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
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...
Photograph of the March 31, 1987, article in Student printz about the National Invitation Tournament basketball victory over La Salle University. The headline reads, "Eagle fever riding high."
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Richard Wallmeyer. An elephant dressed as Julius Caesar, with toga and laurel wreath, holds a clump of grapes in one hand. In his other hand is a grape he is about to eat. Behind the elephant...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on February 2, 1976 with James Cohen (born 1920). Since 1953, Mr. Cohen has been active in several civic associations in Hattiesburg and provides insight into the city's race relations and politics from the 1950s...
From the Adams (Victoria Gray) Papers. Decision of the United States Court of Appeals, 5th Circuit, in the case of Fannie Lou Hamer, et all., vs. Cecil C. Campbell, et al., handed down on March 11, 1966. The Court ruled to postpone the upcoming...
From the Adams (Victoria Gray) Papers. Details of a March 26, 1968, meeting for the staff of the Poor People's Campaign, including the names of those in attendance, minutes of the meeting, and the strategy for march planned during April for...
From the Belcher (Granville W. and Mary Caroline) Letters. Granville W. Belcher, a farmer from Martinsville, Henry County, Virginia, served in company F, 57th Virginia Infantry during the Civil War. Belcher writes to his wife, Mary Caroline, on...
From the Spight (Thomas) Letters. Pages from a diary written by Thomas Spight, Spight, a member of the 34th Mississippi Infantry during the Civil War, dated 18 March - 14 April 1865. Spight describes his unit's march from Augusta, Georgia,...
The Normal College News, vol. IV, no. 32, dating 3 March 1923, outlines events and activities at the Mississippi Normal College. The motto is "Get there on time and stay to the end."
From the T.P. Scott Papers. A letter, dated 2 March 1910, from Marshall McCullough to T.P. Scott regarding the establishment of the Mississippi Normal College.
From the T.P. Scott Papers. Letter, dated 7 March 1910, from T.P. Scott to "a few of the leading teachers in the state" asking them to invest $.25 each to help establish the Mississippi Normal College.
The front page of this version of the Student Printz on 20 March 1964 does not include the article "Frazier's attempt to matriculate is unsuccessful." This is the version that was distributed.
Photograph of President McCain and Roger Johnson on a tractor. McCain vowed to keep the campus "dusty or muddy with construction." Caption reads, "Ah Heck! I'll Start It Myself!" This photo was featured in the Student Printz on March 28, 1958; 7 x...
Front page aricle from the Student Printz, "No Confidence, Faculty Senate Votes After Two Suspensions." Featured in the Student Printz, vol. 88, issue 39 (9 March 2004) on page 1.
