Oral history.; The Honorable Frank D. Barber was born on April 2, 1929, in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Barber attended the University of Mississippi for a year before volunteering for the U.S. Army which involved National Guard work in the U.S. and...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on July 5, 1995 with Mr. Rims Barber (born 1936). In 1964, he was a twenty-seven-year-old Presbyterian minister in Davenport, Iowa. He came to Mississippi in response to a request for volunteers to help with...
Oral history.; Four interviews conducted on October 1, 2, and 23 of 1975, and July 1, 1976 with Mr. Hugh Clegg at his home in Anguilla, Mississippi. Clegg was born on July 17, 1898 in Mathiston, Mississippi. Clegg graduated from Millsaps...
Oral history.; Three interviews conducted on April 28, 30 and May 7, 1981 with Mr. Claude Ramsay at his office in Jackson, Mississippi. Ramsay was born in 1916 in Ocean Springs, Mississippi. He served briefly in the Civilian Conservation Corps...
From the Emilie and Marie Stapp Collection. Proclamation issued by Governor Harding calling upon the boys and girls of Iowa to give their pennies to the Happy Tribe fund for French and Belgian war orphans. The goal is one million pennies.
From the Emilie and Marie Stapp Collection. The Governor of Alabama issued a proclamation calling upon the children of Alabama to help the Happy Tribe raise one million pennies fro the children in war devastated Europe. How well they responded to...
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. A new version, to which is added Little Jane and her mother. Published in Boston by Wm. J. Reynolds and Company, in 1848. Page numbering is inconsistent. Three parts issued in one, each with...
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Collected and revised by Benjamin Tabart. Published in London by Sir Richard Phillips and Co., Bride Court, Bridge Street, circa 1818. "Contains twenty-six choice pieces of fancy and fiction, by...
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Exemplified in a series of figures. Published in London by S. and J. Fuller, in 1810. This copy is the 6th edition. The illustrations are hand-colored cutouts with interchangeable parts. ...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Statement issued by candidates of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) Clifton Whitley, Ralthus Hayes, Edwin King, Clinton Collier, and Lawrence Guyot, announcing their...
From the Spears (Lawrence D.) Civil Rights Collection. Report by Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent of the New Orleans office on the progress of the investigation of the attack on Lawrence Spears, David Owen, and Rabbi Arthur...
From the Ellzey (Wesley James) Papers. A teaching certificate issued by the Pike County (Miss.) Superintendent of Education, T.E. Tate, recognizing that Wesley James Ellzey was certified to teach for a year, starting in June 1875.
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Statement by James Farmer, National Director of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), issued on May 17, 1965, in support of the Congressional Challenge of the Mississippi Freedom...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Statement by John Lewis, Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), issued on May 17, 1965, in support of the Congressional Challenge of the Mississippi Freedom...
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. Mississippi license plate 47B491 issued by Marshall County (Miss.) showing an expiration date of October 1964.
A document issued in Richmond announcing Virginia Governor Letcher's appointment of Joseph C. Lawrence of New York City to a two-year term as a New York State Commissioner for the Commonwealth of Virginia.
From the United States. Army. Provost-Marshal's Office (4th District, Richmond, VA.) Documents. Partially completed form from April 1865, used to certify that deserters from the Confederate forces had taken the Amnesty Oath issued under the...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; "A Call to Action" issued by the Commission on Religion and Race of the National Council of Churches, requesting the support of churches for the Congressional Challenge effort led by the...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Report issued by the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP), dated July 7, 1965. Discusses the struggles, progress, and plans of the party with regard to the Congressional...
