Bush Begins Asian Tour and Presses Trade Issues
President Bush starts a seven day swing to Japan, South Korea, and China. He urged oil drilling in Alaska’s Arctic Refuge and pressed Chinese leaders on trade as he promotes corporate disclosure reforms tied to Enron. He warned North Korea and others against using weapons of mass destruction.
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Bush
U.S
Congress
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
Alaska
Enron
Washington
North
South Korea
United States
North Korea
America
Iran
Iraq
Laura
White House
Japan
China
Richard M. Nixon
Mississippi Project records civil rights memories through digital archive
SIUC anthropologist Jane H Adams and former NYT photographer D Gorton return to Mississippi to build an oral history archive. They collect interviews, photos, home movies, and documents to capture multiethnic rural dynamics and the civil rights era beyond urban narratives, linking via the World Wide Web for broad access.
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Carbondale
Deep South
Southern Illinois University
New York Times
Mississippi
SIUC
Jane H. Adams
Adams
D. Gorton
Gorton
Ole Miss
James Meredith
SNCC
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Algene Quinn
Hoover and
Freeda Lee
Stanley Sherman
Betty Furniss
Citizens Council
Horace Harned
Starkville
Ruth G. Brent
South
Alyene Quinn
Volunteers propelled civil rights movement in Mississippi
The account recalls Adams and fellow volunteers facing danger as they aided desegregation efforts. They describe hostile pursuit, rural insight aiding courage, and the broader impact including bombings, arrests, Freedom Schools, and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party’s challenge to nation politics culminating in the 1965 voting rights act.
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Adams
Ava
South
Mississippi
Congress of Racial Equality
Mississippi Freedom
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
Atlantic City
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Freedom Summer
Jackson
Chicago
University of Illinois
Illinois
The
Time
Life Inc
Washington Post
Soviet Union
Old Southern Tea Room
Vicksburg
Miss
Dgorton
Harmony
Southern Illinois Partner Plan
Nokia
Southern Illinois
Southern Illinois Unlimited Plan
Firstcellular.com
Benton
Harrisburg Sinois Centre Mall
Lawrencevill Marion
Mt. Carmel
Mt.Vernon Olney
University Mall
West Frankfort
Wal-Mart
Anna
Carmi Benton
Harrisburg
Fairfield
Marion
Mt Vernon Olney
Sparta
Judy Greer
Barb Kinnear
Mike Nolen
Brendan Tolan
Action Pawn
Clearwave Communications
Crossville Communications
Dave's Telephone
Fountain's Gym Girl’s
Hamilton County Communications
Wabash Telephone
Mobile Radio Specialists
Novacom Inc
Shawnee Telephone
First Cellular
SIU Elit A
Siucu
Siucu.org
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!