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...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. An address to SNCC staff members and/or civil rights workers and a list of approximately 200 questions about Mississippi history and government. The questions are designed for use as part of 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...
From the Map Collection. Map showing predominant types of trees, prepared by the Forest Survey Staff of the Southern Forest Experiment Station of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service. Includes range and section lines.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Ben Wicks. A man is holding a map and, looking over his shoulder, speaking to Lyndon Johnson. Johnson, who has been looking out a window toward the U.S. Capitol, looks toward the man. The man...
From the Maurer (John B.) Freedom Summer Photographs; Batesville, MS staff joining hands outside. John Maurer writes, "We shall overcome." Left to right: Unidentified woman and man, Claude Weaver, Geoff Cowan, Kathie Amatniek (Sarachild), Luther...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; This photo shows a close-up of Casey Hayden, a SNCC staff member who came to Hattiesburg, Mississippi, from the SNCC headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, during Freedom Summer, 1964.
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; The Clay County, Mississippi, project report notes the progress and proceedings of Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee's (SNCC) ongoing political and economic programs and mentions ideas...
From the Adams (Victoria Gray) Papers. Article reprinted from Soul Force, the journal of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), dated March 31, 1968. Discusses the foundation of SCLC, led by Martin Luther King, Jr. The article...
Yearbook page featuring 1921 editorial staff of the Normal College News; Ruth Lipscomb, C.C. Barefoot, Grace Haley, O.C. Oakes, J.A. Eckhoff, A.G. Edwards, C.J. Darby, and T.P. Scott; 1921 Neka Camon, page 43; 7 x 5
From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection.; Photograph taken from the inside of a bus which was preparing to leave Oxford, Ohio, to go to Mississippi on June 27, 1964. Volunteers and COFO staff outside the buses sang freedom songs to those...
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 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...
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...
