Oral history.; Page discusses his family, his experiences as a black physician, the civil rights movement, his work in state politics, and the Mississippi Humanities Council.
Oral history.; Mr. Jesse Benjamin Richmond Jr. grew up in Jefferson Davis County, where he attended school. Mr. Richmond graduated from the Commonwealth College of Funeral Service in Houston, Texas and served an apprenticeship at Cook-Richmond...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on 1995 November 21 with Dr. Peter Orris (born 1945). Dr. Orris participated in his first civil rights demonstration when he was only eleven. In 1964, he was recruited to participate in the Summer Project in...
Oral history.; Mrs. Alyce West Richardson was born on August 2, 1930, in Clarksdale, Mississippi. She graduated from Cleveland High School and Delta State Teachers College and worked as the secretary-treasurer of West Implement Company, Inc., and...
Oral history.; Dr. John Paul Quon was born June 11, 1942, in Moorhead, Mississippi. His parents emigrated from China to Mississippi to participate in a family-owned grocery store. Dr. Quon was in the first public school class in Mississippi that...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on November 16, 1977 with George Rogers (born 1927). Mr. Rogers, a Rhodes Scholar, was elected to the Mississippi House of Representatives, where he served for more than twenty years. He became well known for his...
Oral history.; Four interviews conducted on October 1, 2, and 23 of 1975, and July 1, 1976 with Mr. Hugh Clegg at his home in Anguilla, Mississippi. Clegg was born on July 17, 1898 in Mathiston, Mississippi. Clegg graduated from Millsaps...
Oral history.; Three interviews conducted on April 28, 30 and May 7, 1981 with Mr. Claude Ramsay at his office in Jackson, Mississippi. Ramsay was born in 1916 in Ocean Springs, Mississippi. He served briefly in the Civilian Conservation Corps...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on November 14, 1995 with Dr. Barry Clemson (born 1941). He attributes his interest in civil rights work in part to his membership in the Church of the Brethren, one of the "key civil rights churches." Clemson was...
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 November 17, 1995 with Mr. Roger Barnhill. He was born on November 12, 1940 in Lincoln, Nebraska. Barnhill was recruited into the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in his senior year at...
From the Tigert (David Neal) Letters; this collection contains approximately 200 letters written by David Neal Tigert to his family while he was at basic training at Fort Sam Houston in Texas. Letter from Tigert to his mother and father from...
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. Two-page letter written by Ned Opton, begun on November 22, 1966 and continued on December 10, addressed to Kathy (Dahl) and John (presumed to be her first husband John Cummings Tappiener). Opton...
From the McCain (William D.) Pamphlet Collection; Under capitalism, African Americans have been "retarded, oppressed, persecuted," but under Communism African Americans will receive full and equal status as citizens.
From the Hazelton (Margaret J.) Freedom Summer Collection; Eighteen-page handwritten journal authored by Margaret Hazelton. The journal provides a day-by-day account of Hazelton's experience as a Freedom Summer volunteer working in Clarksdale,...
From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection. Position paper written by Aaron Henry, chairman of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) in 1964. He describes the attempts of the MFDP to obtain delegation status in the National...
From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection. Newsletter of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Vol. 5, no. 23. Features articles about the efforts of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) to increase its...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection."White paper" on Mississippi agriculture, manufacturing, income, taxation, and their relation to the economic status of Black Mississippians.
From the Ellzey (Wesley James) Papers. A letter from C.A.Lany to Wesley Ellzey dated October 6, 1887. In this letter, C.A. Lany describes her health and economic status in the town of Mount Pleasant, Texas. C.A. Lany has fallen ill, and money is...
Transcribed copy of a letter from Zoya Zeman to her father dated July 7, 1964, in which she discusses Ross Barnett and other Southern politicians and their influence on the racial attitudes of many southern whites. She goes on to say that people...
