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 AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Jon Kennedy. A man in judge's robes labeled "Fortas" and carrying a briefcase walks up the steps to the Supreme Court building. A ragged looking dog labeled "Wolfson affair" follows him. The...
cartoon by John Stampone; A giant-sized, shabbily dressed hobo sits on the steps of the Capitol building. His hat, labeled "Left-over problems," is pulled down low over his eyes. A second man carrying a briefcase labeled "91st Congress" walks up...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; The calendar explains the steps of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party's (MFDP) Congressional challenge and the dates or time frame of each step.
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Local activists Gladys Young (left) and Gracie Hawthorne (right) sit on either side of Sandy Leigh, SNCC Field Secretary and Director of the COFO-Hattiesburg Project. They are on the steps...
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...
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...
Photograph of an editorial cartoon entitled, "Social Hour at the P.O." Drawing of students sitting on the steps of the post office entrance, another student asks, "Has the mail came?" Also found in Dearly Bought, Deeply Treasured on page 24, and in...
cartoon by Ed Valtman; A line of Congressmen leads away from the steps of the Capitol building. The Congressman at the head of the line holds a banner that reads "Equal time for Congress" The Congressmen that follow in the line are walking in...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; A group of children attending a Freedom School class at Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer in 1964, sit on the church steps with their teacher. The...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Volunteers and local African American residents mingle on the front steps of St. Paul United Methodist Church after a Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) meeting during Freedom Summer...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; After a caucus of the 5th Congressional District of a unit of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) at St. John United Methodist Church at Palmers Crossing in Hattiesburg,...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Local African American civil rights activist Gladys Young (left) and SNCC Field Secretary and Director of the COFO-Hattiesburg Project Sandy Leigh (right) sitting on the steps of the COFO...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Close-up of local activist Gracie Hawthorne sitting on the steps outside COFO-Hattiesburg project headquarters in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer, 1964.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Louisiana attorney general Jack P.F. Gremillion, dressed in swim trunks, is walking down steps into deep water. The steps are labeled (from highest to lowest), "Relationships...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 24, 1972 with Dr. William Penn Davis at his home in Jackson, Mississippi. Davis was born in Union County, Mississippi on August 5, 1903. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Mississippi College in...
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...
