From the Higdon (May) Collection. A program for the 100th Anniversary of the Organization of East Fork Church in Amite County, Mississippi, dated September 10, 1910.
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs; Photograph of members of the 152nd Infantry during World War I. Some are on horseback and others are on foot.
From the Ben-Ami (Rabbi David Z.) Papers. This small slip of paper advocates hate as a positive virtue and labels persons as fence straddlers if they will not commit to active involvement in hate groups. The paper instructs recipients of the...
From the Camp McCain, Mississippi World War II Slides. Photograph (from a color slide) of the company taking a "10-minute break" at Camp McCain, near Grenada, Mississippi, in the Spring of 1943. Photograph taken by Lt. Omer Austin Heacox, who was...
From the Camp McCain, Mississippi World War II Slides. Photograph (from a color slide) entitled "Come and Get It" of the mess line at Camp McCain, near Grenada, Mississippi, in the Spring of 1943. Photograph taken by Lt. Omer Austin Heacox, who was...
From the Camp McCain, Mississippi World War II Slides. Photograph (from a color slide) entitled "Rest" at Camp McCain, near Grenada, Mississippi, in the Spring of 1943. Photograph taken by Lt. Omer Austin Heacox, who was with the Military Police...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. A record of race-related violence in Mississippi from January 1961 to February 1964, with a brief paragraph for each incident. Illustrated.
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. Black-and-white photograph of young people dancing at the Freedom House in Holly Springs, Mississippi.
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...
From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection.; Photograph taken in September 1964 of a Freedom Summer worker and an African American child, both unidentified. The two are sitting on a porch of the Ruleville Community Center, and the civil rights...
From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection.; Photograph taken in September 1964 of a Freedom Summer worker and an African American child, both unidentified. The two are smiling for the picture while sitting on the porch of the Ruleville...
From the Zoya Zeman Freedom Summer Collection. Transcribed copy of the diary of Dean Hay, a Presbyterian minister from Nebraska, in which he details his trip to Hattiesburg, Mississippi, in February of 1964. The goal of this trip was to aid in the...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; In this memo, lawyers for the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party present and address questions that were raised regarding the legality of the 1964 Congressional Challenge. The authors cite...
One-page document dated December 4, 1871 and drafted by the Mississippi State Legislature requesting return of Federal lands first granted in 1856 for the purpose of building the Gulf and Ship Island Railroad. The Gulf and Ship Island Railroad was...
From the Political Campaign Collection. Political handout from Dennis Murphree, expressing his appreciation to voters following the 8 August 1939 election where he elected for the third time as Mississippi's Lieutenant Governor. According to the...
From the McAtee (William "Bill" G.) Civil Rights Collection; This collection contains an original curriculum packet given out at the SNCC-NCC training site in Oxford, Ohio, for Freedom Summer workers going to Mississippi. It is accompanied by...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Curriculum suggestions for prospective freedom school teachers. Table of contents delineates three distinct curriculum areas: academic, citizenship, and recreational and artistic; document...
From the Ingram-Day Lumber Company Photographs Collection. Photograph of a grove of red and white oak trees. The original caption reads, "A Red Oak and A White Oak at Woodbluff, Alabama."
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...
