Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on June 18, 1992 and March 9, 1993 with Mr. C.B. "Buddie" Newman at his home in Valley Park, Mississippi. Newman was born on May 8, 1921 in Valley Park, Mississippi. In 1942, he left his job with the Southern...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on May 1, 1972 with Dr. Aaron Henry in his drugstore in Clarksdale, Mississippi. Henry was born on July 2, 1922 in Clarksdale, Mississippi. After serving in World War II, he went to Xavier College (now Xavier...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on September 20, 1979 with Dr. Dewey Lane at the Robinson Lane Surgical Clinic in Pascagoula, Mississippi. Lane was born on September 27, 1934 in Starkville, Mississippi. He attended Vanderbilt University from...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on August 25, 1971 with Erskine Caldwell (1903-1987). Mr. Caldwell was a prominent American author whose works include Tobacco Road, (1932) and God's Little Acre (1933).
From the Campbell (Will D.) Papers; Handwritten account of the student walk-out that occurred at Alcorn A & M College (now Alcorn State University) in Mississippi in March 1957. The protest was a result of a controversy related to Professor...
From the Campbell (Will D.) Papers; Handwritten account of the student walk-out that occurred at Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical College (now Alcorn State University) located near Lorman, Mississippi. The student protest called for the...
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. A typed letter addressed to Friends that describes their work in and around Batesville, Mississippi, on voter registration. They also mention developments in registration across the state. The...
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. Two-page report by Rita Walker about the December 1965 ASCS (Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service) elections in Mississippi's Marshall and DeSoto counties. A federal program, the...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Copy of the newsletter for the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) for January 1966. Includes a report of a visit by Representative Joseph Resnick (D-NY) to Mississippi. A...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Memo from Victoria Jackson Gray (Adams) to friends and supporters of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP), dated February 10, 1966. Describes the current situation in the...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Report describing the beginning of the Mississippi Freedom Labor Union (MFLU), which was founded in Shaw, Mississippi, to work for higher wages for cotton choppers and truck drivers. ...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Report prepared by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) that lists incidents of harassment, discrimination, and violence against African Americans and civil rights...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; The newsletter of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), this issue of the Voice (Vol. 6, no. 6; formerly titled the "Student Voice") is dated December 20, 1965. Includes...
From the Hazelton (Margaret J.) Freedom Summer Collection; One black-and-white photograph, taken by Rev. Frazer Thomason, of two unidentified African American males on a break from chopping cotton in Clarksdale, Mississippi.
From the Hazelton (Margaret J.) Freedom Summer Collection; One-page report published in association with the Mississippi Freedom Project. The report describes the Federal Programs Project, which made information about legal and financial aid more...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; The 120 African-American members of the Panola County Okra Cooperative initially produced and sold okra mainly in Memphis, Tennessee, markets, but future plans are to produce and sell other cash...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; This report documents the economic conditions in the South in the 1960s, and it addresses ways of bringing the region up to the standard of the northern half of the country. The document...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Brief letter from Miller to Margaret [last name unknown], which includes an account of a labor dispute (presumably in California).
From the Southern Tourism Collection. The pamphlet created by the Hattiesburg Chamber of Commerce extols the virtues of Hattiesburg and the surrounding areas. The author discusses the state of Hattiesburg in the 1920s and explains things such as...
From the United States Forest Service, Harrison Experimental Forest Station Collection. Photograph of Good Hereford cattle, privately owned, on improved pasture at the McNeill branch farm of the Mississippi Agricultural Experimental Station.
