Oral history.; An interview conducted on October 24, 1975 with the Honorable O.H. Barnett (born 1902). Mr. Barnett was elected Circuit Court Judge in 1958 and served until 1975. He presided during the civil rights movement in the 1960s, during the...
Oral history.; Mr. Terry Allen Broadus was born on October 11, 1938. Mr. Broadus enrolled at Perkinston Agricultural High School in 1952 and later received a baseball scholarship to attend Perkinston Junior College. In the late 1960s, Mr. Broadus...
Oral history. Interview conducted on March 4, 1972 with Associate Justice Thomas Pickens Brady, of the Supreme Court of Mississippi in his chambers in Jackson, Mississippi. Brady was born on August 6, 1903, in New Orleans, Louisiana. He...
Oral history.;Mr. F.W. Bishop was born on December 11, 1897, near Shaw, Mississippi. His family farmed in the Skene community before moving to Cleveland, Mississippi, in 1911. Mr. Bishop began his education in a one-room schoolhouse in Skene and...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on November 11, 1995 with Larry Rubin (born 1942). In 1961, he helped to register voters in the South for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. In late 1963 and in 1964, Mr. Rubin worked as a civil rights...
Oral history.; Mr. Jack Raymond Reed was born on May 19, 1924, in Tupelo, Mississippi. In 1941, Mr. Reed graduated from Tupelo High School and he then entered the military and World War II as part of the Signal Intelligence Service, U.S. Army of...
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...
From the Ben-Ami (Rabbi David Z.) Papers. This is the first page of an issue of The Temple journal, showing an article promoting a speaking engagement of Rabbi Ben-Ami on April 4, [1965]. Ben-Ami's topic was Jews in the Civil Rights Movement. Also...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. In Oxford, Ohio, African-American minister speaking in park (?) from podium almost obscured by American flag in foreground.
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. In Oxford, Ohio, African-American minister speaking in park (?) from podium with American flag in foreground.
From Mrs. W's 1901 Diary. Mrs. W.'s diary paints a vivid portrait of the daily life of a middle class homemaker in 1901, and constitutes a daily account of the author's activities from April 1 - August 7, 1901.Very little biographical or historical...
From the Ben-Ami (Rabbi David Z.) Papers. Irene [last name unknown] writes to Rabbi and Rebetzin Ben-Ami from San Francisco about her speaking engagements there and how she misses Hattiesburg.
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Proposal to select 25 Black Mississippi students, age 14-18, who had participated in freedom schools, and send them to Europe or Mexico for a speaking tour and to live for several months.
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; This flyer advertises a speaking engagement for James Houston, a candidate for the third Congressional district of Mississippi, in 1964. The backside of the flyer explains the Mississippi...
Transcribed copy of a letter from Zoya Zeman to her family dated May 23, 1964, in which she writes about preparations for her summer participation in the Mississippi Freedom Project. She also asks for input from her family about her summer schedule...
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 Belcher (Granville W. and Mary Caroline) Letters. Charles P. Belcher writes to his sister [in-law?] Mary Caroline Belcher on 13 February 1862 about his health and recent war news. 6" x 7"
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Local activist Earline Boyd, Secretary of the Forrest County unit of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP), speaks to a meeting of the MFDP at the Mt. Zion Baptist Church in...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; A group of children from the Mobile Street area participate in a Freedom School class in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer, 1964. Second from the left is Charles Ray Leggett, and...
