From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Jon Kennedy. A huge boxer labeled "Organized crime" sits in an armchair. The robe he wears is trimmed in fabric printed with U.S. dollar bills. A man stands next to the chair and gestures over...
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. Standing on a map of Louisiana, a huge man labeled "Crime (ordinary...organized...unorganized)" holds a handgun at his side and looks down on a much smaller man. The second man...
From the McCain (William D.) Pamphlet Collection; Koch's pamphlet discusses how Communism conquers its enemies, plans to conquer the United States, wishes to disband organized religion, and incites racial strife.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Vic Runtz. Jimmy Hoffa sits in the sear of a cart labeled "Teamsters" and holds a horse whip. The cart seat is labeled with dollar signs. Uncle Sam, wearing a police uniform and holding a paper...
From the Hazelton (Margaret J.) Freedom Summer Collection; Six handwritten note cards outlining the Community Center at Clarksdale; Community centers were organized by the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) as part of Mississippi Freedom...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Jimmy Hoffa sits at a desk with a name plate that reads, "Teamsters president." Another man in the room is looking out the window, and the blinds on the window are slanted so...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Charlie Daniel. Richard Nixon, dressed in a trench coat and hat, is reminiscent of cartoon character Dick Tracy. He points to a fat mouse and says, "I'm out to get you, you dirty rat." The...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; This publication of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) explains what the Freedom Vote is and why it is necessary in Mississippi. It discusses many ways that African Americans have...
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...
Photograph of an aerial view of the Homochitto Lumber Company in Bude, Mississippi (Franklin County). The company was organized in 1912 by Fenwick L. Peck of the U. S. Lumber Company, and began operation in 1913.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Two right arms extend into the cartoon space from the right, each holding a hand magnifier. One is labeled, "Police," and the other is labeled, "IRS." In the background of the...
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs; Photograph of a large tent shading hundreds of people attending a service. Immanuel Baptist Church, organized in 1907, met in this tent at the corner of Arledge Street and Magnolia Avenue until the first...
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 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...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on May 17, 1972 with Associate Justice Thomas Pickens Brady, of the Supreme Court of Mississippi in his chambers in Jackson, Mississippi. This is the second part of an interview conducted on March 4, 1972 with...
