From the Political Campaign Collection. Campaign poster for Ford Vance, candidate for Circuit Clerk of Forrest County, Mississippi. The poster declares that "The fight for segregation in Forrest County will be made at the Polls."
From the Kate Greenaway Papers. Ink sketch 18 x 13 cm.) Has handwritten comments "I think the bonnets must have been rather pretty sometimes..." A partial letter to John Ruskin see Spielmann, M.H. and Layard, G.S. Kate Greenaway p. 217....
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 Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; The report published by the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) as part of the Political Education Project gives the history of both the MFDP and the regular Mississippi Democratic...
cartoon by Ed Valtman; Three gentlemen wearing suits are pictured in an elegant and comfortable sitting room called the "Tuesday Through Thursday Club." One of the men reads a newspaper headline that states "Airline Mechanics' Strike Continues."...
cartoon by Eugene Payne; Two castaways float on a raft in the ocean. After seeing bottles, cans and other trash in the waves, one of the bearded men on the raft concludes, "We Must Be Nearing Land."
From the Hazelton (Margaret J.) Freedom Summer Collection; Four-page typewritten document entitled "We must be allies...race has led us both to poverty" written by Bruce Maxwell. The document refers to the White Folks Project (WFP), an organized...
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 AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A map of Louisiana is the backdrop for this cartoon. A man whose head and neck are a pipe wrench sits at the edge of a manufacturing facility. The sign above the factory reads,...
From the McCain (William D.) Pamphlet Collection; The pamplet stresses that only by a separate program of friendly cooperation between the races, with separateness in social life, can the races go forward in promoting the talents of races and can...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Statement issued by Clifton Whitley, Ralthus Hayes, Edwin King, Clinton Collier, and Lawrence Guyot of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) in opposition of Mississippi Code,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. This cartoon is in two panels. In the top panel, labeled "Two years ago," a man labeled "City council" stands at a podium and points with his index finger while saying, "We must...
