A Bill: To be entitled, "An Act to amend the existing Acts for the exemption of persons from military service." Mr Perkins moved the following as an amendment to the Exemption Bill, reported from the Committee on Military Affairs; enacted by the...
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: Declaring the mode of ascertaining the value of the tithe deliverable to the government under the true construction of existing laws. December 5, 1864, read first and second times,and referred to Committee of Ways and Means; December 29,...
A Bill: To be entitled, "An Act to provide payment for slaves impressed under State laws, and lost in the public service." By Mr. Baldwin; Read first and second times, and referred to Committee on the Judiciary. January 18 - Reported back, placed...
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: Regulating the granting furloughs and discharges in Hospitals. By Mr. Clark, of Ga; Read first and second times and referred to Committee on Medical Department.. Reported back, committee discharged, laid on table and ordered to be printed...
A Bill: To be entitled, "An Act supplemental to, and amendatory of, the several acts for the sequestration of the estates, property and effects of alien enemies, and for indemnity of citizens of the Confederate States, and persons aiding the same...
A Bill: To be entitled, "An Act to suppress abuses in the Quartermaster and Commissary Departments of the army." By Mr. Garland; Read first and second times and referred tot the Committee on the Quartermaster and Commissary Departments on December...
A Bill: To be offered as a Substitute for the Bill reported by the Committee on Military Affairs to consolidate companies, battalions, regiments and brigades. By Mr. Dupre.
A Bill: To be entitled, "An Act to provide for the payment of officers acting under temporary appointment from the commander of any department, corps, division or brigade." By Mr. Vest, from Committee on Military Affairs; Read first and second...
A Bill: Requiring suit to be brought against persons connected with the Cotton Bureau and Cotton Office in Texas. By Mr. Herbert; January 20, 1865 - Read first and second times and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. March 2, 1865 -...
Joint Resolution: For the relief of Major W.F. Haines. By Mr Clopton; Placed on the Calendar and ordered to be printed. Reported by Committee on Claims as a substitute for the original bill by the Congress of the Confederate States of America on 24...
Joint Resolutions: Requiring the settlement of the accounts of the Post-Office Department prior to the first day of July 1863. By Mr. Baldwin, moved as substitute for bill reported by Committee of Ways and Means; Ordered to be printed by the...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on May 17, 1972 with Associate Justice Thomas Pickens Brady, of the Supreme Court of Mississippi in his chambers in Jackson, Mississippi. This is the second part of an interview conducted on March 4, 1972 with...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Statement by four Harvard Law School students calling for effective federal intervention in southern civil rights conflicts, primarily through the executive branch.
Transcribed copy of a typewritten letter from P. D. East to Theron Lynd, dated November 26, 1962. East makes reference to an incident in which Lynd publicly accused him of being a communist and demands that Lynd either prove his accusation or go...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; This document consists of three previously published news stories about Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) field secretary and Mississippi native Samuel Block. The articles...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Memo from the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, dated January 17, 1965, that summarizes the second stage of the Congressional Challenge. States the reason for the challenge and...
Transcribed copy of a memo describing three bombings that took place on June 22, 1964, in McComb, Mississippi. The homes of Fred Bates, C. C. Bryant, and Corline Andrews were bombed.
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Memo from Betty Garman (Robinson), Atlanta SNCC office, to friends of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and campus contacts, dated October 28, 1964. Garman reports...
