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.
Document, dated 8 March 1864, reporting the convening of a Board of Survey at Columbus, Mississippi, to assess the value of the horses of the Brigadier General and his staff. The value of only one horse belonging to General Daniel Ruggles was...
Proceedings: A meeting of officers and men of the 154th Sr. Tenn. Regiment. By the Chair; Laid on the table and ordered to be printed by the Congress of the Confederate States of America on 26 January 1864.
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on November 12, 1981 and February 6, 1982 with Judge J. P. Coleman. Coleman was born on December 9, 1914 in Fentress, Mississippi. After attending the University of Mississippi, he was invited to work in...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on February 26, 1974 with Mr. Brodie Crump at his home in Greenville, Mississippi. Crump was born in 1898 in Greenville, Mississippi. After attending Mississippi A&M College, now Mississippi State University,...
Oral history.; Discusses her father, Erle Johnston. Describes his relations with Ross Barnett and his work with the State Sovereignty Commission, which she denies was ever a spy organization.
Oral history.; Interview conducted on August 15, 1978 with Mr. Thomas Y. Minniece. Minniece was born in Meridian, Mississippi on October 9, 1912. He received a BA degree from the University of Texas in 1933 and a law degree from the University of...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on June 8, 1976, with Will D. Campbell. Mr. Campbell, born in Amite County, Mississippi, was ordained as a pastor at the age of 17. He first became aware of race relations during time spent in the military, when...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on July 24, 1999 with Joseph Schwartz (born 1938). Schwartz was active in Friends of SNCC at Berkeley and went South in the autumn of 1964. He worked in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, from September 1964 to March 1965.
Oral history.; Judge John H. Whitfield was born in Gulfport, Mississippi, on July 4, 1962. Prior to integration of the schools, Judge Whitfield attended Nichols Perkins Elementary School in Biloxi until 1973. When Mississippi public schools in...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on October 13, 1993 with Mr. Kenneth O. Williams at the new state capitol building in Jackson, Mississippi. Williams was born on January 18, 1924 in Clarksdale, Mississippi. He received a BA in political science...
Oral history.; The Honorable Frank D. Barber was born on April 2, 1929, in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Barber attended the University of Mississippi for a year before volunteering for the U.S. Army which involved National Guard work in the U.S. and...
Oral history.; Three interviews conducted on April 28, 30 and May 7, 1981 with Mr. Claude Ramsay at his office in Jackson, Mississippi. Ramsay was born in 1916 in Ocean Springs, Mississippi. He served briefly in the Civilian Conservation Corps...
From the Adams (Victoria Gray) Papers. Constitution and by-laws of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). Printed in Atlanta, Georgia, the pamphlet consists of a preamble and seven articles that govern the proceedings of the SCLC....
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; This issue of the Congressional Report records the reports of both the majority and minority opinion of the Committee for Elections of the United States House of Representatives regarding the...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; The Clay County, Mississippi, project report notes the progress and proceedings of Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee's (SNCC) ongoing political and economic programs and mentions ideas...
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...
"Political Correspondences" (Lowndes Cty., Miss.) Broadside. An anti-secession broadside printed in Lowndes County, Mississippi. The document records the names of individuals who were asked to consider representing Lowndes County at the State...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Record of the proceedings and debates of the 89th Congress, the major topic of which is the Congressional Challenge brought by the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) in response...
Transcribed copy of a booklet describing the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO). Includes the structure and history of the organization as well as a list of COFO programs.
