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...
Photograph of Hawkins Junior High student, Scott Wheeler, speaking with American Indian activist, Russell Means, at the reception following an Honors College forum lecture. Also found in the 1996 Southerner yearbook on page 53.
A Bill: To be entitled, "An Act to consolidate the public debt." By Mr. Russell; November 9th, 1864 - Read first and second times and referred to Committee of Ways and Means. Ordered to be printed by the Congress of the Confederate States of...
A Bill: To be entitled, "An Act to provide means to carry on the war." By Mr. Russell; November 9th, 1864 - Read first and second times and referred to Committee of Ways and Means. Ordered to be printed by the Congress of the Confederate States of...
A Bill: To be entitled, "An Act to permit the funding of certain Treasury notes not now fundable." By Mr. Russell; Read first and second times, referred to Special Committee on Currency, and ordered to be printed by the Congress of the Confederate...
A Bill: To be entitled, "An Act to provide means to carry on the war." By Mr. Russell; Ordered to be printed by the Congress of the Confederate States of America on 30 January 1865.
Finance Proposition: In lieu of first six sections of committee bill insert. By Mr. Russell; Ordered to be printed by the Congress of the Confederate States of America on 09 January 1864.
Oral history.; Interview conducted on January 23, 1973 with Mr. William Dukes in his office in Gulfport, Mississippi. Dukes was born in the Sullivans' Hollow area near Raleigh, in Smith County, Mississippi on January 15, 1927. After his discharge...
Oral history. Interview conducted on March 4, 1972 with Associate Justice Thomas Pickens Brady, of the Supreme Court of Mississippi in his chambers in Jackson, Mississippi. Brady was born on August 6, 1903, in New Orleans, Louisiana. He...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Jimmy Carter is dressed in armor as Don Quixote with a shield labeled "J" and a lance. He is sitting on a horse in front of a windmill. The windmill blades are in motion, and...
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...
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 ten 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
Oral history.; Interview conducted on November 6, 1979 with Dr. Arthur Lewis, emeritus professor of mathematics, emeritus professor of physics and astronomy, and emeritus Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Mississippi. Lewis...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on November 16, 1977 with George Rogers (born 1927). Mr. Rogers, a Rhodes Scholar, was elected to the Mississippi House of Representatives, where he served for more than twenty years. He became well known for his...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on February 21, 1980 with the Honorable George M. Yarbrough at his home. Yarbrough was born on August 15, 1916 at Red Banks, Mississippi. Yarbrough served in the U.S. Army during World War II, achieving the rank...
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...
