cartoon by Bob Taylor; There are two scenes in this cartoon. In the first scene, a man stands with his back facing forward. The back of his coat is labeled "Congress," and it looks like someone is hugging him. In the second scene, the man is...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. Uncle Sam walks past a sign post on which are two signs pointing in opposite directions. The sign that points in the direction Uncle Sam is walking reads "Nuclear non-proliferation...
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.; 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...
From the Zoya Zeman Freedom Summer Collection. Transcribed copy of the diary of Dean Hay, a Presbyterian minister from Nebraska, in which he details his trip to Hattiesburg, Mississippi, in February of 1964. The goal of this trip was to aid in 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 Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Typewritten letter from Betty Garman, Northern coordinator for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), to SNCC volunteers. Garman thanks the volunteers and solicits...
From the Zwerling (Matthew) Freedom Summer Collection. Copy of a typewritten letter from Dr. Israel Zwerling to President Lyndon B. Johnson dated July 8, 1964. Zwerling describes his position as the father of a civil rights volunteer in the...
Typewritten letter on United States Senate letterhead from New York Senator Jacob K. Javits to Dr. Israel Zwerling, dated July 2, 1964. Javits thanks Zwerling for his recent letter concerning the safety of students participating in civil rights...
From the Zwerling (Matthew) Freedom Summer Collection. Typewritten letter from Senator Jacob K. Javits to Dr. Israel Zwerling, dated July 7, 1964. Javits thanks Zwerling for his letter about the safety of civil rights workers James Chaney,...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Letter from Karen Pate of the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) to friends, dated June 11, 1965. Pate thanks friends for their financial support and requests further support. ...
From the Campbell (Will D.) Papers; Copy of a typewritten letter from Leslie W. Dunbar to Rev. J. Martin England, dated September 23, 1963, in which Dunbar thanks Rev. England for his concern about the loss of ministers in the South. Many...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; Margaret Madrid's letter to the editor of the San Francisco Chronicle thanks the paper for publishing her daughter's letter from Mississippi, and begs them to include two paragraphs that they...
Typewritten letter from Matthew Zwerling to his parents, Israel and Florence Zwerling, dated August 6, 1964. Zwerling updates his parents on his activities, including his efforts to set up contacts in Tunica, Mississippi, for SNCC (Student...
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. Three-page letter written by Rita Walker addressed to Kathleen Dahl. Walker thanks Dahl for sending money and reports on the progress of a number of community development projects in the area.
From the Adams (Victoria Gray) Papers. Copy of a typewritten letter from "The FDP Congresswoman"(Victoria Gray) to Congressman William Fitts Ryan. Gray expresses appreciation on behalf of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) for...
Transcribed copy of a letter from Zoya Zeman to her father, dated July 3, 1964, 9:10am. Zeman writes that she is safe and staying at the home of Dr. Aaron Henry in Clarksdale, Mississippi. She is having an enjoyable time, but needs to work on...
Joint Resolutions of confidence in and thanks to President Jefferson Davis. By the Chair; Laid on the table and ordered to be printed by the Congress of the Confederate States of America on 10 January 1865.
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...
