Oral history.; Ms. Phyllis Hawkins Harper was born October 6, 1933, in Mooreville, Mississippi. She graduated from Mooreville High School and went on to Itawamba Junior College and the University of Mississippi. During the Depression, Ms. Harper...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on June 18, 2007 with Margaret Alfonso, the Senior Chancery Court Judge for Hancock, Harrison, and Stone counties. She discusses her experience with Hurricane Katrina on the Gulf Coast.
Oral history.; Interview conducted on October 28, 1993 with Judge Michael L. Carr (born 1920). He moved to Mississippi when he received an appointment to serve as law clerk to Edwin R. Holmes, U.S. circuit judge for the Fifth Circuit Court of...
Oral history.; Mr. William F. Stallworth was born August 12, 1954, in Monroeville, Alabama. He grew up in Pensacola, Florida, Jackson, Mississippi, and Hattiesburg, Mississippi. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in education at Jackson State...
Oral history.; Mr. Alton G. Bankston was born outside of Laurel, Mississippi on June 5, 1941. Mr. Bankston majored in political science and history at Jones County Junior College and attended the University of Southern Mississippi. In 1963 he...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; This is an early draft of one of Michael Miller's letters to the editor of the San Francisco Chronicle, which explains the national press's misinterpretation of the phrase "Black power" and...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Letter to Julie Prettyman of SNCC's New York office. Miller expresses disappointment at failure of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, and he asks for fund raising ideas.
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. A letter inviting attendance at a memorial service for James Cheney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner on August 9, 1964, in Washington, D.C.
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Federal grand jury records of one count of conspiracy and three counts of murder against Cecil Ray Price, Edgar Ray Killen, and 16 other men in the deaths of James Earl Chaney, Andrew Goodman,...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Chronology of communications among FBI agents, the Mississippi Highway Patrol, the U.S. Justice Department, and others during the first days of the disappearance of Andrew Goodman, James Chaney,...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; Michael Miller's letter to the editor of the San Francisco Chronicle explains the national press's misinterpretation of the phrase "Black power" and clarifies the phrase's meaning and usage...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; Mike Miller, of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.); expresses his vision of the role the Medical Committee for Human Rights (MCHR) should play in Mississippi and in California.
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Document which addresses legal aspects of the case against the Neshoba County men accused of murdering civil rights workers Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner, and James Cheney. It describes...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; Jan Hillegas, the treasurer of the Freedom Information Center (FIS), sends Michael J. Miller his requested materials, and asks him to contribute a "dollar or two toward postage" to help the...
Finding aid for manuscript collection. ; The collection contains correspondence and other records documenting Miller's work with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in Mississippi, primarily between 1964 and 1966. For the full finding...
Oral history.; Interview conducted with Dr. Michael Smith, a professor of criminal justice at the University of Southern Mississippi and a journalist during the 1960s. Smith was born in 1942 in Waterloo, Iowa. After his family's move to Jackson,...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Brief letter from Miller to Margaret [last name unknown], which includes an account of a labor dispute (presumably in California).
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. An order from the Department of Public Safety suspending Miller's Mississippi driving privileges and the use of any vehicle owned by him. This order resulted from an October 1963 Holmes County...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Proposal for SNCC volunteer program for community development in the Bay Area of California. The program represented an attempt to transfer the ideals and experience of Freedom Summer volunteers...
