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
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 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 Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Unit VII, Part 2 of a larger document. The information is to educate Freedom School teachers and prepare them to converse on topics covered, including the history and goals of the Council of...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on January 26, 1993 with Pete Johnson, nephew of Paul B. Johnson Jr., at his home in Madison, Mississippi. Pete Johnson was born on May 12, 1948 in Alexandria, Louisiana. He received his B.S. degree in business...
Finding aid for manuscript collection. ; This collection consists of 17 photocopied newspaper clippings and one photocopied letter regarding the civil rights movement of the 1960s. For the full finding aid, see...
From the Austin (O.V.) Papers. Telegram dated November 11, 1923, from C. J. McNaspy to Mississippi Normal College coach O. V. Austin about a possible football game in Lafayette, Louisiana, on November 17.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Bob Beckett. An elephant wearing a straw hat labeled "Smith" and a donkey labeled "Yates" stand arm-in-arm (front legs). The donkey's other arm is on the shoulder of a man labeled "Burlington...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Lyndon Johnson and Soviet premier Alexei Kosygin sit on opposite sides of a table that is labeled, "Glassboro N.J. Summit meet...Roughly halfway 'geographically' between New...
From the Ben-Ami (Rabbi David Z.) Papers. The letter from O.J. Keller to Rabbi Ben-Ami is typed on Abraham Lincoln Association letterhead and lists the association's officers and board members in the right margin of the page. Mr. Keller invites...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on November 12, 1981 and February 6, 1982 with Judge J. P. Coleman. Coleman was born on December 9, 1914 in Fentress, Mississippi. After attending the University of Mississippi, he was invited to work in...
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...
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...
Letter from Governor Ridgely C. Powers of Mississippi, to U. S. Attorney General George H. Williams, dated 16 May 1873, suggesting a second individual for the position of United States Marshal in the state. [Powers' first nominee was General E. J....
Oral history.; Mr. Jack Raymond Reed was born on May 19, 1924, in Tupelo, Mississippi. In 1941, Mr. Reed graduated from Tupelo High School and he then entered the military and World War II as part of the Signal Intelligence Service, U.S. Army of...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Hubert Humphrey, driving a car labeled, "Humphrey's campaign image," stops at a gas station with a sign that reads, "L.B.J. Service." Lyndon Johnson is dressed as a gas pump...
Oral history.; Three interviews conducted on December 12, 1975, January 19, 1976, and January 23, 1991 with Mr. C.J. Duckworth in his office in Jackson, Mississippi. Duckworth was born in Summerland, Mississippi, Smith County, on February 25,...
Oral history.; Mr. Terry Allen Broadus was born on October 11, 1938. Mr. Broadus enrolled at Perkinston Agricultural High School in 1952 and later received a baseball scholarship to attend Perkinston Junior College. In the late 1960s, Mr. Broadus...
