Oral history.; Interview conducted on July 12, 1973 with Mr. Jerry Clower at his office in Yazoo City, Mississippi. Clower was born in 1926 at Route Four, Liberty, Mississippi. After graduating from high school, he joined the U.S. Navy. On...
Oral history. Interview conducted on March 4, 1972 with Associate Justice Thomas Pickens Brady, of the Supreme Court of Mississippi in his chambers in Jackson, Mississippi. Brady was born on August 6, 1903, in New Orleans, Louisiana. He...
Finding aid for manuscript collection. ; This collection includes various legal briefs and transcripts from civil liberties cases (1967-1970) in which Charles Morgan, Jr., Director of the Southern Regional Office, American Civil Liberties Union,...
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...
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...
A letter from Confederate Private Andrew J. Patrick near Holly Springs, Mississippi, to his father and wife concerning the October 3-4, 1862, battle at Corinth. He discusses the possible capture of his friend, David Haigler, and reveals his concern...
Copy of a typewritten newsletter, the Mantinband Megillah, written in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, from Rabbi Charles and Anna Mantinband to friends, dated New Year 1962. The Mantinbands discuss their health problems, travels for the year, and the...
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 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 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 Gary (Martin Witherspoon) Papers. Letter, dated 13 June 1864 from James Alexander Seddon to Confederate President Jefferson Davis recommending the promotion of Colonel Gary to Brigadier General.
From the Gary (Martin Witherspoon) Papers. Letter, dated 13 June 1864 from Confederate President Jefferson Davis to the Confederate Senate supporting Secretary of War James Alexander Seddon's promotion of Colonel Gary.
From the Johnston (Erle E., Jr.) Papers; Typed letter from Ney M. Gore to William J. Simmons, dated October 12, 1955, written in response to a letter from Simmons discussing the occurrence of maintenance and barratry in South Carolina and...
From the Harris (Merry B.) Papers. Letter from W. E. Wormell in Aiken, South Carolina, to Merry B. Harris in Gallatin, Mississippi. Mr. Wormell describes the festivities celebrating the secession of South Carolina from the Union. Harris was a...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; The index is arranged by subject and includes titles and some publishing information for articles, pamphlets, reports, and other documents within the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights...
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...
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...
A collection of ten 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...
A collection of six 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...
