A collection of eight interviews with participants in the Mississippi civil rights movement. The people interviewed discuss how they came to participate in the civil rights movement, their various activities, including voter registration, Freedom...
A dispatch sent by Brigadier General John C. Breckinridge to Colonel H. P. Brewster in Corinth, Mississippi, apparently in response to his request for information on Union troop movements in northeast Mississippi, and warning about a potential...
An order written by Confederate General Robert E. Lee, dated 3 February 1864, to a division commander, General Jubal Anderson Early. Lee commends units of the Army of the Tennessee that have re-enlisted in the Confederate Army, specifically Hart's...
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.; Interview conducted on May 18, 1972 with Ms. Ruby Magee at College Hall at the University of Southern Mississippi. Magee was born in 1940 in Tylertown, Mississippi. In 1962, she received a BA in history and political science from...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on July 12, 1973 with Mr. Jerry Clower at his office in Yazoo City, Mississippi. Clower was born in 1926 at Route Four, Liberty, Mississippi. After graduating from high school, he joined the U.S. Navy. On...
Finding aid for manuscript collection. ; This collection includes various legal briefs and transcripts from civil liberties cases (1967-1970) in which Charles Morgan, Jr., Director of the Southern Regional Office, American Civil Liberties Union,...
Pamphlet from the Adams (Victoria Gray) Papers. Pamphlet designed by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) to inform civil rights workers of their legal rights if arrested and questioned by the police. Prepared in reaction to a...
Photograph of a Lady Eagles basketball player (No. 15) with the ball in the Metro Conference Ladies Championship game against Memphis State. Featured in the 1985 Southerner yearbook on page 86.
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 Adams (John Q.) Letters. Letter from John Quince Adams to his wife, Sarah Adams, dated 11 May 1862, written from Shiloh, Tennessee. Adams, who served in Co. E., 60th Regiment of the Illinois Volunteers during the Civil War, writes about...
From the Lovell (Mansfield) Letters. Letter from Mansfield Lovell to his wife Emily, dated 22 September 1861, was written from Bowling Green, Kentucky, where Lovell was awaiting orders following his attachment to the Confederate Army. Lovell...
From the Spight (Thomas) Letters. Letter from Thomas Spight to Virginia Barnett, dated 13 April 1864, written from camp near Dalton, Tennessee. Spight, a member of the 34th Mississippi Infantry during the Civil War, writes to his cousin and future...
From the Spight (Thomas) Letters. Letter from Virginia Barnett to Thomas Spight, dated 9 August 1865; written from near Cotton Grove, Tennessee. Virginia Barnett is the cousin and future wife of Spight, a member of the 34th Mississippi Infantry...
A message sent by George G. Garner, Assistant Adjutant-General of Bragg's Second Corps from Jackson, Tennessee, to Brigadier General Daniel Ruggles at Corinth, Mississippi, dated 9 March 1862, ordering General John King Jackson to command the Third...
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...