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 Zwerling (Matthew) Freedom Summer Collection. Flyer advertising a town hall meeting about civil rights in Mississippi to be held at New York University on August 20, 1964. Lists the panelists involved, and details of date, time, and...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A teenager dressed in leather jacket labeled "Hell raiser" is sitting on a stool at a lounge or diner (part of a wine or liquor bottle is drawn on a shelf behind the counter)....
From the Zwerling (Matthew) Freedom Summer Collection. Copy of a typewritten document that provides guidelines for parents of New York area students who have committed to participate in Mississippi Freedom Project in 1964. Parents are...
From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection.; Photograph of Heidi Dole (left) and Zoya Zeman (right) taken in the spring of 1964 at a wedding anniversary party for Zeman's parents.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Richard Wallmeyer. Richard Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev are pushing baby carriages. Inside each carriage under a blanket is a missile. Nixon asks, "How do you feel about family planning?"
From the Margret and Hans Augusto Rey Papers.; Watercolor illustration of a little girl with a dog and her parents waiting at a bus stop (folded) and her parents getting on the bus (unfolded) from H.A. Rey's book dummy for How Do You Get There.
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 December 3, 1971 with the Honorable Charles Evers at his office in Fayette, Mississippi. Evers was born on September 11, 1922 in Decatur, Mississippi. In 1950, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in social...
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 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...
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...
Photocopy of a two-page typed letter, dated June 30, [1964], from Nancy Ellin to "Dr. and Mrs. Ellin [Joe's parents]." The letter was written a few days after Nancy and Joe reached Hattiesburg and describes the people and living conditions in the...
Photocopy of a two-page typed letter from Joe and Nancy Ellin to "Mom and Dad" [Joe's parents], dated August 7, 1964. The letter discusses the lack of Freedom School materials and what types of books should be donated to help the cause. It...
Photocopy of a two-page typed letter written to "Mom and Dad" [Joe's parents] by Nancy and Joe Ellin on Thursday, July 9, [1964]. Freedom Schools, problems experienced by colleagues, and teaching experiences are topics discussed in the letter.
Photocopy of a two-page typed and handwritten letter dated June 12, [1964] from Nancy and Joe Ellin to "Susan and Diane." The first part of the letter (by Nancy) contains household instructions to Susan and Diane, who were house-sitting for the...
A two-page photocopied and typed letter from Nancy and Joe Ellin to "Mom and Dad" [Joe's parents] dated July 3, [1964]. The letter describes preparations for the Freedom Schools and the compiling of a "Freedom Booklet." The Ellins talk of the area...
From the Hamlett (Ed) White Folks Project Collection. Feeling that working with the White Folks Project (WFP) in Mississippi would put his Mississippi parents in jeopardy, Philip Alden asks to be assigned duties with the southwest Georgia Project.
Photocopy of a two-page typed letter written to "Mom and Dad" [Joe's parents] by Nancy and Joe Ellin on Thursday, July 9, [1964]. Freedom Schools, problems experienced by colleagues, and teaching experiences are topics discussed in the letter.
