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...
Photograph from the Johnston (Erle E., Jr.) Papers; Black-and-white photograph of African-American civil rights activist Aaron Henry, taken in the 1980s.
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Information packet for prospective contributors to COFO's freedom school program; consists of the original proposal for the program, written by Charlie Cobb.
From the United States Forest Service, Harrison Experimental Forest Station Collection. Photograph of William H. McKee, Jr., SO Agronomist, and James Lee Barr of Neighborhood Youth Corps study plants in a greenhouse.
Photograph from the Johnston (Erle E., Jr.) Papers; Black-and-white photograph of African-American civil rights activist Andrew (Andy) Young addressing a group of people.
From the Earle E. Johnston Papers. Transcribed copy of a typewritten document entitled "Attitudes in Mississippi," written by Erle Johnston in December 1967. Johnston describes what he considers to be the prevailing attitudes in Mississippi in the...
Booklet from the Johnston (Erle E., Jr.) Papers; Booklet distributed by the Coordinating Committee for Fundamental American Freedoms in an effort to explain the origin and purpose of the Civil Rights Act of 1963. The authors argue that the...
Photograph from the Johnston (Erle E., Jr.) Papers; Black-and-white photograph of a burned-out vehicle taken during the riots at the University of Mississippi in the fall of 1962. Riots broke out in late September as a result of the integration of...
Photograph from the Johnston (Erle E., Jr.) Papers; Black-and-white photograph of Byron de la Beckwith taken in July 1963. Beckwith was convicted in 1994 for the 1963 murder of NAACP field secretary and civil rights activist Medgar Evers.
Photograph of students in front of a streetcar by the campus gate in 1915; 9 x 6. Pictured: Alberta Powe (front) Jeanette McCormick, Velma Morrison, Janie Sullivan and Mabel Mixon (back, left to right). Also found in "Hattiesburg: A Pictorial...
Photograph from the Johnston (Erle E., Jr.) Papers; Black-and-white photograph of African-American civil rights activist Charles Evers speaking into a microphone which he is holding in his hand. Evers' brother was Medgar Evers, field secretary for...
From the Johnston (Erle E., Jr.) Papers; Copy of an article addressed to the Scott County Times by Erle Johnston, Jr., also labeled as "Chapter 7, Reminiscing: How a Senator was Born." According to this document, James O. Eastland was appointed...
From the Map Collection. Map showing the counties of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Arkansas from 1860. "Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1860 by S. Augustus Mitchell Jr. in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the Eastern...
From the Map Collection. Map showing the counties of Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana from 1870. Also shows cities, towns, and railroads. "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1870 by S. Augustus Mitchell, Jr. in the Clerk's Office...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Campaign brochure for Paul B. Johnson's 1963 Mississippi gubernatorial campaign; argues that support for the Mississippi Republican party would have disastrous effects on the lives of voters.
Photograph from the Johnston (Erle E., Jr.) Papers; Black-and-white photograph of African-American civil rights activist Dr. Gilbert Mason, taken in 1960. Mason was a physician in Biloxi, Mississippi.
From the Adams (Victoria Gray) Papers. Article reprinted from Soul Force, the journal of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), dated March 31, 1968. Discusses the foundation of SCLC, led by Martin Luther King, Jr. The article...
Photograph from the Johnston (Erle E., Jr.) Papers; Black-and-white photograph of Erle Johnston (left) accepting a framed certificate from Webb Burke (right), taken in 1968. Burke served as the director of the Mississippi State Sovereignty...
Photograph from the Johnston (Erle E., Jr.) Papers; Black-and-white photograph of Erle Johnston, Jr., age 33, upon his election as president of the Mississippi Press Association.
Photograph of the first members of the University of Southern Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame, installed February 20, 1965, at a banquet held in their honor at the University Commons. First row: Bracie Smith, George Westerfield, Reed Green, Dr....
