Fifteen-page typescript of a journal kept by Sandra Adickes during her stay in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, as a volunteer in the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project of 1964. The journal is dated July 10 - August 20, 1964. Adickes discusses her work as...
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Exemplified in a series of figures. Published in London by S. and J. Fuller, in 1810. This copy is the 6th edition. The illustrations are hand-colored cutouts with interchangeable parts. ...
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Pictures by Margaret W. Tarrant. Published in New York by Frederick A. Stokes Company, copyright 1920. Illustrated endpapers. Part of the Mother Goose nursery tales series.
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Published in New York by William Mather, between 1840 and 1860. Cover title. Imprint from back wrapper.
From the Hazelton (Margaret J.) Freedom Summer Collection; Fifteen-page pamphlet published by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)" The pamphlet includes a summarized history of SNCC and a how-to guide for parties interested in...
From the McCain (William D.) Pamphlet Collection; The pamphlet discusses the influence the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) has on U. S. Congressional legislation, and provides a scoreboard of how the U. S. 84th...
From the McCain (William D.) Pamphlet Collection; The pamphlet maintains the 1954 U. S. Supreme Court decision of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, and President Eisenhower's use of federal government troops to integrate Central High School in...
From the McCain (William D.) Pamphlet Collection; The pamphlet presents the southern rationale for segregation, and describes African Americans as having an inherent deficiency in mental ability, and a natural indolence.
From the McCain (William D.) Pamphlet Collection; United States Senator James O. Eastland, from Mississippi, defends states' rights and segregation in schools, proclaims the integration efforts of such organizations as the National Advancement for...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; The material discusses the successes and failures of the Mississippi Freedom Project, and the treatment of its volunteers at various locales in Mississippi.
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; The report gives details about the economic shut out of poor African Americans that occurred during the 1960s due to greater plantation mechanization. The report includes transcribed meetings...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; This issue of the Southern Student Organizing Committee Newsletter (Volume II, no. 4: May 1965) contains articles on civil rights movement projects, fundraising, and arrests as well as a student...
Message of the President to the Senate and House of Representatives; Includes Communication of the Secretary of War, John C. Breckinridge, and a Report of Chief of Nitre and Mining Bureau, by I. M. St. John, Col. and Chief of Bureau.
Oral history; Mrs. Ruth Evans Story was born on October 20, 1943, in Gulfport, Mississippi. She graduated from high school and attended Dillard University in New Orleans. On October 18, 1962, Ms. Ruth Evans married Almer L. Story in Gulfport....
Oral history.; An interview conducted on October 21, 1998 with Kenneth York (born 1948) in Neshoba County, Mississippi. York is an educator and advocate for Choctaw cultural heritage.
Oral history.; Howard Dudley (Blue) Long was born in Tupelo, Mississippi, on October 18, 1927. As a child, Mr. Long canvassed for votes with his father, the chancery clerk, and he heard many political speeches, including some made by Theodore...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on December 18, 1997 with Reuben Anderson. He was the first African-American to graduate from Ole Miss Law School. His professional experience includes the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., 1967-75;...
