From the Hamlett (Ed) White Folks Project Collection. Dial Parratt, a Princeton University student from Mississippi, writes to a friend, Hunter (last name unknown), to inquire about a freedom march in which Princeton students were invited to...
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. Letter from Rita Walker to Kathy Dahl. Walker writes from Aurora, Illinois, about the lack of jobs in Mississippi. She writes that African Americans did not make use of opportunities to talk to...
Oral history.; Three interviews conducted on April 28, 30 and May 7, 1981 with Mr. Claude Ramsay at his office in Jackson, Mississippi. Ramsay was born in 1916 in Ocean Springs, Mississippi. He served briefly in the Civilian Conservation Corps...
From the Hamlett (Ed) White Folks Project Collection. The letter from Charles Smith to Ed [Hamlett] bears a stamp from the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) chapter at The University of Texas at Austin. Smith writes that he has applied to the...
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. Four-page letter authored by civil rights activist Ned Opton. Opton writes from Palmer's Crossing, near Hattiesburg, Mississippi, to coworkers and friends about the political, economic and social...
From the Hamlett (Ed) White Folks Project Collection. Anne Strickland writes to Ed Hamlett, Mississippi state director of the White Folks Project (WFP), to tell him she will miss the training sessions. She also writes that she will probably be...
From the Camp (David A.) Letters. Letter from David A. Camp, captain in Company D of the 16th Battalion of Georgia Calvary (also called the Georgia Partisan Rangers), to his wife Anna Camp. In his letter dated 5 August 1862, Camp writes from Camp...
From the Camp (David A.) Letters. Letter from David A. Camp, captain in Company D of the 16th Battalion of Georgia Calvary (also called the Georgia Partisan Rangers), to his wife Anna Camp. In his letter dated 1 November 1862, Camp writes from a...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. Hubert H. Humphrey, dressed in cowboy attire, rides a snorting, bucking donkey, with its hind legs and hindquarters in the air. Beneath the donkey's suspended hind legs is a cloud...
cartoon by Vic Runtz; A worried looking American eagle has alighted on a branch. It drips blood labeled "Staggering waste in defense spending" from its breast. Below the branch a bear looks intently at the eagle. In the lower right corner, a cat...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. A Vietnamese military officer drives a vehicle labeled "Viet Nam" under a prominent, hot sun. An insect is flying around the officer's head, its buzzing wings making the sound...
cartoon by Arthur Henrikson; A census taker stands on a front door stoop and writes in a ledger labeled "1970 Census" The owner of the house stands with his elbow leaning against the door jamb and looks very impatient with the census taker who asks...
cartoon by John Riedell; A student sits at a desk with a piece of lined paper in front of him. He rests his head on his left hand. He thinks about writing on the paper; in his imagination, this is what he writes:"School is like going to the...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on July 28, 1981 with Reverend Clinton Collier at the Methodist Church in Morton, Mississippi. Collier was born on August 24, 1910 [i.e. 1909] in rural Neshoba County. After completing the eighth grade, which...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on June 1, 2007 with Dr. Ethelyn Patricia ""Pat"" Joachim. Associate Provost for the University of Southern Mississippi Gulf Coast, Dr. Joachim describes the impact of Hurricane Katrina on her own home as well...
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.
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...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on November 12, 1997 with Winifred Green (born 1937). After earning a bachelor's degree in English from Millsaps College in 1963, Mrs. Green and four other women formed Mississippians for Public Education, one...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on June 9, 1977 with the Honorable Herman B. DeCell in his office in Yazoo City, Mississippi. DeCell enrolled at the University of Mississippi but with the start of World War II, he was called to service. After...
Oral history.; Mr. King T. Evans was born on March 19, 1913 near Uniontown, Alabama, in Perry County. In 1925, Mr. Evans moved to Mississippi with his parents. His father was a mechanic and farmer. For a brief period, Mr. Evans attended the...
