thomas Business Building dedication at William Carey College in 1975. Pictured at the dedication are President Ralph Noonkester, Ollie Thomas, John D. Thomas, and Jerry King, chairman...
Transcribed copy of a letter written by Nancy Ellin requesting help in building up the book collection in the Hattiesburg Freedom Library. Specific needs include books about African-American history, books about civil rights and the Freedom...
From the Adams (Victoria Gray) Papers. Press release by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) regarding the comments of Senator James O. Eastland of Mississippi to the press about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the upcoming SCLC...
Book containing lyrics and music for Christmas carols including First Noel, Good King Wenceslas, I Saw Three Ships, Deck the Hal, O Come All Ye Faithful, O Christmas Tree, We Three Kings of Orient Are, O Little Town of Bethlehem, Hark! The Herald...
Photograph of University Forum Speaker, Charles Moorman. The forum subject was The Legend of King Arthur. Also found in the 1986 Southerner yearbook on page 135; 4.5 x 6.5
From the Kate Greenaway Papers. The Royal Progress of King Pepito by Beatrice F. Cresswell, illustrated by Kate Greenaway (London: The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, [1889]). watercolor (20 x 17.5) for p. 43.
From the Kate Greenaway Papers. The Royal Progress of King Pepito by Beatrice F. Cresswell, illustrated by Kate Greenaway (London: The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, [1889]). watercolor (22 x 16 cm.) for frontispiece
From the Harold Courlander Papers.; A typescript page (p. 2) from "How Poverty was Revealed to the King of Adja," which appears in Harold Courlander's The King's Drum and Other African Stories; 8 1/2 x 11
From the Harold Courlander Papers.; A proof page with corrections (p. 3), from "How Poverty was Revealed to the King of Adja," which appears in Harold Courlander's The King's Drum and Other African Stories (1962); 8 x 12 1/2
From the Harold Courlander Papers.; An illustration proof (p. 2) from "How Poverty was Revealed to the King of Adja," which appears in Harold Courlander's The King's Drum and Other African Stories (1962); 8 x 12 1/2
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 six 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 ten 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...
Transcribed copy of a statement, presumably written by a Freedom School teacher, dated July 9, 1964. Discusses the teaching methods used in Freedom Schools, particularly using the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution to...
From the Campbell (Will D.) Papers; Handwritten account of the student walk-out that occurred at Alcorn A & M College (now Alcorn State University) in Mississippi in March 1957. The protest was a result of a controversy related to Professor...
From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection. Newsletter of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Vol. 5, no. 18. Covers political strategies used in voter registration efforts in Mississippi, including the work of Dr. Martin...