Transcribed copy of an essay written by a Freedom School volunteer. Describes the locations of the Freedom Schools, subjects taught, enrollment, activities, as well as the students' concerns regarding discrimination. Also discusses the burdens of...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Father Time (with his long beard and hour glass) stands under a sky filled with planets of the solar system. Before him is a counter (table, podium?) on which are a Roman style...
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...
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...
Booklet from the Johnston (Erle E., Jr.) Papers; Booklet distributed by the Coordinating Committee for Fundamental American Freedoms in an effort to explain the origin and purpose of the Civil Rights Act of 1963. The authors argue that the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man is sitting at a desk with nameplate, "State's Civil Service System." He is looking with apprehension at the floor below him where a saw is cutting a large circle. Near the...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Campaign brochure for Paul B. Johnson's 1963 Mississippi gubernatorial campaign; argues that support for the Mississippi Republican party would have disastrous effects on the lives of voters.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Vic Runtz. A mailman in colonial garb rides a horse through a desert scene (cactus and bleached bones can be seen). The horse, with a mail pouch on the saddle and bandages on left hind leg and...
From the Goodyear Yellow Pine Company Photographs. Photograph of the powerhouse at the Goodyear Yellow Pine Company of Picayune, Mississippi. Interior view showing electric motors and a system of drive belts. The photograph was taken by John N....
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...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man labeled "School board" and a woman who has dropped her protest sign are pulling at the arms of a school child, who is stretched between them. The protest sign reads,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. Postmaster General Winton M. Blount drives a truck labeled "U.S. mail system" off of a cliff at a high rate of speed. The truck is propelled by the words "That strike." Blount says,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man in colonial costume is driving a car directly behind a large truck. The trailer has a map of the United States on the side along with the words, "Federal interstate...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ayatollah Khomeini stands in front of a wall covered in vertical and diagonal tick marks and labeled, "Days in the lives of U.S. hostages." He holds a paper with four vertical...
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...
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 July 12, 1973 with Mr. Jerry Clower at his office in Yazoo City, Mississippi. Clower was born in 1926 at Route Four, Liberty, Mississippi. After graduating from high school, he joined the U.S. Navy. On...
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 March 4, 1972 with Associate Justice Thomas Pickens Brady, of the Supreme Court of Mississippi in his chambers in Jackson, Mississippi. Brady was born on August 6, 1903, in New Orleans, Louisiana. He...
