From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A large man with a cigar in his mouth sits behind a desk with a name plate labeled, "Real Estate Comm." Papers on the desk are labeled, “Falsified test scores" and "Licenses...
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 Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. This cartoon is in two panels. A man wearing shirt and tie is reading the newspaper in his living room, and he appears displeased. He says, "Executive privilege...missing computer...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Nine-page typewritten document entitled, *Voter Registration Laws in Mississippi: Subversion of the Fifteenth Amendment in Mississippi;* presumably part of the curriculum training...
From the University of Southern Mississippi Art Museum collection. Oil on canvas painting of tree-covered hills with mountains in the background, by an unknown artist.
A report written from Vicksburg, Mississippi, by Captain A. H. Robinson to Lieutenant Colonel John C. Cox, Acting Chief of Commissary of Subsistence, Department of the Tennessee, outlining the sale and distribution of rations to local citizens. The...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Uncle Sam is dressed as an astronaut, and he holds up two small signs next to each other. One reads, "uccess of Apollo 7," without the "S." The other sign reads, "United States...
A portfolio of original photographic views of the great World's Fair and its treasures of art, including a graphic representation of the famous Midway Plaisance; Volume 1, Number 8. A photographic and historical representation of the "magic city"...
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Published in New York by McLoughlin Bros., circa 1880s. Title from cover. Part of cover is missing. "Printed on linen". Imprint is missing; however, the illustration on p. [4] of cover is...
cartoon by Arthur Henrikson; There is "something missing" on the "1966-67 model" of the "Illinois schools" car. Where one of the front tires should be, a paper reads,"shortage of qualified teachers." A man worridly looks through a display window...
From the Adams (Victoria Gray) Papers. Newsletter for Southern Conference Educational Fund (SCEF) staff, dated May 24, 1968. Includes activity updates by SCEF staff members and discusses the Deep South Project, Southern Mountain Project, and...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on October 5, 2005 with Kate Greene. Ms. Greene discusses her experience during and after Hurricane Katrina in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
Transcribed copy of a typewritten document by Reverend Bob Beech, director of the Hattiesburg Minister's Project. He provides an account of the activities and accomplishments of the Delta Ministry in Hattiesburg in 1964 with regard to voter...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on June 12, 2007 and February 20, 2008 with Robert Gavagnie. A descendent of some of the first settlers on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, Mr. Gavagnie discusses his experiences as Chief of the Bay St. Louis...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on March 6, 2009 and April 2, 2009 with James L. Black, a pastor at Faith Tabernacle of Praise in Biloxi, MS. Rev. Black describes the devastation that Hurricane Katrina wrought on the Mississppi Gulf Coast as...
Twenty-page typescript of the diary of Jinny Glass, dated August 7, 1964, through August 25, 1964. Glass was a Freedom Summer volunteer from California who worked at the Palmer's Crossing Community Center, south of Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on September 23, 2009 with Robert Weaver, the Sand Beach Director and Roads Manager for Harrison County, who describes the 2005 hurricane season's destruction across the American South.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on May 9, 2007 with Perry and Bobbye Gibson. Long-time residents of the Gulf Coast, they discuss their ties to the community of Bay St. Louis as well as their experiences during and after Hurricane Katrina.
