Oral history.; An interview conducted on August 25, 1971 with Erskine Caldwell (1903-1987). Mr. Caldwell was a prominent American author whose works include Tobacco Road, (1932) and God's Little Acre (1933).
Oral history.; Interview conducted on December 11, 1974 with Mrs. Lillie Jones at her home in Philadelphia, Mississippi. Jones was born in 1892 in Lauderdale County, Mississippi and soon after her family moved to Neshoba County. She attended a...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on July 31, 1981 with Mr. Cecil Shelton at the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Shelton was born on September 1, 1945 in Gore Springs, Mississippi. After graduating high school in...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 15, 1994 with Troy Catchings, Jr. (born 1942). In 1966, he began working with Coahoma Opportunities, Inc. (COI), an antipoverty agency that serves the African-American and poor white communities of...
From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection. A Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) poster. Photo by Danny Lyon of John Lewis with two others demonstrating at the "all white" swimming pool in Cairo Illinois in the summer of 1962....
Poster from the Joseph and Nancy Ellin Freedom Summer Collection. Poster (approximately 18" x 14"). Photograph by Danny Lyon of three well-dressed, young African Americans. There are two young men and one young woman in the photograph, kneeling on...
Poster from the Joseph and Nancy Ellin Freedom Summer collection.Poster (approximately 14" x 22"). Photograph by Danny Lyon of a well-dressed group of young African Americans. There is an unobstructed view of two young men. Both of the young men...
Poster from the Joseph and Nancy Ellin Freedom Summer Collection. Poster (approximately 14" x 24"). Photograph by Danny Lyon of an older African American man in overalls and hat, seated with hands clasped. Directly behind him is the corner of a...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 15, 1994 with Bennie Gooden. As one of the founding members of the Southern Education Recreation Association (SERA), Mr. Gooden wrote the grant proposal to fund Coahoma County's first Head Start program...
A Bill: To be entitled, "An Act repealing certain abatements from the property tax and income tax, and amending the said tax laws.". By Mr. Lyon, from the Committee on Ways and Means; Read first and second times, made continuing special order after...
A Bill: Making appropriations to supply a deficiency in the appropriation for the Department of Justice for the half year ending 31 December 1864. By Mr. Lyon, of the Committee of Ways and Means; Read first and second times, laid on the table and...
A Bill: To be entitled, "An Act to exempt from taxation the capitol of bonds and certificates issued by the Confederate States." By Mr. Lyon, from Committee on Ways and Means; Read first and second times, made special order, and ordered to be...
A Bill: To be entitled, "An Act to exempt from taxation loans made on hypothecation of non-taxable bonds." By Mr. Lyon, from Committee on Ways and Means; Read first and second times, made special order, and ordered to be printed by the Congress of...
A Bill: To be entitled, "An Act to impose a duty on tobacco and an additional duty on cotton exported from the Confederate Sates." By Mr. Lyon, from Committee on Ways and Means; Read first and second times, and made special order after last special...
A Bill: To be entitled, "An Act making appropriations for the postal service of the Confederate States, for the year 1862 and 1863." By Mr. Lyon, from the Committee of Ways and Means; Read first and second times, made special order after...
A Bill: To be entitled, "An Act making appropriations for the support of the Government of the Confederate States of America from July 1 to December 31, 1864, and to supply a deficiency." By Mr. Lyon, from the Committee of Ways and Means; Read...
A Bill: To be entitled, "An Act to amend An Act to provide revenue from commodities imported from foreign countries, approved May 21st, 1864." By Mr. Lyon, from Committee on Ways and Means; Read first and second times, made special order after...
A Bill: To be entitled, "An Act to levy additional taxes for the year 1865, for the support of the Government." By Mr. Lyon, form Committee of Ways and Means; Read first and second times, made order of the day for Friday, 20th January, and ordered...
A Bill: Making further regulations for the taxation of banks and bank notes, and for the confiscation of such notes held by alien enemies. By Mr. Lyon, form Committee of Ways and Means; Read first and second times, made continuing special order...
