Oral history.; An interview conducted on August 30, 1978 with Thomas Jefferson Tubb (born 1899). Mr. Tubb served as chairman of the Clay County Executive Committee for 47 years from 1928 to 1975 and during the Dixiecrat movement from 1950 to 1956....
Oral history.; Mr. Ray William (Buck) Wells was born August 21, 1916, on a dairy farm three-fourths of a mile southwest of Mississippi Normal College (now The University of Southern Mississippi). Sometime around 1920 or 1921 he moved into...
Oral history.; Judge John H. Whitfield was born in Gulfport, Mississippi, on July 4, 1962. Prior to integration of the schools, Judge Whitfield attended Nichols Perkins Elementary School in Biloxi until 1973. When Mississippi public schools in...
Oral history.; Mrs. Geraldine (Gerry) Blessey was born in Biloxi, Mississippi, on April 16, 1922. Mrs. Blessey is a member of the Biloxi Council of Garden Clubs, the Biloxi Bay Chamber of Commerce, the Gulf Coast Symphony Guild, and the Maritime...
Oral history.; Ms. Sarah Bernice Arnold was born January 25, 1913, in Saltillo, Mississippi. She lived through the Depression and the closing of the banks in the 1930s, at which time she went to work sewing in a factory in Tupelo. Her husband,...
Oral history.;Mr. F.W. Bishop was born on December 11, 1897, near Shaw, Mississippi. His family farmed in the Skene community before moving to Cleveland, Mississippi, in 1911. Mr. Bishop began his education in a one-room schoolhouse in Skene and...
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 Hardy (William H. and Sallie J.) Papers. Letter from William Hardy to Sallie Hardy; written from Doctor Jones's, three miles from Gordonsville, Virginia.
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...
A Bill: Continuing in pay all discharged soldiers by reason of wounds and injuries received in the service. By Mr. Read; Read first and second times, and referred to the Committee on Military Affairs,and ordered to be printed by the Congress of the...
A Bill: To be entitled, "An Act to provide for the payment of officers acting under temporary appointment from the commander of any department, corps, division or brigade." By Mr. Vest, from Committee on Military Affairs; Read first and second...
A Bill: Regulating the granting furloughs and discharges in Hospitals. By Mr. Clark, of Ga; Read first and second times and referred to Committee on Medical Department.. Reported back, committee discharged, laid on table and ordered to be printed...
A Bill: Continuing in pay all discharged soldiers by reason of wounds and injuries received in the service. By Mr. Read, in the nature of a substitute for the bill to "provide for disabled officers and soldiers"; Postponed and ordered to be printed...
A Bill: To be entitled, "An Act excluding the privilege of purchasing clothing at Government cost, to all persons in its employment, who have been discharged for the army on account of wounds received or disease contracted whilst in the service."...
