From the Margaret Thatch Hinton Collection. The "Know Mississippi Better" train newsletter, Mississippi A' Roll, volume 3, number 1 on 26 August 1927. The newsletter was written and distributed during the course of the train tour. This issue was...
From the Margaret Thatch Hinton Collection. Typewritten letter from Dennis Murphree, Governor of Mississippi, dated 31 July 1928. Includes information regarding a reservation for the "Know Mississippi Better" train of 1928.
From the Margaret Thatch Hinton Collection. Typewritten letter from Dennis Murphree, Governor of Mississippi, dated August 15, 1927. Includes information regarding a reservation for the "Know Mississippi Better" train of 1927.
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Memo from Council of Federated Organization leaders to national civil rights leaders and notable figures, including Martin Luther King, Harry Belafonte, Ossie Davis, Marlon Brando, and others....
From the Political Campaign Collection. Official ballot for the Democratic primary election for Clay County, Mississippi. Includes Democratic nominees for governor: M.S. (Mike) Conner, Albert C. Anderson, Dennis Murphree, and Theodore Bilbo.
From the Political Campaign Collection. Political handout from Dennis Murphree, expressing his appreciation to voters following the 8 August 1939 election where he elected for the third time as Mississippi's Lieutenant Governor. According to the...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; A group of local people and Freedom Summer volunteers sit on a tractor at the fish fry given for the volunteers by local civil rights leader Vernon Dahmer on the Dahmer property in the Kelly...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Local teenager Doug Smith drives one of Vernon Dahmer's tractors pulling a flat bed hauling group of Freedom Summer volunteers. The group includes Arthur Reese (holding a radio), Terri Shaw...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on April 14, 1972 and January 25, 1973 with Mississippi civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977). Hamer was a leading figure in the MFDP. She is best known for her 1964 national television...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on April 16, 1985 with Mr. Thomas Y. Minniece. Minniece was born in Meridian, Mississippi on October 9, 1912. He received a BA degree from the University of Texas in 1933 and a law degree from the University of...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on March 29 and April 13, 1977 with Mr. Amzie Moore at his home in Cleveland, Mississippi. Moore was born on September 23, 1911 in rural Mississippi, on the county line of Carroll and Grenada Counties. In...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on June 7, 1999 with Terri Shaw (born 1940). Ms. Shaw graduated from Antioch College in Yellow springs, Ohio, in 1963, then went to work for the Buffalo (NY) Courier-Express before spending the summer in...
Transcribed copy of a booklet describing the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO). Includes the structure and history of the organization as well as a list of COFO programs.
Oral history.; Interview conducted on July 25, 1991 with Mr. Maurice Black at his home near North Carrollton, Mississippi. Black was born on October 18, 1915, near Flora, Mississippi, in Madison County. After graduating from Hinds Junior College...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on September 2, 1976 with the Honorable Hervey O. Hicks at his home in Benton, Mississippi. Hicks was born on a farm near Benton, Mississippi, in Yazoo County in 1900. In 1931, he ran a successful campaign for...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on July 30, 1980 with Mr. Erle Johnston at his home in Forest, Mississippi. Johnston was born on October 10, 1917 in Garyville, Louisiana. In 1941, he moved Forest, Mississippi and bought the fledgling newspaper,...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on August 15, 1978 with Mr. Thomas Y. Minniece. Minniece was born in Meridian, Mississippi on October 9, 1912. He received a BA degree from the University of Texas in 1933 and a law degree from the University of...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on July 7, 1976 with Mr. P.A. Tims of Poplarville, Mississippi. Tims was born on October 20, 1890 in Ethel, Mississippi. In 1912, he enrolled in the first class to convene on the campus of the newly established...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on August 30, 1978 with Thomas Jefferson Tubb (born 1899). Mr. Tubb served as chairman of the Clay County Executive Committee for 47 years from 1928 to 1975 and during the Dixiecrat movement from 1950 to 1956....
