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 de Grummond Children's Books collection. Published in London by George Routledge and Sons. The covers and end-papers were designed by the artist. Errata and addenda inserted between pages 8 and 9.
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...
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...
Photograph of children playing on the Demonstration school. Adults (caregivers? future teachers?) are nearby and appear to be observing. Barns and a water tower are in the background. Photograph featured in the 1922 Neka Camon on page 60.
Photograph of an editorial cartoon entitled, "Social Hour at the P.O." Drawing of students sitting on the steps of the post office entrance, another student asks, "Has the mail came?" Also found in Dearly Bought, Deeply Treasured on page 24, and in...
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...
Photograph of the Innovation and Commercialization Park. The proposed Innovation and Commercialization Park is launched jointly by Southern Miss and the Area Development Partnership funded in part by a $2 million grant secured by Senator Thad...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 24, 1972 with Dr. William Penn Davis at his home in Jackson, Mississippi. Davis was born in Union County, Mississippi on August 5, 1903. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Mississippi College in...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on December 3, 1971 with the Honorable Charles Evers at his office in Fayette, Mississippi. Evers was born on September 11, 1922 in Decatur, Mississippi. In 1950, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in social...
Finding aid for manuscript collection. ; This collection contains materials on Dr. Leslie A. Falk's medical career and his Civil Rights activities in Mississippi, but the bulk of the collection consists primarily of materials on the Underground...
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.
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Memo from Jon Else, Northern Campus Coordinator of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), to all returned summer volunteers, dated November 3, 1964. Discusses the Freedom...
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...
