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...
Oral history.; Four interviews conducted on June 11, September 26, October 10, and November 21, 1985 with Ms. Ruby Magee in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Magee was born on August 12, 1940 in Tylertown, Mississippi. In 1962, she received a BA in...
Carbon copy of a five-page typed Report on the Library written on August 26, 1964 by Nancy Bowles Ellin. The report lists book loan procedures and policies. The main library in the project's headquarters and branches at Mt. Zion Baptist Church, the...
Transcribed copy of a letter written by Nancy Ellin requesting help in building up the book collection in the Hattiesburg Freedom Library. Specific needs include books about African-American history, books about civil rights and the Freedom...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 26, 1977 with William Joel Blass (born 1917). As a lawyer in 1952, he successfully prosecuted the Boyce Holleman case by proving that voter fraud had kept Holleman from winning. Beginning in 1953, he...
A Bill: To be entitled, "An Act to compensate Charles E. Stuart, Israel C. Owings and J.H. Taylor for the use of an improvement in instruments for sighting cannon." By Mr. Funsten, from a Special Committee; Read first and second times, placed on...
A Bill: To provide for the appointment of a Directing General of the armies of the Confederate States. By Mr Sparrow, from the Committee on Military Affairs; Read first and second times, considered, postponed till to-morrow, and ordered to by...
A Bill: To be entitled, "An Act to prevent trading with the enemy or with persons resident in the United States." By Mr. Foote; Read first and second time, referred to Judiciary Committee, and ordered to be printed by the Congress of the...
Amendment: To Bill to authorize the consolidation of companies, battalions and regiment. By Mr Hanly; Ordered to by printed by the Congress of the Confederate States of America on 19 December 1864.
A Bill: To be entitled, "An Act repealing certain abatements from the property tax and income tax, and amending the said tax laws.". By Mr. Lyon, from the Committee on Ways and Means; Read first and second times, made continuing special order after...
A Bill: To be entitled, "An Act to provide for auditing and paying for horses and equipments taken from dismounted cavalrymen for the use of the Government. By Mr Akin; Read first and second times, placed on the Calendar, and ordered to e printed...
Resolutions: Adopted by Humphrey's Mississippi Brigade, Army of Northern Virginia, 03 February 1865. Presented by Mr. Barksdale; Ordered to be laid on the table and printed by the Congress of the Confederate States of America on 06 February 1865.
Resolutions: Resolved, That, under the Constitution, Congress alone has the power to declare war, and the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, the power to make a treaty of peace. By Mr. Miles; Referred to Committee on...
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...
A Bill: To be entitled, "An Act to suspend the collection of the text in kind in certain cases." By Mr. De Jarnette; Read first and second times, and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means and ordered to be printed by the Congress of the...
Resolution: Of the Legislature of the State of North Carolina in relation to the pay of disabled soldiers. By Mr Graham; Read, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed by the Congress of the Confederate States of...
A Bill: Declaring the mode of ascertaining the value of the deliverable to the Government under existing laws. By Mr Semmes, from the Committee on Finance; Read first and second times and ordered to be placed upon the calendar and printed by the...
A Bill: Making appropriations to supply a deficiency in the appropriation for the Department of Justice for the half year ending 31 December 1864. By Mr. Lyon, of the Committee of Ways and Means; Read first and second times, laid on the table and...
