Finding aid for manuscript collection. ; Primarily copies of speeches prepared for delivery by Alabama Governor George C. Wallace between 1961 and 1965; includes also biographical information, copies of interviews, statements, and telegrams. For...
Finding aid for manuscript collection. ; The papers consist primarily of material related to Gray's law enforcement career in Mississippi. For the full finding aid, see http://www.lib.usm.edu/~archives/m387.htm.
Finding aid for manuscript collection. ; This collection contains materials on Dr. Leslie A. Falk's medical career and his Civil Rights activities in Mississippi, but the bulk of the collection consists primarily of materials on the Underground...
Finding aid for manuscript collection. ; The collection contains correspondence and other records documenting Miller's work with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in Mississippi, primarily between 1964 and 1966. For the full finding...
Finding aid for manuscript collection. ; This collection consists primarily of a photocopy of an eight-page letter addressed to Mrs. Anna Murray of Summit, New Jersey, dated June 25, 1964. Sowerwine wrote the letter while training in Oxford, Ohio,...
Finding aid for manuscript collection. ; The papers contain personal papers; records related to Rose's religion-centered journalistic, fund-raising, and activist work; and material related to his non-religious employment in journalism and music...
Finding aid for manuscript collection. ; This collection primarily contains materials concerning a Black History celebration that was held on February 18, 2001. The celebration commemorated the life and legacy of the late Mrs. Helen Fields...
Finding aid for manuscript collection. ; This collection consists primarily of material for the book, Letters From Mississippi (1965, republished 2002). The book contains letters written in 1964 by Mississippi Freedom Summer volunteers. The papers...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Statement by four Harvard Law School students calling for effective federal intervention in southern civil rights conflicts, primarily through the executive branch.
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...
Copy of a typewritten newsletter, the Mantinband Megillah, from Rabbi Charles and Anna Mantinband to friends dated 1963, in which the Mantinbands discuss events in their life during the past year. Included in the letter is information about their...
From the Zwerling (Matthew) Freedom Summer Collection. Copy of a typewritten document distributed by the New York office of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Document outlines the status of various legislative proposals in...
From the Bilbo (Theodore G.) Papers; view of the Leesdale Tower, set among tall pine saplings, with a gravel road nearby. The Homochitto National Forest is located primarily in Adams, Franklin, Wilkinson, and Amite Counties, in Southwestern...
Photograph of a railroad worker; records in this collection were secured primarily from the Association of American Railroads; the Gulf, Mobile & Ohio Railroad Company; and the Mississippi Central Railroad Company; 6 x 4
From the Lewis (Levi) Letters; Levi Lewis, born October 16, 1841, was reared on the family farm in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. The oldest son of Robert S. and Mary Lewis, he had an older sister, Lydia Rugar, and two younger brothers, Robert T....
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...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on October 21, 1996 with Mr. Charles Cobb (born 1943) in Washington, D.C. In the summer of 1962, he was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) field secretary in Ruleville, Mississippi, where he and...
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...
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 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...
