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...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on November 20, 1998 with Jason York, marketing manager for Silver Star Resort and Casino. Born in Philadelphia, Mississippi, York describes his experience of Choctaw culture in the context of American society.
Oral history.; Interview conducted on June 26, 1979 with Mr. William J. Simmons at his office in Jackson, Mississippi. Simmons was born in 1916 in Utica, Mississippi. He attended Millsaps College and Mississippi College, graduating from the...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on May 14, 1996 with Frances Thornton Smith (born 1916). In 1971, the year that elementary schools were integrated, Smith volunteered to teach at Fair Elementary School, an African-American school in Pascagoula,...
Photocopy of a two-page typed letter from Nancy Ellin that is undated and not addressed to a particular person. Nancy writes of a visit from Joe's friend, Yale professor Dick Bernstein, and Nancy teaching her Freedom School students about the...
Photocopy of a two-page typed letter to Susan written by Joe Ellin on [August 17, 1964?]. SNCC, Friends of SNCC, and ties with Michigan are each discussed. Integration, WMU faculty, and schools are spoken of in the same paragraph. Joe suggests a...
From the Earle E. Johnston Papers. Transcribed copy of a typewritten document entitled "Attitudes in Mississippi," written by Erle Johnston in December 1967. Johnston describes what he considers to be the prevailing attitudes in Mississippi in the...
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Collected and revised by Benjamin Tabart. Published in London by Sir Richard Phillips and Co., Bride Court, Bridge Street, circa 1818. "Contains twenty-six choice pieces of fancy and fiction, by...
A letter from Gerard Chittocque Brandon, Governor of Mississippi, to John Murphy, Governor of Alabama, dated 9 January 1829, requesting an answer to a letter of the preceding October. Brandon's correspondence concerned unsettled accounts between...
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Published in Otley, UK, by Yorkshire J.S. Publishing & Stationery Co., circa 1840. Cover title. Publisher from back wrapper. Approximate date from Osborne Coll. "Printed for the...
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. By Clement C. Moore and illustrated by Thomas Nast. Published in New York by McLoughlin Bros., Inc., ca. 1860. Cover title. Running title: A visit from St. Nicholas. Contains six full-page...
From the McLoughlin Brothers Papers. Proof of title page (2 part color separation) for Cross Child (New York: McLoughlin Bros., [ca. 1860]) Young America series, from the books series of the McLoughlin Brother Papers. The McLoughlin Brothers Papers...
From the Harris (Merry B.) Papers. Letter from W. E. Wormell in Aiken, South Carolina, to Merry B. Harris in Gallatin, Mississippi. Mr. Wormell describes the festivities celebrating the secession of South Carolina from the Union. Harris was a...
From the Harris (Merry B.) Papers. letter from the "Copiah County Military Aid Society" (Mrs. S. J. Morehead, President and Mollie Brown, secretary), to Captain M.B. Harris. It is sent via a Mr. Johnston, along with various clothing articles for...
From the Harris (Merry B.) Papers. Color enhanced computer scanned image of a photograph of Merry B. Harris in his Confederate Army uniform. Harris was a resident of Copiah County, Mississippi. He served as a captain and later colonel of the Pettus...
From the Harris (Merry B.) Papers. This document contains 15 articles dealing with the organization of the company, election of officers, procedural questions, and responsibilities of members. Harris was a resident of Copiah County, Mississippi. He...
From the Harris (Merry B.) Papers. Bond dated 29 January 1861, and signed by Captain Merry B. Harris in the amount of $900 is for the purchase of 60 muskets. Harris was a resident of Copiah County, Mississippi. He served as a captain and later...
From the Harris (Merry B.) Papers. This letter is an order from W.H. Brown to muster the Westville guard of Simpson County, Mississippi. Harris was a resident of Copiah County, Mississippi. He served as a captain and later colonel of the Pettus...
From the Harris (Merry B.) Papers. Letter from Julia Thompson Chrisman in Hazlehurst, Mississippi, to Captain M.B. Harris, dated May 3, 1861, asking Harris to accept "this simple gift" in token of her appreciation for his service in his country's...
From the Harris (Merry B.) Papers. Letter to Confederate President Jefferson Davis from W.H. Brown, Madison MaAfee, and A.B. Dilworth recommending Harris to Davis, and expressing Harris' desire to raise a volunteer regiment. Harris was a resident...
