Interviews conducted on 04-21-1977 and 05-12-1977 with Unita Blackwell (born 1933). Ms. Blackwell was a field worker for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in 1964 and also served that year as a delegate of the Mississippi Freedom...
Photocopy of a two-page typed letter with a handwritten postscript, dated Friday [June 26, 1964], from Joe Ellin to "Diane and Susan." The letter was written after approximately one week of Freedom Summer training in Oxford, Ohio. Joe describes his...
Running summary of various incidents that occurred during the Mississippi Freedom Project, Summer 1964. Organized chronologically, each entry gives the city and the incident. Includes instances of harassment, hostility, and violence against civil...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Two men labeled, "City council" are shown. One is speaking to the other, who looks dejected. The man is saying, "We might buy NOPSI and part of LP&L...but we can't afford the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Stampone. Four protesters march from right to left in the cartoon, and each carries a picket sign. A woman wearing glasses carries a sign that reads, "Militant teachers." A young male...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Riedell. The hand and coat sleeve of Uncle Sam are shown. Uncle Sam's hand and fingers are bandaged, and the first two fingers are outstretched in a "V." The cartoon caption reads, "As in...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Riedell. The hand and coat sleeve of Uncle Sam are shown. The sleeve is labeled "Surtax," and the hand is reaching into an open coin purse. Above this, the outline of a larger hand labeled...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Riedell. The hand, cuff, cuff link labeled "U.S.," and coat sleeve of Uncle Sam are shown. Uncle Sam is wearing a wedding band labeled "Iowa draftees" on his ring finger. The cartoon...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on March 6, 2009 and April 2, 2009 with James L. Black, a pastor at Faith Tabernacle of Praise in Biloxi, MS. Rev. Black describes the devastation that Hurricane Katrina wrought on the Mississppi Gulf Coast as...
Yearbook photograph with the caption: "When Bennett [Auditorium] closed during the fall for renovations, the UAC [University Activities Council] had to find an alternate location for its popular movie series. The result -- they rented out the old...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. The cartoon has two frames, upper and lower, and the cartoons are identical except for the people shown. In the upper frame Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew are in a rowboat...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eddie Germano. Edward Kennedy is portrayed as a boxer knocking out an opponent with a "1-2 punch." Only the opponent's feet and lower legs on the floor are shown. Kennedy is smiling broadly....
cartoon by Eddie Germano; Two hands are shown. One, labeled "U.S. Millions in Aid to Peru," has a fist full of money. The hand appears to be offering the money. The other hand is labeled "Peruvian Military Grab of U.S. Properties," and it is...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Richard Locher. Caricatures of the faces of Jimmy Carter and Hubert Humphrey are shown. Under Carter is "Peanut butter" and under Humphrey is "& Jolly."
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eddie Germano. Uncle Sam and a Vietnamese man wearing a "coolie" hat with a hammer and sickle on it are sitting at the "Paris conference table." Each has a stack of papers. The world,...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on March 29 and April 13, 1977 with Mr. Amzie Moore at his home in Cleveland, Mississippi. Moore was born on September 23, 1911 in rural Mississippi, on the county line of Carroll and Grenada Counties. In...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Map of Mississippi counties, with larger cities and towns labeled. Locations of Freedom Schools, voter registration activities, "Project Continuing," and community centers throughout the...
