From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by William Sandeson. Uncle Sam is sitting at a table in an Egyptian bar. He is wearing a fez, and his tophat is on the table. He is watching a belly dancer with a large dollar sign and the word...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by John Stampone. A giant shovel labeled "Benefits for all mankind" has been thrust partway into the soil of the surface of the moon. Against the backdrop of outer space, a spacecraft labeled...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Associate Justice Abe Fortas is on the steps of the Supreme Court building, wearing his robes. He is fending off bricks which are being thrown at him. The paths of two bricks...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. The Apollo 8 command module has just splashed into the ocean upon its return from the moon. Waves radiate out from the splashdown. Parachutes are deployed, and a Navy ship approaches...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Memo from Jon Else, Northern Campus Coordinator of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), to all returned summer volunteers, dated November 3, 1964. Discusses the Freedom...
Typewritten letter from Matthew Zwerling to his parents, Israel and Florence Zwerling, dated August 26, 1965. Discusses plans to leave Mississippi and offers suggestions for spending time with his family upon his return to New York.
Typewritten letter from Matthew Zwerling to his parents, Israel and Florence Zwerling, dated August 17, 1964. Discusses plans to return home from Mississippi.
From the Hamlett (Ed) White Folks Project Collection. Dial Parratt, a Princeton University student from Mississippi, writes to a friend, Hunter (last name unknown), to inquire about a freedom march in which Princeton students were invited to...
Copy of a typewritten newsletter, the Mantinband Megillah, from Rabbi Charles and Anna Mantinband to friends dated 1964, in which the Mantinbands discuss their life in Texas. While they return to Mississippi occasionally upon the invitation of...
From the Political Campaign Collection. Flyer advertising a showing of films of Liberia, Africa, by Professor J. Rockmore, following his return from a visit to Africa.
From the Margaret Thatch Hinton Collection. Dinner menu for the return trip of the "Know Mississippi Better" train in September 1927. Jackson, Mississippi, to San Francisco, California, on the Southern Pacific Lines.
One-page document dated December 4, 1871 and drafted by the Mississippi State Legislature requesting return of Federal lands first granted in 1856 for the purpose of building the Gulf and Ship Island Railroad. The Gulf and Ship Island Railroad was...
From the Spight (Thomas) Letters. Letter from Virginia Barnett to Thomas Spight, dated 9 August 1865; written from near Cotton Grove, Tennessee. Virginia Barnett is the cousin and future wife of Spight, a member of the 34th Mississippi Infantry...
Instructions: To Tax Collectors in reference to the return of Estimates of Tax in Kind in certain cases. From Thompson Allan, Commissioner of Taxes, approved by G. A. Trenholm, Secretary of Treasury.
Oral history.; Interview conducted on February 27, 1991 in the city hall of Corinth, Mississippi with Mayor Edward S. Bishop, Sr. Bishop was born in Starkville, Mississippi on December 11, 1907. In 1926, he completed high school at Jackson...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on February 2, 1976 with James Cohen (born 1920). Since 1953, Mr. Cohen has been active in several civic associations in Hattiesburg and provides insight into the city's race relations and politics from the 1950s...
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...
