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...
Oral history.; Viola Brown Sanders was born in Sidon, Mississippi, on February 21, 1921. After Miss Sanders finished her education, she taught school for two years in Glen Allan, Mississippi. In 1943, Miss Sanders joined the United States Navy...
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...
From the Columbus Riflemen, Company "C", First Regiment [Papers]. Letter from members of the Columbus Riflemen to Anna Banks; April 21, 1900. The members of the Columbus Rifleman report that the United Daughters of the Confederacy have set aside...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on June 26, 1979 with Mr. William J. Simmons at his office in Jackson, Mississippi. Simmons was born in 1916 in Utica, Mississippi. He attended Millsaps College and Mississippi College, graduating from the...
From the Spight (Thomas) Letters. Letter from Thomas Spight to Virginia Barnett, dated 11 March 1863, written from camp near the 34th MS Regiment. Spight, a member of the 34th Mississippi Infantry during the Civil War, writes to his cousin and...
From the Spight (Thomas) Letters. Letter from Thomas Spight to Virginia Barnett, dated 7 January 1861, written from Bowling Green, Kentucky. Spight, a member of the 34th Mississippi Infantry during the Civil War, writes to his cousin and future...
From the Adams (John Q.) Letters. Letter from John Quince Adams to his wife, Sarah Adams, dated 11 May 1862, written from Shiloh, Tennessee. Adams, who served in Co. E., 60th Regiment of the Illinois Volunteers during the Civil War, writes about...
From the Adams (John Q.) Letters. Letter from John Quince Adams to his wife, Sarah Adams, dated 25 May 1862, written from a camp near Farmington in Tishomingo County, Mississippi. Adams, who served in Co. E., 60th Regiment of the Illinois...
From the Adams (John Q.) Letters. Letter from John Quince Adams to his wife, Sarah Adams, dated 1 July 1862, written from Camp Big Springs, Mississippi. Adams, who served in Co. E., 60th Regiment of the Illinois Volunteers during the Civil War,...
From the Adams (John Q.) Letters. Letter from John Quince Adams to his wife, Sarah Adams, dated 27 May 1862, written from a camp near Farmington in Tishomingo County, Mississippi. Adams, who served in Co. E., 60th Regiment of the Illinois...
From the Adams (John Q.) Letters. Letter from John Quince Adams to his wife, Sarah Adams, dated 20 July 1862, written from Camp Big Springs near Corinth, Mississippi. Adams, who served in Co. E., 60th Regiment of the Illinois Volunteers during the...
From the Adams (John Q.) Letters. Letter from John Quince Adams to his wife, Sarah Adams, dated 21 June 1862, written from a camp near Corinth, Mississippi. Adams, who served in Co. E., 60th Regiment of the Illinois Volunteers during the Civil War,...
