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...
Transcribed copy of an essay written by a Freedom School volunteer. Describes the locations of the Freedom Schools, subjects taught, enrollment, activities, as well as the students' concerns regarding discrimination. Also discusses the burdens of...
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...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Rabbi Arthur J. Lelyveld shortly after he and fellow voter registration volunteers Lawrence Spears and David Owen were attacked by two Caucasian men from Collins, Mississippi. The assault took...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Volunteer Barbara Schwartzbaum, who was a teacher in the Freedom School at Morning Star Baptist Church, and local African American residents sing during Freedom Summer in Hattiesburg,...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; David Owen receiving treatment for head and arm injuries sustained after he and fellow voter registration volunteers Lawrence Spears and Rabbi Arthur J. Lelyveld were attacked by two Caucasian...
Photograph of an editorial cartoon entitled, "Saturday Morning at Hattiesburg Hall." Drawing of female students drying their hair in front of Hattiesburg Hall. Also found in Dearly Bought, Deeply Treasured on page 24, and in the 1920 Neka Camon...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. A Freedom School class hosted by Morning Star Baptist Church meets during Freedom Summer, 1964, on the lawn outside the church, located in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Students who have been...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. A Freedom School class hosted by Morning Star Baptist Church meets during Freedom Summer, 1964 on the lawn outside the church, located in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Students who have been...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Members of a Freedom School class sitting on the lawn of Morning Star Baptist Church in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer 1964. The teacher is SNCC Field Secretary Barbara...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. An African American man stands in front of a tree in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer, 1964. In the background are Freedom School students singing with volunteer Barbara...
A Bill: To be entitled, "An Act to facilitate the settlement of claims of deceased officers and soldiers." By Mr. Perkins; Read first and second times, made special order from Monday next, after morning hour, and day to day, and ordered to be...
A Bill: To be entitled, "An Act for the prevention of frauds on the revenues of the Postoffice Department, and prohibiting the transportation of mailable matter over the post routes of the Confederate States by unauthorized associations of persons...
A Bill: To be entitled, "An Act to lay taxes for the common defense, and carry on the Government of the Confederate States." By Mr. Kenner, from Committee on Ways and Means; Read first and second times, make special order for Monday after morning...
From the Merritt Mauzey Papers.;Small, unpublished ink sketch of a horse and cart in Benares, India which was created by Merritt Mauzey and appeared in a Dallas Morning News article (20 February 1972). 6.5" x 3.5"
From the Merritt Mauzey Papers.; Small ink sketch of Hagia Sophia mosque in Istanbul, Turkey which was created by Merritt Mauzey and appeared in a Dallas Morning News article (20 February 1972). 6.5" x 6"
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 December 3, 1971 with the Honorable Charles Evers at his office in Fayette, Mississippi. Evers was born on September 11, 1922 in Decatur, Mississippi. In 1950, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in social...
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...
