From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by John Riedell. In space, the earth is portrayed as a huge baseball. Two spacecraft labeled "Sox" and "Birds" hover in space. Astronauts on tethers are outside their ships; those near the "Sox"...
One-page document dated December 4, 1871 and drafted by the Mississippi State Legislature requesting return of Federal lands first granted in 1856 for the purpose of building the Gulf and Ship Island Railroad. The Gulf and Ship Island Railroad was...
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...
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...
From the Map Collection. Map showing predominant types of trees, prepared by the Forest Survey Staff of the Southern Forest Experiment Station of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service. Includes range and section lines.
Photograph of the Basic College office featured in the 1967 Southerner yearbook on page 326. The Basic College initiated new students into Southern's academic community. Ninety hours of specific basic courses were required in the Basic College...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Brief memorandum regarding the legal authority of the federal government in matters related to civil rights. According to the memo, the federal government has the authority in court to...
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs. Photograph of Major Casteel, Camp Shelby Public Relations Office. Major Casteel stands on a platform to speak to a Hattiesburg audience during World War II. Among those seated on the platform are (l-r):...
Photograph of Brad Bynus, a University of Southern Mississippi campus policeman, talking in the library plaza with April Boarman, a graduate communication major. (Caption) Also found in the 1997 Southerner yearbook on page 58.
From the Zwerling (Matthew) Freedom Summer Collection. Four-page document that discusses detailed plans for the development of the party, the organizational structure, and its three major challenges: Freedom registration, Freedom candidates,...
Photograph of Clay Bond, a polymer science major, working in a science laboratory. Yearbook caption: "A nationally recognized polymer science curriculum is just one of many advantages attracting Clay Bond and 183 other polymer science majors to the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man labeled "Congress" is standing behind his desk, dusting it off with a whisk broom. A piece of paper that has been swept away has the words, "Flurry of action on major...
Photograph of Sabina Taze, a junior computer engineering major, checking the wiring of a resistance measuring device. (Caption) Also found in the 1997 Southerner yearbook on page 52.
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Record of the proceedings and debates of the 89th Congress, the major topic of which is the Congressional Challenge brought by the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) in response...
From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection. Cover letter written by Fannie Lou Hamer to the Student Nonviolence Coordinating Committee regarding the Congressional challenge being conducted by the Mississippi Freedom Democratic P:arty. The...
