From the Campbell (Will D.) Papers; Copy of a typewritten letter from Will D. Campbell to Sally Smith, dated January 11, 1957, written in response to earlier correspondence. Campbell advises Smith to approach her parents calmly with regard to the...
From the Campbell (Will D.) Papers; Copy of a typewritten memo from Will D. Campbell to Dr. J. Oscar Lee, dated August 25, 1958. Campbell expresses hesitation in abandoning Christians in Mississippi working on behalf of the civil rights movement,...
From the Campbell (Will D.) Papers; Copy of a typewritten letter from Will D. Campbell to Rev. Charles Jones, dated November 14, 1963. Campbell discusses the pressures on members of the clergy from opponents of the civil rights movement. Many...
From the Campbell (Will D.) Papers; Copy of a typewritten letter from Will D. Campbell to Maxwell Hahn, dated November 17, 1963, regarding the funding of the Committee of Southern Churchmen by the Marshall Field Foundation. Campbell reports on the...
From the Campbell (Will D.) Papers. Copy of a typewritten letter from Will D. Campbell to Dr. Harold Fleming, dated May 13, 1964. Campbell discusses a recent meeting between a member of the Committee of Southern Churchmen and the administrative...
From the Campbell (Will D.) Papers; Copy of a typewritten letter from Will D. Campbell to William H. Willis, dated May 4, 1961, and written in response to a letter from Willis. Campbell maintains that he can do nothing to aid the cause of the...
From the Campbell (Will D.) Papers; Copy of a typewritten letter from Will Campbell to Merrimon Cuninggim (spelled Cunningim in the document) of the Danforth Foundation, dated May 15, 1964. As the Director of the newly-formed Committee of Southern...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on June 18, 1980 with Charles Hudson Griffin (born 1926). Griffin served in the office of U. S. Congressman John Bell Williams until 1968 when he campaigned for the position himself. He served three terms...
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Written by Clara Bates Doty. Published in Boston by D. Lothrop and Company, c1885. On the cover: Little B-peep, Wee Willie Winkie, Sleeping beauty. Contents: Cinderella ; Jack and Jill ; Little...
From the Campbell (Will D.) Papers; Copy of a typewritten letter from Will D. Campbell to Rev. Ray Gibbons, dated May 12, 1964, regarding the intentions of the Committee of Southern Churchmen in Mississippi. Campbell discusses the current...
From the Campbell (Will D.) Papers; Copy of a typewritten letter from Will D. Campbell to Sam H. Franklin, dated November 5, 1964, in which Campbell provides information regarding civil rights activities in Mississippi. He notes that Franklin...
From the Campbell (Will D.) Papers; Memo from Will D. Campbell to Dr. W.C. Fields, dated February 18, 1965, entitled "Race in Public Relations" Campbell writes to Fields, the Director of Public Relations for the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC)...
From the Campbell (Will D.) Papers; Typewritten letter from Garry Oniki, Executive Coordinator of the Committee for Racial Justice Now, to Will D. Campbell, stamped May 20, 1964. The writer requests that Campbell write a letter to the Federal...
From the Map Collection. A map showing the segment of the Mississippi River bordered by Rodney, Mississippi and St. Joseph, Louisiana lying between Natchez and Vickburg. Text on map reads, "Reconaissance for the use of the Mississippi Squadron Rear...
From the Map Collection. A map showing the segment of the Mississippi River. Text on map reads, "Reconaissance for the use of the Mississippi Squadron Rear Admiral D.D. PORTER U.S.N. Comdg. By F.H. GERDES, Assistant UNITED STATES COAST SURVEY A.D....
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...
Oral history.; Mr. Mayo D. Wilson, a native of Cary, Mississippi, is a graduate of Tougaloo College and a veteran of the Korean War. Following a two-year service in the Army, Mr. Wilson returned to Mississippi where he taught math and science at...
Oral history.; Borganelli discusses her teaching career and family, public education in Mississippi, the Mississippi Humanities Council, and race relations in Mississippi.
Oral history.; Three interviews conducted on August 8 and 10, 1976 and October 19, 1976 with Jesse Boyce Holleman (born 1924). He served in the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1947 until 1953. At that time, he became district attorney for...
