Oral history.; Interview conducted on June 3, 1993 with Mr. George Saxon, formerly of the Mississippi Highway Safety Patrol as an investigator, at his home in Gulfport, Mississippi. Saxon was born on March 30, 1927 in Waynesboro, Mississippi. ...
Materials in this collection were donated by William M. Colmer: First accession-1970. Additional information online at: http://www.lib.usm.edu/legacy/archives/m024.htm
Photograph from the Johnston (Erle E., Jr.) Papers; Black-and-white photograph of a burned-out vehicle taken during the riots at the University of Mississippi in the fall of 1962. Riots broke out in late September as a result of the integration of...
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. A man with a globe for a head is covered in cuts and bruises and has a bandaged foot and leg. Using a crutch, he is moving toward the United Nations building. He also holds a...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eddie Germano. The earth is personified with a human face. A bandaged area is labeled "Tensions," and wounded areas are labeled, "Riots; Disagreement on nuclear disarmament; Vietnam; Ambitious...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Jon Kennedy. Lyndon Johnson, dressed in working ranch attire, walks away from the barbed wire fence he has just climbed over. He holds both hands behind his back, covering his posterier, and...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Knudsen. A small boat with a flag labeled "National Commission on Violence" carries five people. The man driving the boat has steered it very close to an iceberg, the jagged tips of which...
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...
Oral history.; Robert Elton Cox was born February 6, 1917, at Mannsdale, Mississippi in Madison County. He attended school in Madison and graduated from Millsaps College in Jackson. He taught and coached for two years before going into the service....
Oral history.; An interview conducted on June 18, 1980 with Charles Hudson Griffin (born 1926). Griffin served in the office of U. S. Congressman John Bell Williams until 1968 when he campaigned for the position himself. He served three terms...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on August 12, 1977 with Edward L. McDaniel (born 1934). Mr. McDaniel was instrumental in organizing the Ku Klux Klan in 1962 in Mississippi as the Grand Kleagle for the whole state. He started a state Klan in...
Oral history.; Discusses Murchison's time spent in the United States Army. Particularly focuses on his participation in the Vietnamese Conflict. During that time, Murchison served both as an adviser and in an actual unit. He received a number of...
Oral history.; Peoples discusses his presidency at Jackson State University, racism in the Marine Corps in the 1940s, the Mississippi Humanities Council, and race relations in Mississippi.
Oral history.; Interview conducted on August 26, 1975 with Earl W. Banks, 1905-1986. He enrolled at Alcorn University in Lorman, Mississippi, for one year, then transferred to Jackson State University where he completed high school. He continued...
From the Earle E. Johnston Papers. Transcribed copy of a typewritten document entitled "Attitudes in Mississippi," written by Erle Johnston in December 1967. Johnston describes what he considers to be the prevailing attitudes in Mississippi in the...
Transcribed copy of a journal written by Joseph Ellin in which he discusses government and political issues in relation to racial discrimination, education, economic conditions, and other aspects of society and culture in Mississippi.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Jon Kennedy. Uncle Sam, with rolled up sleeves, stands over a wash tub. With one hand, he pours hot water from a kettle labeled "Public disgust" into the wash tub. With the other, he holds a...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. The shrouded figure of the Grim Reaper stands near a roulette wheel. Segments of the wheel are labeled "Death...Injury...Loss of home...Loss of job...Harm to race relations."...