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 July 24, 1964. Discusses the success of recent precinct meetings as well as work for the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP). Zwerling also...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on March 19, 2008 with Vincent Creel. An employee of the City of Biloxi, Mr. Creel discussesthe city's preparation, response and recovery from Hurricane Katrina.
From the Spears (Lawrence D.) Civil Rights Collection. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) teletype from the New Orleans office to the Director dated July 24, 1964. States that the case involving the attack on Lawrence Spears, David Owen, and...
From the Adams (Victoria Gray) Papers. Typewritten letter from Victoria Jackson Gray (Adams) to Congressman John J. Conyers, Jr. dated June 24, 1966, in which Gray solicits support for the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. Describes the...
From the Adams (Victoria Gray) Papers. Newsletter for Southern Conference Educational Fund (SCEF) staff, dated May 24, 1968. Includes activity updates by SCEF staff members and discusses the Deep South Project, Southern Mountain Project, and...
From the Belcher (Granville W. and Mary Caroline) Letters. Granville W. Belcher, a farmer from Martinsville, Henry County, Virginia, served in company F, 57th Virginia Infantry during the Civil War. Belcher writes to his wife, Mary Caroline, on...
From the Beauregard (Pierre Gustave Toutant) Papers. A response to Brigadier General John H. Winder in Richmond, Virginia, written by and at the command of General Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard from Charleston, South Carolina, headquarters of...
From the Weston (John) Letters. Letter from John Weston to Ezra Weston of Boston, Massachusetts, dated 24 November 1845, contains the text of a letter John Weston had received from Edmund Weston of Randolph, Vermont.
From the Zwerling (Matthew) Freedom Summer Collection. Typewritten letter from Congressman William F. Ryan to Dr. Israel Zwerling dated June 24, 1964. Ryan relates his efforts to involve the President, Attorney General, and other Federal...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Typewritten letter from Lawrence Guyot, Chairman of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) to friends of the party, dated May 24, 1965. The letter serves as a briefing on a...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Letter from the staff of the Mississippi Freedom Project to volunteers and friends, written on about October 24, 1964. Discusses the increasing incidents of police misconduct and...
A Bill: To be entitled, "An Act authorizing the promotion of officers, non-commissioned officers and privates, for distinguished valor and skill or for peculiar competency and general merit. By Mr Wickham; Read first and second times, and referred...
Joint Resolutions: Of the General Assembly of the State of Alabama in relation to impressments and the schedule of prices fixed by Confederate Commissioners. By Mr. Chilton; Referred to Special Committee on Impressments, and ordered to be printed...
Joint Resolution: For the relief of Major W.F. Haines. By Mr Clopton; Placed on the Calendar and ordered to be printed. Reported by Committee on Claims as a substitute for the original bill by the Congress of the Confederate States of America on 24...
A Bill: To be entitled, "An Act to establish a Bureau of Foreign Supplies." By Mr. Perkins, from the Committee on Foreign Affairs; Read first and second times, placed upon the calendar, and ordered to be printed by the Congress of the Confederate...
A Bill: To be entitled, "An Act to lay a tax for revenue to provide for the common defense and carrying on of the Government of the Confederate States." By Mr. Sexton; Read first and second times, referred to Committee of Way and Means, and ordered...
A Bill: To be entitled, "An Act to authorize the 2d Auditor of the Treasury, or a Commissioner, to be appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury with the consent of the President, to take proof as to the expenditures of the State of Tennessee, in...
