Oral history.; Mr. Harold Ray Presley was born in Tupelo, Mississippi, on October 5, 1948. In 1968 he was drafted into the Army and served in Vietnam for four years. Mr. Presley married and became the father of two sons and a daughter. Elvis...
Oral history.; Mr. Terry Allen Broadus was born on October 11, 1938. Mr. Broadus enrolled at Perkinston Agricultural High School in 1952 and later received a baseball scholarship to attend Perkinston Junior College. In the late 1960s, Mr. Broadus...
Oral history.;Mr. F.W. Bishop was born on December 11, 1897, near Shaw, Mississippi. His family farmed in the Skene community before moving to Cleveland, Mississippi, in 1911. Mr. Bishop began his education in a one-room schoolhouse in Skene and...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on November 11, 1995 with Larry Rubin (born 1942). In 1961, he helped to register voters in the South for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. In late 1963 and in 1964, Mr. Rubin worked as a civil rights...
From the Emilie and Marie Stapp Collection. Amelia Siedler was 10 years when she created this diary documenting her family's move from Iowa to Arkansas in a covered wagon from 28 December 1895 - 27 February 1896.
From the Emilie and Marie Stapp Collection. Amelia Siedler was 10 years when she created this diary documenting her family's move from Iowa to Arkansas in a covered wagon from 28 December 1895 - 27 February 1896.
From the Kate Greenaway Papers. Autograph letter signed. 4 pp. on 1 folded leaf. (15 x 10 cm.) To Helen from Kate Greenaway at Hampstead, dated Good Friday [4 April] 1890.
From the Kate Greenaway Papers. Autograph letter signed. 4 pp. on 1 folded leaf. (15.5 x 10 cm.) With envelope. To Lady Maria [Ponsonby] from Kate Greenaway at Hampstead, dated 26 July 1897.
From the Kate Greenaway Papers. Autograph letter signed. 4 pp. on 1 folded leaf. (15 x 10 cm.) To Lady Dorothy from Kate Greenaway at Hampstead, dated 28 December 1900.
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; List of nine bills signed into law by Mississippi Governor J. P. Coleman. The list was compiled to show Coleman's support of racist policies as demonstrated by his passage of bills...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; The newsletter of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), this issue of the Voice (Vol. 6, no. 4; formerly titled the "Student Voice), is dated July 1965. Coverage includes...
From the Circus, Minstrel and Traveling Show Collection. An illustrated route book of Ringling Bros.' World's Greatest Shows for the 1894 season titled Beneath White Tents. The route book was a recorded account of the circus season, and was made...
From the Hamlett (Ed) White Folks Project Collection. The letter from Anne Braden to Ed [Hamlett] is typed on Southern Conference Educational Fund (SCEF) letterhead. It concerns Ed''s wish to apply for work and funding through a new Student...
From the Meridian Light and Railway Company Minute Book Collection. Photograph of a one volume, four hundred page Secretary's Record book detailing the minutes of the Meridian Light and Railway Company from February 18, 1901 to July 18, 1910....
From the Quantrill (William Clarke) Research Collection; Letter from Captain William H. Gregg to William E. Connelley, regarding the death of William Clarke Quantrill's mother. Newspaper clipping is included.
From the Quantrill (William Clarke) Research Collection; Transcribed account of Quantrill's gang at Baxter Springs written by Connelley as told by Gregg.
From the Hamlett (Ed) White Folks Project Collection. In Susan Solf's letter to Ed [Hamlett], Mississippi state director of the White Folks Project (WFP), she writes of her inability to raise enough money to travel to the training session as the...
From the Quantrill (William Clarke) Research Collection; Letter from Captain William H. Gregg to William E. Connelley, regarding McFarland's comments on Quantrill; political comments on the South. Three newspaper clippings are included.
