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...
From the Map Collection. A map of the coastline surrounding Cumberland Bay. Also marked are The East Bay, The Spout, The West Bay, and Sugar-loaf Bay. An area of fine sand is indicated. Scale of 2 miles.
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...
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...
From the Map Collection. A map of Central America. Scale of British miles and geographical miles. Ruined cities are indicated by a rectangle drawn around the name. If the name of a ruined city is not know, it is listed as Ruins. A long note in the...
Certificate of survey for a 130 acre tract of land in the Natchez District owned by John Burnet. The survey was conducted by William Vousdan on land 45 miles north of the Fort of Natchez lying along Bayou Pierre in what is now Claiborne County,...
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...
A Bill: To be entitled, "An Act repealing existing, and regulating future, exemptions from military service." By Mr. Miles; Postponed, placed on the Calendar, and ordered to be printed by the Congress of the Confederate States of America on 04...
A Bill: To be entitled, "An Act to increase the efficiency of the army by the employment of free Negroes and slaves in certain capacities." By Mr. Miles, from the Military Committee; Read first and second times, placed upon the calendar, and...
A Bill: To be entitled, "An Act to allow commissioned officers of the army rations and the privilege of purchasing clothing from the Quartermaster's Department." By Mr. Miles; December 11, 1863 - Read first and second times, and referred to...
A Bill: To be entitled, "An Act to authorize the consolidation of companies, battalions and regiments." By Mr. Miles; Read first and second times, and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs by the Congress of the Confederate States of...
A Bill: To be entitled, "An Act to consolidate and amend the laws relative to impressments." By Mr. Miles; Read first and second times, referred to a Special Committee of one from each State, and ordered to be printed by the Congress of the...
A Bill: To be entitled, "An Act to declare what persons shall be exempt from military service." By Mr. Miles, from the Committee on Military Affairs; Read first and second times, made special order for tomorrow, 21st January, and from day to day...
A Bill: To be entitled, "An Act for the further Organization of the Field Artillery of the Confederate States." By Mr. Miles; Read first and second times; postponed; special order (continuing) after existing special orders; to be printed by the...
A Bill: More effectually to prevent and punish Absenteeism and Desertion in the Army. By Mr. Miles, Military Committee; Read first and second times; continuing special order after last special orders; to be printed by the Congress of the...
A Bill: To change the mode of filling Vacancies among Commissioned Officers of Companies, Battalions and Regiments. By Mr. Miles, Military Committee; Read first and second times; special order after last special order, and from day to day; to be...
A Bill: To be entitled, "An Act for the organization of the Bureau of Conscriptions, and the appointment of officers in said Bureau." By Mr. Miles; Read first and second times and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs by the Congress of the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man in colonial costume is driving a car directly behind a large truck. The trailer has a map of the United States on the side along with the words, "Federal interstate...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 24, 1972 with Dr. William Penn Davis at his home in Jackson, Mississippi. Davis was born in Union County, Mississippi on August 5, 1903. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Mississippi College in...
