Oral history.; Interview conducted on June 8, 1976, with Will D. Campbell. Mr. Campbell, born in Amite County, Mississippi, was ordained as a pastor at the age of 17. He first became aware of race relations during time spent in the military, when...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on June 26, 1979 with Mr. William J. Simmons at his office in Jackson, Mississippi. Simmons was born in 1916 in Utica, Mississippi. He attended Millsaps College and Mississippi College, graduating from the...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on September 18, 1980 with Phillip West (born 1946). He has served as president of the NAACP of Adams County and as second vice-president for the state.
Oral history.; Peoples discusses his presidency at Jackson State University, racism in the Marine Corps in the 1940s, the Mississippi Humanities Council, and race relations in Mississippi.
Oral history.; Dr. John Paul Quon was born June 11, 1942, in Moorhead, Mississippi. His parents emigrated from China to Mississippi to participate in a family-owned grocery store. Dr. Quon was in the first public school class in Mississippi that...
Oral history.; Four interviews conducted on October 1, 2, and 23 of 1975, and July 1, 1976 with Mr. Hugh Clegg at his home in Anguilla, Mississippi. Clegg was born on July 17, 1898 in Mathiston, Mississippi. Clegg graduated from Millsaps...
Oral history.; Mr. Jack Raymond Reed was born on May 19, 1924, in Tupelo, Mississippi. In 1941, Mr. Reed graduated from Tupelo High School and he then entered the military and World War II as part of the Signal Intelligence Service, U.S. Army of...
From the Quantrill (William Clarke) Research Collection; Letter from Captain William H. Gregg to William E. Connelley, regarding the death of William Clarke Quantrill's mother. Newspaper clipping is included.
From the Quantrill (William Clarke) Research Collection; Letter from Captain William H. Gregg to William E. Connelley, regarding McFarland's comments on Quantrill; political comments on the South. Three newspaper clippings are included.
From the Quantrill (William Clarke) Research Collection; Letter from William E. Connelley to Captain William H. Gregg, regarding Lawrence, Kansas, Raid: Copy of the newspaper article, " Gov. Robinson in the Raid," with comments; Sara Robinson's...
From the Ben-Ami (Rabbi David Z.) Papers. This is the first page of an issue of The Temple journal, showing an article promoting a speaking engagement of Rabbi Ben-Ami on April 4, [1965]. Ben-Ami's topic was Jews in the Civil Rights Movement. Also...
From the Campbell (Will D.) Papers; Copy of a typewritten letter on letterhead of the Committee of Southern Churchmen from Will D. Campbell to David Mathis, editor of Sidelines, dated October 28, 1968. Campbell discusses an article printed in a...
From the Adams (Victoria Gray) Papers. Article reprinted from Soul Force, the journal of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), dated March 31, 1968. Discusses the foundation of SCLC, led by Martin Luther King, Jr. The article...
From the Adams (Victoria Gray) Papers. Draft of an article about the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) published in the Southern Patriot. Discusses MFDP's trip to the Democratic National Convention in 1964, as well as future plans.
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Reprint of Stokely Carmichael's article, What we want, which had been published in The New York Review of Books. Carmichael discusses Black power, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee...
Photocopy of a two-page typed and handwritten letter, dated [July 11, 1964] from Joe Ellin to "kids" [Susan and Diane]. In this document, Joe's frustrations are evident in the tone he uses in writing. He talks of a lack of teaching materials in the...
A four-page typed letter to the Editor of the Kalamazoo Gazette from Joe Ellin [?], dated August 1, 1964. The letter describes the public school system in Hattiesburg and Forrest County, Mississippi. Integration and segregation in the schools and...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; March-April issue of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) bi-monthly newsletter, the Core-Lator. Issue number 105, features an article about Freedom Day in Canton, Mississippi, held on...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; September-October issue of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) bi-monthly newsletter, the Core-Lator. Issue number 108 features an article about a round-the-clock silent vigil...
Transcribed copy of a speech given by Victoria Jackson Gray (Adams) during her campaign for the United States Senate in 1964. Discusses Section I, Title I of the Civil Rights Bill and its effects on African Americans in Mississippi. Also describes...
