From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eddie Germano. A husband and wife are in their home, he sitting in a chair reading a newspaper and she standing nearby holding a travel brochure. She is dreaming about traveling to Europe for a...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Riedell. Uncle Sam stands on the globe at the western edge of the United States, facing west over the Pacific Ocean. Over the horizon, a woman labeled "Red China" has eaten part of a onion...
From the Emilie and Marie Stapp Collection. Pamphlet featuring photos of President Woodrow Wilson, Commander in Chief of Allied Armies on the Western Front Marshal Foch and General John Pershing of the American Armies of France.
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Two Freedom Summer volunteers -- one Caucasian female and one African American male -- relax and talk together on the grounds of Western College for Women in Oxford, Ohio, during the second...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Four African American women relax on the grass during the second SNCC Orientation Session at Western College for Women located in Oxford, Ohio, between June 22 and 27, 1964. Annie Devine may be...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Volunteers play touch football on the campus of Western College for Women during the second SNCC Orientation Session located in Oxford, Ohio, between June 22 and 27, 1964.
From the Map Collection. A map of the eastern United States excluding the majority of Florida and Maine. Western bounding is the approximate location of the Mississippi River.
From the Spight (Thomas) Letters. Pages from a diary written by Thomas Spight, Spight, a member of the 34th Mississippi Infantry during the Civil War, dated 18 March - 14 April 1865. Spight describes his unit's march from Augusta, Georgia,...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; A close-up of the SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) staff leading a large group of volunteers in singing Freedom Songs in an auditorium during the second SNCC Orientation Session...
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 Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Three pairs of Freedom Summer volunteers are seated on the lawn at Western College for Women in Oxford, Ohio, site of the second SNCC Orientation Session held between June 22-27, 1964. In the...
Oral history.; An interview with Linda Hayles conducted on August 1, 2006. A former resident of New Orleans, Louisiana, Ms. Hayles discusses her experience evacuating before Hurricane Katrina as well as in its aftermath.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on August 25, 1971 with Erskine Caldwell (1903-1987). Mr. Caldwell was a prominent American author whose works include Tobacco Road, (1932) and God's Little Acre (1933).
Transcribed copy of a journal written by Joseph Ellin in which he discusses government and political issues in relation to racial discrimination, education, economic conditions, and other aspects of society and culture in Mississippi.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on January 4, 2006 with Eddie Williams, a member of the North Carolina Baptist Men, who describes his efforts with this volunteer organization on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
Transcribed copy of an essay on African-American history from 1900-1964, written by Otis Pease for Mississippi Freedom Project workers. Includes brief biographies of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois, and mentions the Myrdal study.
Zoya Zeman's senior thesis was written after her participation in the Mississippi Freedom Project in the summer of 1964. Putting her work into context, she begins with a description of the background history of Mississippi. Zeman then recounts her...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on January 21, 2006 with Natalie C. Brown. Miss Brown lived near the Tulane campus during Hurricane Katrina and describes her evacuation and return to the city.
