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
Typewritten letter from Matthew Zwerling to his parents, Israel and Florence Zwerling, dated August 17, 1964. Discusses plans to return home from Mississippi.
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.; An interview conducted August 29, 2006 with Pam McVey, a nurse at Biloxi Regional Medical Center, who describes Hurricane Katrina's devastating effects on the hospital and its patients.
From the Zachary Ball Papers.; A typescript page (p. 126) from Zachary Ball's The Conquerers (ca. 1971), with a letter from Ball's literary agent Ralph Autry on the reverse dated November 17, 1961; 8 x 11
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Newsletter entitled "The Voice of the Movement," distributed by the Hattiesburg, Mississippi, branch of the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO), dated August 17, 1964. Volume 1,...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Statement by James Farmer, National Director of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), issued on May 17, 1965, in support of the Congressional Challenge of the Mississippi Freedom...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Statement by John Lewis, Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), issued on May 17, 1965, in support of the Congressional Challenge of the Mississippi Freedom...
From the Campbell (Will D.) Papers; Copy of a typewritten letter from Will D. Campbell to Maxwell Hahn, dated November 17, 1963, regarding the funding of the Committee of Southern Churchmen by the Marshall Field Foundation. Campbell reports on the...
Copy of a typewritten letter from Rabbi Jacob K. Shankman to Mrs. Anna Mantinband dated October 17, 1974, in which Shankman offers sympathy at the death of Rabbi Charles Mantinband. Shankman expresses his admiration for Mantinband for his...
A printed copy of the speech delivered in the House of Representatives by Democrat Reuben Davis on 17 February 1859, defending his party's spending record and discussing a proposed revenue tariff.
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Memo from the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, dated January 17, 1965, that summarizes the second stage of the Congressional Challenge. States the reason for the challenge and...
A Bill: To be entitled, " An Act to amend An act entitled, 'An act to regulate the destruction of property under military necessity and to provide for the indemnity thereof'." By Mr. Foster; Read the first and second times and ordered to be printed...
An Act: To reduce the currency and to authorize a new issue of notes and bonds. Enacted by the Congress of the Confederate States of America on 17 February 1864.
Message of the President. By the Chair; Laid on the table and ordered to be printed by the Congress of the Confederate States of America on 17 January 1865.
From the Margret and Hans Augusto Rey Papers.; Copy of H.A. Rey's handwritten letter to President Richard Nixon re: the Vietnam War dated 17 April, 1972. 8.5" x 11"
Photograph of Robert Burns as "General Nat" with Golden Eagle featured in the Student Printz on May 17, 1973. In 1953, General Nat (for Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest) was approved as the Southerners’ mascot. The first General Nat was Archie Hughes,...
