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...
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...
A letter from Milton W. Shaw, a corporal with the 5th Iowa Volunteers, to his friend Alf Giague in Birmingham, Iowa. Shaw was on board the naval transport Von Phul with Grant's troops who, in early 1863, entered the Yazoo Pass and attempted to...
A letter, dated 20 January 1883, from Ralph North in Natchez, Mississippi, to Sergent Prentiss Nutt concerning information on a Federal seizure of coal boats belonging to the Nutts in 1863. Information about the incident was sought for use in the...
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...
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,...
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...
Copy of a handwritten letter from Rabbi Philip M. Posner to the family of Rabbi Charles Mantinband. Posner offers sympathy for the death of Mantinband and comments on the Rabbi's courage and dedication to civil rights.
Finding aid for manuscript collection. ; In his six-page memoir, Dr. Anthony Harris recounts events in his life from ca. 1964 to 1977. He includes his participation and arrest in a voting rights demonstration, his role in the integration of...
Flyer from the Campbell (Will D.) Papers; Flyer that reads,"Ku Klux Klan Rides Again," posted to gain support for the Aryan Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. According to the flyer, all inquiries were to be directed to Horace Sherman Miller of Waco,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Ed Valtman. Lyndon Johnson and Nguyen Van Thieu are each on a tree branch which almost, but do not quite, meet in the middle of the cartoon. Johnson has climbed far out on his branch, and is...
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 de Grummond Children's Books collection. By Madame d'Aulnoy. Published in New York by McLoughlin Bros., Inc., circa 1877. Cover title. Includes publisher's advertisement. Part of Aunt Louisa's big picture series.
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...
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Published in Boston by DeWolfe, Fiske & Co., circa 1890. Title and imprint from cover. Figure of Red Riding Hood on cover folds out.
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Published in New York by McLoughlin Bros., Inc., circa 1880. Cover title. Caption title: Old fables in a new dress. In verse. Includes publisher's advertisement.
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Published in New York by McLoughlin Bros., Inc., circa 1880. Title, imprint, and series statements from cover. P. [2] and [3] of cover included in pagination. "New picture books for little...
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. Published in Paris by Edmond Schoemaeker, Libraire-éditeur and Imprimé par Ogden et Cie., in London, circa 1870. Cover title. Printer from p. 6. Illustrations signed "Kronheim and Co.,...
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...
