Transcribed copy of a report by the General Legislative Committee of Mississippi based on findings from an investigation of the occupation of the University of Mississippi in 1962 by the United States Department of Justice. Action was taken in...
From the Jan Pienkowski Papers.; Production sheet with four block color print dummy pages per sheet from Jan Pienkowski 's Bel and Bub and the Bad Snowball (2000). 8.5" x 11"
Photograph of Courtney Blades, when she became a member of the Southern Miss Athletics Legends Club during the Homecoming 2000 halftime ceremonies. Featured in the Talon, vol. 54, no. 2 (Fall 2000), p. 22.
Photograph of running back Derrick Nix, who was selected to the preseason all-conference team. Featured in the Alumni Association's publication, Talon, vol. 53, no. 4 (Spring 2000), p. 22.
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...
Photograph of Fred Lewis, basketball coach, and Nick Revon. Revon became Mississippi's first to be initiated into the elite 2000 Club of basketball. Featured in the 1954 Southerner yearbook on page 287.
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...
From the Charles Ghigna Papers.; Hand-decorated necktie sent to Charles Ghigna by students at Thomas Street Elementary School in Tupelo, Mississippi (2000).
Photograph University President Horace Fleming and Gene Carlisle, President of Carlisle Corp., as they flip burgers at the announcement of Carlisle's gift of the Wendy's Restaurant on Westover Drive in Hattiesburg to the USM Foundation. Featured...
Photograph of University President Horace Fleming, Dr. John Edmond Gonzales, and former president Dr. Aubrey Lucas at the dedication of the Liberal Arts Building auditorium to Dr. Gonzales. Featured in the Talon, vol. 53, no. 4 (Spring 2000) on...
Finding aid for manuscript collection. ; The collection consists of a four-page typewritten report authored by Rev. Faulconer in November 2000 concernig his work as a Freedom Summer volunteer in 1964. The report describes his experience...
Typewritten letter from Matthew Zwerling to his parents, Israel and Florence Zwerling, and Sara, dated June 23, 1964. Discusses voter registration canvassing activities, other aspects of his work in and around Clarksdale, Mississippi, as well as...
