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...
An Act: To reduce the currency and to authorize a new issue of notes and bonds. Enacted by the Congress of the Confederate States of America on 17 February 1864.
Regulations in relation to the issue of Certificate for Bonds and Registered Stock; Includes and Act to authorize the issue of Bonds for funding Treasury Notes, and An Act to reduce the rate of Interest on the Funded Debt of the Confederate States.
Amendment: To Section 3rd of the Bill: To be entitled, "An Act to authorize the consolidation of companies, battalions and regiments." By Mr. Norton; Ordered to be printed by the Congress of the Confederate States of America on 02 January 1865.
Amendment: To Bill to authorize the consolidation of companies, battalions and regiment. By Mr Hanly; Ordered to by printed by the Congress of the Confederate States of America on 19 December 1864.
Amendment: To the Bill: To be entitled, "An Act to authorize the consolidation of companies, battalions and regiments." By Mr. Villere; Ordered to be printed by the Congress of the Confederate States of America on 19 December 1864.
Amendments: To the Bill: To be entitled, "An Act to authorize the Consolidation of Companies, Battalions and Regiments." By Mr. Snead; To be printed by the Congress of the Confederate States of America on 30 December 1864.
A Bill: To be entitled, "An Act to authorize the impressment of meat fro the use of the army, under certain circumstances." By Mr. Goode; Read first and second times, placed on the Calendar, and ordered to be printed by the Congress of the...
A Bill: To be entitled, "An Act to authorize the consolidation of companies, battalions and regiments." By Mr. Miles; Read first and second times, and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs by the Congress of the Confederate States of...
A Bill: To authorize the employment of Instructors for the Acting Midshipmen of the Navy, and to regulate their rank and pay. By Mr. Boyce, from Naval Committee; Read first and second times, ordered to be printed, and placed on the Calendar by the...
A Bill: To be entitled, "An Act to authorize the 2d Auditor of the Treasury, or a Commissioner, to be appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury with the consent of the President, to take proof as to the expenditures of the State of Tennessee, in...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; This memorandum on the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) letterhead from John Morsell to the presidents of branches, youth councils, college chapters and 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...
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 September 10, 1993 with Herman Cowan Glazier Jr. (born 1918). Glazier's service record in Mississippi government spans forty-five years from 1946 to 1987. This includes his serving as exectutive assistant to...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on November 4, 1993 with Joseph E. Wroten (born 1925). Mr. Wroten became famous as one of only two Mississippi House Representatives who voted in favor of allowing blacks to enroll at the University of Mississippi.
Oral history.; Interview conducted on July 25, 1991 with Mr. Maurice Black at his home near North Carrollton, Mississippi. Black was born on October 18, 1915, near Flora, Mississippi, in Madison County. After graduating from Hinds Junior College...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on February 7 and 21, 1992 with Mr. Thomas Knight Sr. at the University of Southern Mississippi. Knight was born on July 9, 1920 near Hattiesburg, Mississippi. In 1941, he began working at the Reliance...
Oral history.; Mrs. Sarah Harris Ruffin was born on April 15, 1914. Her parents came to Hattiesburg in the early 1900s. When young, Mrs. Ruffin did domestic and warehouse work. In 1949, she began working at the Brooklyn Jewish Hospital as a nurse's...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on November 12, 1981 and February 6, 1982 with Judge J. P. Coleman. Coleman was born on December 9, 1914 in Fentress, Mississippi. After attending the University of Mississippi, he was invited to work in...
