cartoon by Ed Valtman; Three men sit in a row of seats on a commercial airline. A short, slight-figured man is sandwiched between a tall, broad-shouldered man and a massively obese man. The tall, broad-shouldered man crosses his arms and is...
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs; Photograph of a row of uniformed trolley car conductors standing on the car tracks, with trolley cars in the background. Three children and three men are posed in front of the conductors.
From the Thigpen (S.G.) Papers. Photograph of a train delivering tung oil paint. Two men inside a train car behind rows of paint hold a sign reading, “Thermolyzed Tung Oil Paint, made by the O’brien Varnish Co, South Bend, Ind. Shipped to...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Stampone. A soldier is on his hands and knees, acting as the fulcrum for a balanced lever (seesaw) being ridden by two overweight men. The seesaw is labeled "Election year results." One...
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 Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection.; Photograph of four African American men, four African American children, and a white man taken during a Medical Committee for Human Rights (MCHR) trip to rural areas near Clarksdale, Mississippi, in...
From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection.; Photograph of four unidentified African American men and one boy taken during a Medical Committee for Human Rights (MCHR) trip to rural areas near Clarksdale, Mississippi, in September 1964.
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Federal grand jury records of one count of conspiracy and three counts of murder against Cecil Ray Price, Edgar Ray Killen, and 16 other men in the deaths of James Earl Chaney, Andrew Goodman,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Second term Louisiana gubernatorial candidate Edwin Edwards, dressed in swimming trunks, surfs on a wave labeled, "2nd term popularity." A buoy in the water nearby points toward...
