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
From the Adams (Victoria Gray) Papers. Brochure designed by the Southern Conference Educational Fund (SCEF) to inform people of the economic problems in the South and to encourage poor whites to join forces with Blacks to work for economic and...
From the Adams (Victoria Gray) Papers. Memo from the Southern Conference Educational Fund (SCEF). Notifies interested parties of the May 13 trial of H. Rap Brown, chair of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, in New Orleans on a weapons...
Transcribed copy of a booklet describing the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO). Includes the structure and history of the organization as well as a list of COFO programs.
Photograph of the cover of the Mississippi Educational Advance, Vol. 14 No. 2 cover. The Mississippi Educational Advance was the monthly publication of the Mississippi Teachers Association. The title was changed to Mississippi Educator in 1976....
Oral history.; Interview conducted on November 3, 1993 with Horace H. Harned Jr. (born 1920). He was a former Mississippi State legislator, a member of the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission, and an active segregationist during the years of...
Oral history.; Born on January 19, 1958, in Greenwood, Mississippi, Jon Levingston grew up in a Jewish family in Cleveland, Mississippi. Mr. Levingston attended a boarding school in Rome, Georgia and then the University of Georgia and the Virginia...
Oral history; Mrs. Ruth Evans Story was born on October 20, 1943, in Gulfport, Mississippi. She graduated from high school and attended Dillard University in New Orleans. On October 18, 1962, Ms. Ruth Evans married Almer L. Story in Gulfport....
Oral history.; Interview conducted on February 13, 1974 with Mayor Bennie G. Thompson at his office in Bolton, Mississippi. Thompson was born on January 28, 1948 in Bolton, Mississippi. He received a BA in political science from Tougaloo College...
From the Adams (Victoria Gray) Papers. Report by the Southern Conference Educational Fund (SCEF) staff that highlights the efforts of the SCEF. Provides information about the causes for which the organization works, including the work in the...
From the Adams (Victoria Gray) Papers. Newsletter for Southern Conference Educational Fund (SCEF) staff, dated May 24, 1968. Includes activity updates by SCEF staff members and discusses the Deep South Project, Southern Mountain Project, and...
Transcribed copy of a document detailing the curriculum of Freedom Schools. Begins with a Table of Contents showing the major curriculum divisions: academic, citizenship, and recreational and artistic. Also gives details of activities and materials...
Cover of the Mississippi Educational Advance, the monthly publication of the Mississippi Teachers Association. The title changed to Mississippi Educator in 1976; 5 x 7
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A teacher is sitting at her desk in a classroom and appears dazed. Around her head are circular marks labeled "Test scores...Facility decay...Discipline." On the desk is a...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on February 27, 1991 in the city hall of Corinth, Mississippi with Mayor Edward S. Bishop, Sr. Bishop was born in Starkville, Mississippi on December 11, 1907. In 1926, he completed high school at Jackson...
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.; An interview conducted on May 14, 2008 with Robert E. Bass, Jr. (born 1955). Mr. Bass earned degrees from Mississippi State University and the University of Mississippi Law School. He has served in many civic capacities, including...
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.; Three interviews conducted on December 12, 1975, January 19, 1976, and January 23, 1991 with Mr. C.J. Duckworth in his office in Jackson, Mississippi. Duckworth was born in Summerland, Mississippi, Smith County, on February 25,...
