From the Mack (Will) Hanging Photographs. Photograph of the gallows and crowd following the hanging of Will Mack, which took place on 23 July 1909 in Brandon, Mississippi. Will Mack can be seen hanging underneath the gallows covered in a black hood.
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...
From the Hardy (William H. and Sallie J.) Papers. Letter from Thomas H. Johnson, Sallie Hardy's father, to William Hardy. There is no transcript for this letter.
From the Hardy (William H. and Sallie J.) Papers. Letter to Sallie Hardy, possibly from her father, Thomas H. Johnson; written from Brandon, Mississippi. There is no transcript for this letter, and pages are missing.
From the L.E. Faulkner Papers. Letter, from Representative John E. Rankin to L.E. Faulkner, President of the Mississippi Central Railroad Company, dated 30 August 1950. Rankin, who was a former member of the Committee on Un-American Activities,...
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...
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
From the Political Campaign Collection. Postcard for Hiram J. Patterson in his bid for reelection to the position of Highway Commissioner. The front of the postcard contains a note from Jasie (?) C. Rankin in support of Patterson. The postcard is...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on October 7, 1976 with Dr. W. B. Thompson at his office at Mississippi College in Clinton, Mississippi. Thompson was born on November 5, 1920 in Columbus, Mississippi. After returning from service in World War...
Oral history.; Father Peter Oliver Quinn was born on April 11, 1937, in Ireland. He was ordained when he was twenty-five years old in Ireland, and he came to Mississippi in September, 1962. Father Quinn's first assignment was at Sacred Heart...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on October 24, 1975 with the Honorable O.H. Barnett (born 1902). Mr. Barnett was elected Circuit Court Judge in 1958 and served until 1975. He presided during the civil rights movement in the 1960s, during the...
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...
