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. A man labeled "Senate" is speaking in the Senate chamber, holding a paper that reads, "Debate on the anti-crime bill." Above him on a higher level in the room is a huge man...
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 Goodyear Yellow Pine Company Photographs. Photograph of the lumber yard at the Goodyear Yellow Pine Company of Picayune, Mississippi. Ground level view looking down an aisle between two rows of lumber stacked to air dry. The photograph was...
From the Goodyear Yellow Pine Company Photographs. Photograph of the lumber yard at the Goodyear Yellow Pine Company of Picayune, Mississippi. Ground level view looking down two rows of lumber, stacked to dry. The photograph was taken by John N....
From the Goodyear Yellow Pine Company Photographs. Photograph of the lumber yard at the Goodyear Yellow Pine Company of Picayune, Mississippi. Ground level view looking down an aisle between two rows of lumber stacked to air dry. A work crew is...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 24, 1972 with Dr. William Penn Davis at his home in Jackson, Mississippi. Davis was born in Union County, Mississippi on August 5, 1903. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Mississippi College in...
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 March 4, 1972 with Associate Justice Thomas Pickens Brady, of the Supreme Court of Mississippi in his chambers in Jackson, Mississippi. Brady was born on August 6, 1903, in New Orleans, Louisiana. He...
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...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man with a globe for a head is climbing up the side of a mountain. He is using a pick and has a rope over his shoulder. The ledge he is about to reach is labeled, "21-nation...
Photograph of freshman Kevin Thigpen in the polymer science research laboratory. Yearbook caption: "Thigpen's passion for his chosen profession opened doors that are usually reserved for senior level and graduate students." Also found in the 1996...
Copy of a typewritten newsletter, the Mantinband Megillah, written in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, from Rabbi Charles and Anna Mantinband to friends, dated New Year 1962. The Mantinbands discuss their health problems, travels for the year, and the...
Transcribed copy of a typewritten document entitled "Message from Mississippi," produced by the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission. This address was prepared for individuals who volunteered to speak publicly on behalf of the Mississippi State...
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...
