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 McCain (William D.) Pamphlet Collection; In the pamphlet, McCain contends that the United States is constantly losing freedoms due to the centralization of the federal government. He feels that Communism and Socialism are the greatest...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Brief memorandum regarding the legal authority of the federal government in matters related to civil rights. According to the memo, the federal government has the authority in court to...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Transcript of a radio program; the text is critical of Mississippians for ignoring the authority of the federal government and its law.
Transcribed copy of a typewritten document by Reverend Bob Beech, director of the Hattiesburg Minister's Project. He provides an account of the activities and accomplishments of the Delta Ministry in Hattiesburg in 1964 with regard to voter...
Materials in this collection were donated by William M. Colmer: First accession-1970. Additional information online at: http://www.lib.usm.edu/legacy/archives/m024.htm
Oral history.; Interview conducted on August 12, 1977 with Edward L. McDaniel (born 1934). Mr. McDaniel was instrumental in organizing the Ku Klux Klan in 1962 in Mississippi as the Grand Kleagle for the whole state. He started a state Klan in...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 19, 1975 with Otho Monroe (born 1912). Mr. Monroe was superintendent of the Senatobia School District from 1949 until 1968, when he resigned in protest of school desegregation.
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Memorandum describing the legal basis of the Federal government's authority in dealing with civil rights issues, whether by court action or force.
From the Johnston (Erle E., Jr.) Papers; The Program of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party outlines the purpose, goals, and requests of the organization. Explains the discrimination against African Americans in Mississippi, especially with...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on July 30, 1980 with Mr. Erle Johnston at his home in Forest, Mississippi. Johnston was born on October 10, 1917 in Garyville, Louisiana. In 1941, he moved Forest, Mississippi and bought the fledgling newspaper,...
Oral history.; Discusses Clarence Magee's family, his responsibilities on the farm, and first memories of racism. Talks about the African American schools around Columbia, Mississippi. Describes his attempts to register to vote in Hattiesburg and...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. A compendium of political information about Mississippi, including voting and election rules, party and nomination rules, and chapters on federal, state, county, and municipal government. Also...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Article from unidentified magazine about athe Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC); discusses efforts by organized labor and the federal government to weaken or destroy the group.
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Typewritten letter from Joe and Nancy Ellin to friends, no date given. Describes events in McComb, Mississippi, including the arrests of several civil rights workers and other acts of...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ronald Reagan, dressed as a pole-vaulter, carries a pole and runs toward the closing drawbridge of a castle. Between Reagan and the castle is a wide moat. A banner flying from a...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Guidelines for conducting phone calls to influential persons in an effort to solicit Federal support for civil rights workers in Mississippi. Compiled after the murder of three civil...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Text of a November 1964 speech by Robert Moses. He discusses legal difficulties for Blacks and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party's reception at the 1964 Democratic convention.
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. A report of research by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) on the prosecution of Mississippi school districts that refused to integrate.
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Confidential paper dealing with the conclusions and implications of the Freedom Budget, which advocated redistribution of wealth through tax policy; this response examines the fitness of the...
