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...
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...
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...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on May 18, 1972 with Ms. Ruby Magee at College Hall at the University of Southern Mississippi. Magee was born in 1940 in Tylertown, Mississippi. In 1962, she received a BA in history and political science from...
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 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...
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...
Finding aid for manuscript collection. ; The James Earl Price Mississippi history collection is organized into six series: Alleged Slaughter at Camp Van Dorn; History and Struggles of the United Methodist Church in Mississippi; President Theodore...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Form letter from Robert Moses on behalf of the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) to notify applicants for 1964 Freedom Summer projects that they have been accepted.
Copy of a typewritten newsletter, the Mantinband Megillah, written in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, from Rabbi Charles and Anna Mantinband to friends, dated New Year 1962. The Mantinbands discuss their health problems, travels for the year, and the...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Form letters and a memo that would have been sent to applicants who were accepted as freedom school teachers for 1964, including some orientation and curriculum information. Also, a memo from...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; Memo to accepted applicants for Mississippi Freedom Project giving current information on the growing expectation of hostility in Mississippi when hundreds of young people from other parts of...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Memo from the Council of Federated Organizations (U.S.) with information on money the accepted workers need to bring with them for everyday expenses and bail. Also addresses Mississippi legal...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; Memo from Bob Moses tells Freedom Summer Project volunteers where to attend orientation meetings and what to bring.
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; The letter from the Council of Federated Organizations (U.S.) gives a list of what its volunteers will need to bring with them for the Mississippi Freedom Project.
Transcribed copy of a typewritten document entitled "Message from Mississippi," produced by the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission. This address was prepared for individuals who volunteered to speak publicly on behalf of the Mississippi State...
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 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 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...
