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...
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...
Oral history.; Mr. Billy Joe McCain, Sr., was born in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1936. When he was four years old, his parents divorced, and he returned with his mother to her parents' home in Grenada, Mississippi. He attended segregated schools,...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on November 12, 1981 and February 6, 1982 with Judge J. P. Coleman. Coleman was born on December 9, 1914 in Fentress, Mississippi. After attending the University of Mississippi, he was invited to work in...
Transcript of a speech given to teachers during training for the Mississippi Freedom Project in 1963. Describes some of the problems faced by African Americans, especially children, in the 1960s. Includes personal experiences and observations of...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on August 26, 1975 with Mr. Charles Johnson at his home in Jackson, Mississippi. Johnson was born in 1911 in Amory, Mississippi. After receiving a degree in Science from Mississippi State University, he began...
cartoon by Jack Jurden; The head of a missile labeled "Soviet missile" rises over the horizon. A pair of eyes set in the head of the missile look very menacing. The missile casts a very dark shadow over the words "Egypt" and an outline that...
cartoon by Reg Manning; A university student labeled "Vast majority of students" complains to a faculty member,"You'd never know I was in the university, he gets all the attention!" The university student is referring to a miniature hippie labeled...
Transcribed copy of a case study that examines the purpose and philosophies of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). It also examines the Pledge for Freedom Riders in Parchman Penitentiary,...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 3, 1976 with Dr. William A. Butts at his office on the campus of the University of Southern Mississippi. Butts was born in 1933 near Kilmichael, Mississippi. After graduating high school, he went on to...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on July 8 and 23, 1980 with the Reverend Clay F. Lee at his study in Jackson, Mississippi. Lee was born on March 3, 1930 in Laurel, Mississippi. After graduating with his undergraduate degree from Millsaps...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher; A top hat sitting on the White House represents Nixon's inauguration. A large broom leans against the building. Around the lawn are "Old Problems" like "Vietnam" and "Middle...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher; Jimmy Carter approaches an office door where the man inside is calling out, "Come in, come in...the door's always open." The man represents Congress. Above the door there is a...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A police officer in uniform reclines on a hospital bed. His chart at the foot of the bed is labeled, "Blue flu." The doctor, carrying a handbag labeled with "M.D." talks to a...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Louisiana gubernatorial candidate Dave Treen, wearing an elephant button, looks at a shape that represents people fighting. It is labeled with names:...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Jon Kennedy. A damaged multi-story building labeled "San Francisco State" has broken windows and is on fire. A group of college students and protestors, some with long beards and hair, has...
Oral history.; Born on January 19, 1958, in Greenwood, Mississippi, Jon Levingston grew up in a Jewish family in Cleveland, Mississippi. Mr. Levingston attended a boarding school in Rome, Georgia and then the University of Georgia and the Virginia...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on November 4, 1993 with Joseph E. Wroten (born 1925). Mr. Wroten became famous as one of only two Mississippi House Representatives who voted in favor of allowing blacks to enroll at the University of Mississippi.
Transcribed copy of a letter from Zoya Zeman to her father dated July 7, 1964, in which she discusses Ross Barnett and other Southern politicians and their influence on the racial attitudes of many southern whites. She goes on to say that people...
