From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Uncle Sam fires a shotgun labeled "War on anything and everything" into a cloud of currency and coins labeled "Billions in $pending [spending] as a cure." Uncle Sam has his eyes...
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of guardsmen outside of the courthouse in Laurel, Mississippi, during the first trial of Willie McGee. McGee was escorted to the trial under armed guard out of fear...
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of Willie McGee to his first trial in Laurel, Mississippi. McGee, who was accused of raping a white woman, was tried three times and found guilty each time. This...
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of guardsmen escorting Willie McGee to his first trial in Laurel, Mississippi. McGee was escorted to the trial under armed guard out of fear of a lynching. McGee,...
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of Willie McGee to his first trial in Laurel, Mississippi. McGee, who was accused of raping a white woman, was tried three times and found guilty each time. This...
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of guardsmen escorting Willie McGee to his first trial in Laurel, Mississippi. McGee was escorted to the trial under armed guard out of fear of a lynching. McGee,...
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of guardsmen outside of the courthouse in Laurel, Mississippi, during the first trial of Willie McGee. McGee was escorted to the trial under armed guard out of fear...
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of Willie McGee to his first trial in Laurel, Mississippi. McGee, who was accused of raping a white woman, was tried three times and found guilty each time. This...
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of guardsmen in a truck with Willie McGee during his first trial in Laurel, Mississippi. McGee was escorted to the trial under armed guard out of fear of a lynching....
From the Whyte (Iain) Civil Right Collection. This collection contains slides from Reverend Whyte's time in Mississippi during the summer of 1964 in Greenville and Jackson. There are two groups of slides: Group A, which Rev. Whyte took himself in...
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...
Transcribed copy of a letter written by Nancy Ellin requesting help in building up the book collection in the Hattiesburg Freedom Library. Specific needs include books about African-American history, books about civil rights and the Freedom...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A tow truck with "We tow anything" on the door and two men in the cab is being driven into a vehicle garage with "Constitutional repairs & service" on the sign above the door....
From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection. This document contains details of events from July 2-5, 1964, relating to the Mississippi Freedom Project. It describes harassments, scare tactics, threats, and violence that the civil rights...
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 Whyte (Iain) Civil Right Collection. This collection contains slides from Reverend Whyte's time in Mississippi during the summer of 1964 in Greenville and Jackson. There are two groups of slides: Group A, which Rev. Whyte took himself in...
