Oral history.; An interview conducted on June 13, 2006 with Jennifer Walley, who was a nurse in Picayune, Mississippi, during Hurricane Katrina. Miss Walley describes her preparations for the storm as well as the hurricane's impact on Crosby...
From the Spears (Lawrence D.) Civil Rights Collection. Untitled Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) memo summarizing two statements given to the FBI regarding the attack on Lawrence Spears, David Owen, and Rabbi Arthur Lelyveld on July 10,...
From the Campbell (Will D.) Papers; Copy of a typewritten letter from Will D. Campbell to Gayraud Wilmore, dated January 10, 1964. Campbell discusses services provided by the Committee of Southern Churchmen, and gives information about a...
Carbon copy of a typewritten letter from Dr. Israel Zwerling to President Lyndon B. Johnson, dated August 10, 1964, in which Zwerling appeals to Johnson for justice for murdered civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Typewritten letter from Nancy Ellin to the editor of the Gazette, dated December 10, 1964, in reaction to a speech given by acting Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach. Ellin voices her...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Rabbi Arthur J. Lelyveld shortly after he and fellow voter registration volunteers Lawrence Spears and David Owen were attacked by two Caucasian men from Collins, Mississippi. The assault took...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; David Owen receiving treatment for head and arm injuries sustained after he and fellow voter registration volunteers Lawrence Spears and Rabbi Arthur J. Lelyveld were attacked by two Caucasian...
From the Adams (John Q.) Letters. Letter from John Quince Adams to his wife, Sarah Adams, dated 10 June 1862, written from a camp near Booneville, Mississippi. Adams, who served in Co. E., 60th Regiment of the Illinois Volunteers during the Civil...
Letter from John Anthony Quitman, governor of Mississippi to the governor of Connecticut, Thomas Hart Seymour (unnamed in the document), dated 10 June 1850. Two copies of the laws passed in the last Mississippi legislative session were being...
Letter from Lewis McNeely in Water Valley, Mississippi, to Rev. Eli F. Cooley of Trenton, New Jersey, dated 10 March 1849, requesting release from the New Brunswick Presbytery so that he can preach to two congregations in the Chickasaw Presbytery...
From the Margaret Thatch Hinton Collection. The "Know Mississippi Better" train newsletter, Mississippi A' Roll, volume III, section XIII on 10 September 1927. The newsletter was written and distributed during the course of the train tour. This...
From the Margaret Thatch Hinton Collection. Breakfast, lunch and dinner menu for the "Know Mississippi Better" train on 10 September 1927, Jackson, Tennessee, to Jackson, Mississippi on the Gulf, Mobile, and Northern Railroad.
From the Paul B. Johnson Family Papers. Erle Johnston, Jr., director of the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission, writes to Governor Paul B. Johnson, Lieutenant Governor Carroll Gartin, and E.K. Collins on 10 March 1964, concerning the alleged...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Memo from Victoria Jackson Gray (Adams) to friends and supporters of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP), dated February 10, 1966. Describes the current situation in the...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; News release by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) dated December 10, 1964. Provides a brief history of the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO), as well as...
A Bill: To be entitled, "An Act to prevent trading with the enemy or with persons resident in the United States." By Mr. Foote; Read first and second time, referred to Judiciary Committee, and ordered to be printed by the Congress of the...
A Bill: To be entitled, "An Act to provide payment for slaves impressed under State laws, and lost in the public service." By Mr. Baldwin; Read first and second times, and referred to Committee on the Judiciary. January 18 - Reported back, placed...
Joint Resolutions of confidence in and thanks to President Jefferson Davis. By the Chair; Laid on the table and ordered to be printed by the Congress of the Confederate States of America on 10 January 1865.
A Bill: To provide for raising two hundred thousand Negro troops. By Mr. Oldham; Read first and second times, referred to Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to by printed by the Congress of the Confederate States of America on 10 February...
Letter to Hon. W. R. Smith form G. Tochman and correspondence. Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed by the Congress of the Confederate States of America on 10 March 1863.
