Finding aid for manuscript collection. ; Copies of newspaper clippings and programs collected by the Dahmer family in 1966, 1968-69, and 1986. Clippings focus on the death of Vernon F. Dahmer and the trials of those men arrested in the case. For...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on September 17, 1980 with the Honorable Tony Byrne, former mayor of Natchez, Mississippi at his office in the Natchez City Hall. Byrne was born on May 18, 1936 in Natchez, Mississippi. He attended Mississippi...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Louisiana attorney general Jack P.F. Gremillion, dressed in swim trunks, is walking down steps into deep water. The steps are labeled (from highest to lowest), "Relationships...
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...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on February 26, 1974 with Mr. Brodie Crump at his home in Greenville, Mississippi. Crump was born in 1898 in Greenville, Mississippi. After attending Mississippi A&M College, now Mississippi State University,...
Oral history.; Born on October 20, 1939, in Sandy Ridge, Lowndes County, Alabama, Mr. Loyce Searight moved with his family to Biloxi, Mississippi, in March of 1947. He graduated from M.F. Nichols High School and went on to earn several other...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on August 26, 1975 with Earl W. Banks, 1905-1986. He enrolled at Alcorn University in Lorman, Mississippi, for one year, then transferred to Jackson State University where he completed high school. He continued...
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 Hattiesburg Historical Photographs; Photograph of a formal Portrait of W. S. F. (Willie Sion Franklin) Tatum, mayor of Hattiesburg from 1922-1925, and 1929-1937. Mr. Tatum was also the owner of Tatum Lumber Company.
Letter from Samuel J. Gholson in Verona, Mississippi, to Brigadier General Daniel Ruggles in Columbus, Mississippi, recommending Captain J. F. White instead of Major Inge for command of troops in the First Military District. Gholson was a native of...
From the Map Collection. Map of a stretch of the Mississippi River from Sargent's Bend to Grand Gulf that shows changes in the course of the river from the Davis Cut Off in 1867 to 1874. Surveys were completed in 1866 by Green, Porter, etc., with...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on August 21, 1972 with the Honorable Russell C. Davis in his office in Jackson, Mississippi. He was born in Rockville, Maryland. After completing two years at the University of Maryland, Davis took employment...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on January 23, 1973 with Mr. William Dukes in his office in Gulfport, Mississippi. Dukes was born in the Sullivans' Hollow area near Raleigh, in Smith County, Mississippi on January 15, 1927. After his discharge...
From the Campbell (Will D.) Papers; Typewritten memo from Dr. Huber F. Klemme, Associate Director of the Council for Christian Social Action, to Selected Ministers and Laymen of the United Church of Christ, no date given. The Council for Christian...
Letter from Lewis McNeely in Water Valley, Mississippi, to Rev. Eli F. Cooley of Trenton, New Jersey, dated 10 March 1849, requesting release from the New Brunswick Presbytery so that he can preach to two congregations in the Chickasaw Presbytery...
From the Gordon (Albert F.) Freedom Rider Collection.; Report from the Special Agent in Charge (SAC), New Orleans, to the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), dated October 11, 1961. Includes a summary of actions taken against the...
