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...
From the Mary Winton Pulley Papers. First photograph taken of the Beta Delta chapter of the Alpha Sigma Alpha sorority at Mississippi Normal College on 20 May 1938. Names are listed on side 2.
From the Adams (Victoria Gray) Papers. Statement to Attorney General Ramsey Clark compiled by the National Committee for Free Elections in Sunflower (NCFES) and delivered by a delegation led by Congressman William F. Ryan and Bayard Rustin....
From the Map Collection. A map of Central America. Scale of British miles and geographical miles. Ruined cities are indicated by a rectangle drawn around the name. If the name of a ruined city is not know, it is listed as Ruins. A long note in the...
From the Campbell (Will D.) Papers; Report prepared by the Southern Regional Council that provides a detailed account of civil rights-related activities and incidents that took place during 1963. The events are listed according to state and...
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...
Photograph of J.B. George as a degree-class senior; his credits are listed as: president and vice president of the YMCA, president of the Prestonian Literary Society, president of the World Affairs Club, president of the Masonic Club, and Debate...
A two-page photocopied and typed letter from Nancy and Joe Ellin to "Mom and Dad" [Joe's parents] dated July 3, [1964]. The letter describes preparations for the Freedom Schools and the compiling of a "Freedom Booklet." The Ellins talk of the area...
Yearbook page with photographs of the Little Symphony and the Opera workshop. Participants in the symphony and the cast of The bartered bride by Bedrich Smetena are listed. From the 1950 Southerner yearbook on page 83.
From the Higdon (May) Collection. A notebook containing several pages of hand written mathematical word problems, and the names and ages of May Higdon's students at the schools in which she taught (Gilchrist, Homochitto, Chamberlain, Topisaw, Nola,...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; List of bombings that occurred in Mississippi from June 16 to October 4, 1964. Prepared by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the incidents of violence are listed in...
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...
A collection of six 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...
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 Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; News release of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP), dated October 30, 1964. Addresses the need for heightened investigation of illegal political practices against the MFDP...
Oral history.; Dorothea Allsup was born on February 4, 1916. Her family resided in Nebraska, but they moved to Epes, Alabama and then Macon, Mississippi, when she was seventeen. While Mrs. Allsup attended high school in Macon she met her future...
Oral history.; Norman discusses the creation and work of the Mississippi Humanities Council, the people responsible for its early development, and its programs concerning race relations and public education.
