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 Bill Severn Papers.; Comic book pages from "A Man Named Adelai Stevenson" in Adlai Stevenson volunteer's work kit (1952) used for research in Bill Severn's Adlai Stevenson: Citizen of the World (1966). 8" x 10.5"
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 Ben-Ami (Rabbi David Z.) Papers. The author urges Mississippians to resist the Civil Rights Bill and join a white boycott of Hattiesburg businesses whose owners and corporate partners are identified as supporters of civil rights.
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...
From the Campbell (Will D.) Papers; Notes regarding P.D. East and the future of his newspaper, The Petal Paper. The writer had been in touch with East to gather information regarding the precarious future of his paper after suffering economic...
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...
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 May 17, 1972 with Associate Justice Thomas Pickens Brady, of the Supreme Court of Mississippi in his chambers in Jackson, Mississippi. This is the second part of an interview conducted on March 4, 1972 with...
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. ; Materials collected by Neil R. McMillen, reflecting principles, activities, and personalities of the Citizens' Council, the Ku Klux Klan, as well as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored...
Transcribed copy of a memo describing three bombings that took place on June 22, 1964, in McComb, Mississippi. The homes of Fred Bates, C. C. Bryant, and Corline Andrews were bombed.
Transcribed copy of a typewritten document entitled "Message from Mississippi," produced by the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission. This address was prepared for individuals who volunteered to speak publicly on behalf of the Mississippi State...
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...
Oral history.; Mr. Alton G. Bankston was born outside of Laurel, Mississippi on June 5, 1941. Mr. Bankston majored in political science and history at Jones County Junior College and attended the University of Southern Mississippi. In 1963 he...
