Oral history.; Interview conducted on July 12, 1973 with Mr. Jerry Clower at his office in Yazoo City, Mississippi. Clower was born in 1926 at Route Four, Liberty, Mississippi. After graduating from high school, he joined the U.S. Navy. On...
From the Hamlett (Ed) White Folks Project Collection. Marjorie Ann Henderson, a student at Maryville College in Maryville, Tennessee, writes to Ed [Hamlett], state director of the White Folks Project (WFP), to tell him school will be out in two...
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. A newsletter from the Holly Springs Freedom House, signed as the Needy Group of Mississippi. This newsletter describes or mentions numerous events, including: Howard Jeffries in jail; expired...
From Mrs. W's 1901 Diary. Mrs. W.'s diary paints a vivid portrait of the daily life of a middle class homemaker in 1901, and constitutes a daily account of the author's activities from April 1 - August 7, 1901.Very little biographical or historical...
From the Campbell (Will D.) Papers; Copy of a typewritten letter on letterhead of the Committee of Southern Churchmen from Will D. Campbell to David Mathis, editor of Sidelines, dated October 28, 1968. Campbell discusses an article printed in a...
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. Brief report of news and developments in Holly Springs and surrounding areas. Topics include problems with distribution of relief supplies, a rape trial in Memphis, Tennessee, and a $1.5 million...
Pamphlet from the Adams (Victoria Gray) Papers. Pamphlet designed by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) to inform civil rights workers of their legal rights if arrested and questioned by the police. Prepared in reaction to a...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; The 120 African-American members of the Panola County Okra Cooperative initially produced and sold okra mainly in Memphis, Tennessee, markets, but future plans are to produce and sell other cash...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Three young female Freedom Summer volunteers arrive a few doors down from the COFO Headquarters at 507 Mobile Street in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, at the end of June, 1964. One of the three may...
From the Lovell (Mansfield) Letters. Letter from Mansfield Lovell to his wife Emily, dated 22 September 1861, was written from Bowling Green, Kentucky, where Lovell was awaiting orders following his attachment to the Confederate Army. Lovell...
From the Spight (Thomas) Letters. Letter from Virginia Barnett to Thomas Spight, dated 9 August 1865; written from near Cotton Grove, Tennessee. Virginia Barnett is the cousin and future wife of Spight, a member of the 34th Mississippi Infantry...
