From the Zwerling (Matthew) Freedom Summer Collection,; Photograph of civil rights volunteers taken at the Freedom Summer Training Session in Oxford, Ohio, in 1964. The training session was held to prepare volunteers for work in Mississippi. Andrew...
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 Eldon Pletcher. The cartoon has two panels, left and right. The left panel shows a military tank labeled "Sinai withdrawal" and has a Star of David. A construction sign in the foreground is...
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 Bill Severn Papers.; Comic book pages from "A Man Named Adelai Stevenson" in Adlai Stevenson volunteer's work kit (1952) used for research in Bill Severn's Adlai Stevenson: Citizen of the World (1966). 8" x 10.5"
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Three local African American children stand in the exhibit area of the Palmers Crossing Community Center where Freedom School students' art work is on exhibit. The large sign with handprints...
Amendment: To Senate Bill (S.129) to provide for the employment of free negroes and slaves to work upon fortifications, and to perform other labor connected with the defenses of the county.
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 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 AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man labeled "Congress" sits on top of a cactus labeled, "Election year politics." He is holding a long piece of paper labeled, "Remaining work load." The burning sun is...
From the Adams County Police & Miscellaneous County Records. Approval of bridges built by George Weldon and authorization to pay for work. Signed by police commissioner, 26 October 1841.
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs. Bynum Lumber Company locomotive #346 at work in the woods hauling logs. The company was located in Lamar County, Mississippi.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. An officer labeled "Open meeting law" carries a baton labeled "Judge's ruling" and rings the doorbell outside a meeting roomdoor in a hallway. A man has opened the door, and he...
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs; Photograph of a Clyde two-line skidder machine operating in an area of cleared forest. This machine could drag logs to the railhead from half a mile away.
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; July-August issue of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) bi-monthly newsletter, the Core-Lator. Issue number 107 features an article about the murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman,...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Curriculum guidelines for freedom schools; includes headings for leadership development, remedial academic work, contemporary issues, and non-academic curriculum.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. George Wallace is dressed as a boxer and is hitting two punching bags, one with his left hand and one with his right. One punching bag is drawn to resemble the head of a donkey,...
Handwritten diary kept by Didamie Emaline Hicks Fike for September 1843. The diary provides insight into daily life in a rural community in old Spartenburg County, South Carolina, and reveals the lifestyle of subsistence farmers which was hard and...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Jon Kennedy. A zoo keeper wearing coveralls labeled "92nd Congress" and carrying a lunchbox walks briskly away from his work when he sees the time on his pocket watch. He had been near the open...
