Browse Items (2053 total)

Yearbook photo of Fannie Lou Hamer speaking at Mississippi State in 1969. She was invited by the Afro-American Plus club, which was organized in 1968.

Correspondence from Fannye Rhodes to her husband, Luther, while he served overseas in Burma during World War II. In the letter, she writes about the couple's friends, Bill and Jeanne. Fannye relates that "[Bill has] gotten his artificial leg and foot…

Correspondence from Luther W. Rhodes to his wife, Fannye. In the letter he describes the incredible heat he has experienced while serving in India and states, "My cloth is just as wet as wet can be darling."

Signature of Elzy A. Richards from a petition to Governor Ames.

Photograph of Amzie Moore.

Profile of Louis Kossuth Atwood from The National Cyclopedia of the Colored Race, Vol I