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...
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...
President Aubrey Lucas presents a game ball to Kay James to commemorate the winning of her 300th game earlier in the season. Featured in the USM Alumni News, vol. 46, no. 4 (Spring 1994) on page 19.
Photograph of the Southern Arena Theatre (earlier called Southern Arena Playhouse) being moved to a location near the Education and Psychology Building. Theatre professor Gilbert Hartwig listens as another man talks about details of the move....
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...
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 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...
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...
From the Quantrill (William Clarke) Research Collection; Letter from Captain William H. Gregg to William E. Connelley, regarding earlier settlers of Kansas and the activities of Jim Lane's Marauders.
From the Hamlett (Ed) White Folks Project Collection. Anne Braden's letter to Ed [Hamlett] is typed on Southern Conference Educational Fund (SCEF) letterhead and is a response to Hamlett's earlier letter. She explains her delay in writing and...
From the Campbell (Will D.) Papers; Copy of a typewritten letter from Will D. Campbell to Sally Smith, dated January 11, 1957, written in response to earlier correspondence. Campbell advises Smith to approach her parents calmly with regard to the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Arthur Henrikson. A woman wearing an apron stands in an open doorway pointing her finger and shouting at Lyndon Johnson, who is behind a desk. The woman holds a newspaper with headlines of...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. A man in a darkened movie theater rises from his seat and steps into the aisle to leave, hat in hand. On the screen is a film or newsreel titled, "Thailand involvement" showing a...
Transcribed copy of a memo describing three bombings that took place on June 22, 1964, in McComb, Mississippi. The homes of Fred Bates, C. C. Bryant, and Corline Andrews were bombed.
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...
