Transcribed copy of a report by the General Legislative Committee of Mississippi based on findings from an investigation of the occupation of the University of Mississippi in 1962 by the United States Department of Justice. Action was taken in...
"An Act for Redress of Delays Arising by Writs of Error, and Writs of False Judgement in Several Cases" was passed on November 4, 1653. It identifies certain abuses of justice caused by the delaying of the execution of court sentences through what...
"An Act for Setling the Jurisdiction of the Court of Admiralty" was passed on July 30, 1653. The court was given jurisdiction over all cases involving maritime commerce, including ships and their equipment, the provisioning of seagoing vessels,...
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 Vic Runtz. President Richard Nixon rows a boat down a rapidly moving stream accompanied by an attractive woman whose billowing scarf is labeled "USA." Nixon's eyes are on the woman and not on...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards is hitchhiking by the road holding a briefcase labeled, "First use tax" and with a sign around his neck labeled, "Going my way?" A transport...
From the AAEC Editorial Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Jimmy Carter is dressed as an elevator operator, and the door of the elevator is labeled "Economic recovery program." A man is passed out on the floor outside the elevator. In his hand...
A Bill: To suspend the privilege of writ of habeas corpus, in certain cases, for a limited time. November 10, 1864 - Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and read first and second times. December 8, 1864 - Amended, engrossed, read the third...
Resolutions: Passed at a Meeting of the Ninth Virginia Infantry - January 25. 1865. By the Chair; Laid on the table and ordered to be printed by the Congress of the Confederate States of America on 30 January 1865.
Resolutions: Passed at a Meeting of the 14th Virginia Infantry - January 24, 1865 By Mr. DeJarnette; Laid on the table and ordered to be printed by the Congress of the Confederate States of America on 30 January 1865.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. A large American flag flies at half mast on the horizon. In the upper corners of the cartoon are the dates 1890 (left) and 1969 (right). Below 1890, on the horizon, are a horse and...
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 July 12, 1973 with Mr. Jerry Clower at his office in Yazoo City, Mississippi. Clower was born in 1926 at Route Four, Liberty, Mississippi. After graduating from high school, he joined the U.S. Navy. On...
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 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...
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...
Copy of a typewritten newsletter, the Mantinband Megillah, from Rabbi Charles and Anna Mantinband to friends dated 1963, in which the Mantinbands discuss events in their life during the past year. Included in the letter is information about their...
