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...
Memoir written by Jack E. Pitts, a private soldier in Company K, First Virginia Cavalry, Confederate Army, of his experiences in General J.E.B. Stuart's raid around the Army of the Potomac outside of Richmond, Virginia, in the summer of 1862. Pitts...
Fifteen-page typescript of a journal kept by Sandra Adickes during her stay in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, as a volunteer in the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project of 1964. The journal is dated July 10 - August 20, 1964. Adickes discusses her work as...
Transcribed copy of affidavits describing incidents of harassment and violence in Mississippi during the summer of 1964, not including statements about events considered widely publicized.
Transcribed copy of an essay on African-American history from 1900-1964, written by Otis Pease for Mississippi Freedom Project workers. Includes brief biographies of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois, and mentions the Myrdal study.
From the Earle E. Johnston Papers. Transcribed copy of a typewritten document entitled "Attitudes in Mississippi," written by Erle Johnston in December 1967. Johnston describes what he considers to be the prevailing attitudes in Mississippi in the...
Transcribed copy of a paper about racism in Mississippi during the 1960s. Follows the tribulations of college students who volunteered to register African Americans to vote during Freedom Summer. With regard to racism and white supremacy,...
Zoya Zeman's senior thesis was written after her participation in the Mississippi Freedom Project in the summer of 1964. Putting her work into context, she begins with a description of the background history of Mississippi. Zeman then recounts her...
Running summary of various incidents that occurred during the Mississippi Freedom Project, Summer 1964. Organized chronologically, each entry gives the city and the incident. Includes instances of harassment, hostility, and violence against civil...
From the Zoya Zeman Freedom Summer Collection. Transcribed copy of the diary of Dean Hay, a Presbyterian minister from Nebraska, in which he details his trip to Hattiesburg, Mississippi, in February of 1964. The goal of this trip was to aid in the...
From the Kate Greenaway Papers. The People's Magazine. London: The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. Pencil drawing for "Bebel and the Dwarf." Appeared in February 1, 1873, p. 97. "No, No, said he, Over there, but Lillie kept on" written...
From the Kate Greenaway Papers. Illustrated London News. London: Illustrated London News and Sketch, Ltd. vol. 74. Supplement. Greeting card of illustration "St. Valentine's Day" that appeared in Illustrated London News on February 15, 1879; 6 x 7
From the Kate Greenaway Papers. Illustrated London News. London: Illustrated London News and Sketch, Ltd. vol. 74. Supplement. Pencil sketch of illustration "St. Valentine's Day" that appeared in Illustrated London News on February 15, 1879; 3.5 x...
From the Kate Greenaway Papers. Little Folks London: Cassell, Petter and Galpin. Pencil sketch for an illustration that appeared in "Hide and Seek in a Manor House" January 1879, p. 20; 3.5 x 5.5
From the Kate Greenaway Papers. Autograph letter signed. 2 pp. on 1 folded leaf. (15.5 x 10 cm.) To Mr. [Edward] Bok from Kate Greenaway at Hampstead dated 21 December 1894. On mourning stationery. [This letter was written to Edward Bok, publisher...
From the Margret and Hans Augusto Rey Papers.; Color pencil illustration of "Zozo" with a record player from H.A. Rey's "Zozo," which appeared in Good Housekeeping Magazine (1951). 8.5" x 12"
Copy of a typewritten newsletter from Rabbi Charles and Anna Mantinband to friends dated December 1962, in which the Mantinbands provide an update on events in their life and family for the past year. They mention the birth of twin grandchildren, a...
Copy of a typewritten newsletter, the Mantinband Megillah, from Rabbi Charles and Anna Mantinband to friends dated 1963, in which the Mantinbands discuss events in their life during the past year. Included in the letter is information about their...
From the John Schoenherr Papers.; An illustration of a possum signed by artist John Schoenherr. The illustration appeared in Mississippi Possum by Miska Miles; 10 x 13
From the Ben-Ami (Rabbi David Z.) Papers. The letter from Robert Beech to Drew Pearson offers corrections and criticism concerning a column written by Pearson that appeared on Christmas Day 1964.
