One-page document dated December 4, 1871 and drafted by the Mississippi State Legislature requesting return of Federal lands first granted in 1856 for the purpose of building the Gulf and Ship Island Railroad. The Gulf and Ship Island Railroad was...
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...
Printed committee report, dated 1 December 1818, on the question of prohibiting Choctaw Indian settlement on the west bank of the Mississippi River until the tribe ceded to the United States the lands lying east of the Mississippi.
Printed committee report dated 12 February 1816, relating to claims in the Mississippi Territory. This report concerns the validity of British and Spanish grants, some held by non-residents.
A printed copy of a report from the Committee on the Public Lands, dated 29 May 1812, issuing from their inquiry into the expediency of confirming claims to land in the Mississippi Territory founded on Spanish Warrants of Survey.
Printed committee report dated 3 February 1816, relating to claims in the Mississippi Territory. It recommends that the petitions by Mississippi territory residents for compensation due to Creek Indian depredations (and the depredations of American...
From the Map Collection. Map of Mississippi showing counties and Indian territories. To the left, right and bottom of the map are columns of text discussing different aspects of the state. Topic headings are "Situation, Boundaries, and Extent",...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Ed Valtman. Richard Nixon holds his hat in his right hand, and he stands near a large circle on the ground in front of him. There are a number of hats already in the circle, and Nixon appears...
Letter from M. Blake to William Pinckney Montgomery regarding the sale of Blake's extensive land holdings near the present town of Greenville, Mississippi. John T. McMasson of Natchez is authorized as Blake's attorney; an enclosed letter to...
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...
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
Oral history.; Mr. George A. Stevens was born in 1910 in Forrest County, Mississippi. He attended Hattiesburg public schools but graduated from high school in Anthony, New Mexico. Mr. Stevens returned to attend The University of Southern...
Oral history.; Dorothea Allsup was born on February 4, 1916. Her family resided in Nebraska, but they moved to Epes, Alabama and then Macon, Mississippi, when she was seventeen. While Mrs. Allsup attended high school in Macon she met her future...
Oral history.; Norman discusses the creation and work of the Mississippi Humanities Council, the people responsible for its early development, and its programs concerning race relations and public education.
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 November 16, 1977 with George Rogers (born 1927). Mr. Rogers, a Rhodes Scholar, was elected to the Mississippi House of Representatives, where he served for more than twenty years. He became well known for his...
Oral history.; Gwin E. Douglas was born on November 9, 1923, in State Line, Mississippi. Douglas graduated from Leakesville High School in 1942 and worked briefly with his father in the naval store and the timber businesses until he was drafted...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on February 21, 1980 with the Honorable George M. Yarbrough at his home. Yarbrough was born on August 15, 1916 at Red Banks, Mississippi. Yarbrough served in the U.S. Army during World War II, achieving the rank...
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...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 26, 1974 with Rabbi Julian B. Feibelman in his office at the Temple Sinai in New Orleans, Louisiana. Feibelman was born on March 23, 1897 in Jackson, Mississippi. He remained in Jackson for the first...
