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...
Transcribed copy of a typewritten letter from P. D. East to Theron Lynd, dated November 26, 1962. East makes reference to an incident in which Lynd publicly accused him of being a communist and demands that Lynd either prove his accusation or go...
Transcribed copy of a typewritten letter from P.D. East to friends, dated November 13, 1962, in which East discusses the continuous harassment to which he is subjected in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. He also mentions the case of Clyde Kennard, an...
From the East (P.D.) Collection. Typewritten copy of an address by P.D. East titled "On the attainment of distinction" and delivered at Vassar College in December 1962. East discusses his newspaper, The Petal paper, public and commercial...
Letter from E.D. Walcott of Walnut Hills, Mississippi,to his "brother" Hugh White of Allentown, Pennsylvania, containing family and economic news along with political comments about Andrew Jackson, dated 3 September 1828.
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...
Oral history.; Mr. Wesley C. Webb was born in Biloxi, Mississippi, on April 2, 1938. After his graduation from high school, Mr. Webb entered the Navy, boarding the U.S.S. Helena for Japan. For two years and nine months, Mr. Webb served in the...
Oral history.; Ms. Margaret Keith Andresen was born in Biloxi, Mississippi on May 3, 1943. She attended Perkinston High School and the Perkinston Campus of Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College. As a teacher at Moss Point High School from...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; The letter from J. D. Smith to friends in the North describes the conditions he has encountered in Amite County, Mississippi, and outlines some of the civil rights programs that are being...
From the Harwell (J.D.) Letters. Letter from James Daniel Harwell to J.E. Boos of Albany, New York, dated 22 February, 1923. This is one in a series of 3 letters in the collection that describe Harwell's experiences during the siege of Vicksburg in...
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 Campbell (Will D.) Papers; Copy of a typewritten letter from Will D. Campbell to Gayraud Wilmore, dated January 10, 1964. Campbell discusses services provided by the Committee of Southern Churchmen, and gives information about a...
Finding aid for manuscript collection. ; The collection consists of pamphlets, books, reports and speeches concerning communism, fascism, civil rights, desegregation, and other race-related matters collected by William D. McCain. The collection...
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...
Materials in this collection were donated by William M. Colmer: First accession-1970. Additional information online at: http://www.lib.usm.edu/legacy/archives/m024.htm
Oral history.; Norman discusses the creation and work of the Mississippi Humanities Council, the people responsible for its early development, and its programs concerning race relations and public education.
Oral history.; Interview conducted on October 7, 1976 with Dr. W. B. Thompson at his office at Mississippi College in Clinton, Mississippi. Thompson was born on November 5, 1920 in Columbus, Mississippi. After returning from service in World War...
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.; Reverend Robert L. Hartenfeld was born on February 19, 1935, in Pemberville, Ohio. He earned a B.A. from Capital University and a Master's of Theology from Trinity Seminary of Columbus, Ohio. Reverend Hartenfeld helped to start up...
