From the Schutt (Jane M.) Papers Typewritten agenda for a June 15, 1960, meeting of the Mississippi Advisory Committee on Civil Rights. Main discussion topics include civil rights, the Civil Rights Act and other legislation relating to...
From the Schutt (Jane M.) Papers Typewritten agenda for an April 13, 1960, meeting of the Mississippi Advisory Committee on Civil Rights. Main discussion topics include civil rights, voting and barriers to voting, and public education on the...
From the Schutt (Jane M.) Papers; Printed poster encouraging Black citizens of Coahoma County, Mississippi, to join in civil rights actions to work for improved circumstances in their own lives. The poster gives reasons for a boycott of...
From the Schutt (Jane M.) Papers; Advance notice of the third meeting of the Mississippi Advisory Committee on Civil Rights to be held in Jackson on April 13, 1960. Discussion topics planned were civil rights and voting. Committee members are Dr....
Letter.; Sillers writes that he regrets he missed visiting with Stephens in Jackson. He explains that he was unexpectedly called to a very important meeting by the Attorney General. According to Sillers, the meeting concerned social integration...
Letter.; Sillers thanks Pierce for his previous letters. He notes that he wishes he were in Washington, D.C., to see the debate over the Civil Rights Bill happening in the Senate. He writes hopefully that he has heard those politicians who oppose...
From the Adam Daniel Beittel Papers. Typewritten news release from the Mississippi Advisory Committee of the United States Commission on Civil Rights. The news release announces a public meeting on July 29, 1964, at the Federal (Post Office)...
From the Schutt (Jane M.) Papers Typewritten minutes of the March 24, 1961, meeting of the Mississippi Advisory Committee on Civil Rights. Recommendations were approved to be included in a final report to the full Commission related to the...
From the Rankin (Annie) Papers. Three-page handwritten letter signed Annie [Rankin] to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Stewart dated October 1, 1968. Rankin writes of being ill but trying to continue with part of her civil rights work. She writes of...
From the Schutt (Jane M.) Papers Typewritten agenda for the June 14, 1961, meeting of the Mississippi Advisory Committee on Civil Rights. Topics include employment on highway construction, goals for equality, and a freedom ride near Parchman...
From the Schutt (Jane M.) Papers Handwritten page giving minutes of a February 17, 1960, meeting of the Mississippi Advisory Committee on Civil Rights. Members present: Rev. Murray Cox, Adm. Robert J. Briscoe, Mrs. Wallis I. Schutt, Dr. A.B....
From the Adam Daniel Beittel Papers. Typewritten agenda for the March 20, 1963 meeting of the Mississippi Advisory Committee of the United States Commission on Civil Rights. Topics discussed: the Greyhound bus station at Clarksdale,...
Letter.; Sillers compliments the editor of the Commercial Appeal on an editorial titled ""Reveal the Authors"" that suggested that a Senate committee should investigate all of the people who contributed to the writing of the Civil Rights Act and...
From the Rankin (Annie) Papers. Three handwritten letters. The first is a transmittal letter to Mrs. Frank M. Stewart; the second and third are to John Bell Williams, Governor of Mississippi, and Richard M. Nixon, President of the United...
From the Rankin (Annie) Papers. One-page handwrittenl Letter to Mrs. Frank Stewart signed Mr. and Mrs. Judge Rankin & Annie V. Rankin plus a two-page report of activities. In the letter, Mrs. Rankin writes of her health and active life, and...
From the Rankin (Annie) Papers. Four-page handwritten letter signed Mr. and Mrs. Judge Rankin to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Stewart dated June 5, 1967. Rankin writes of her continuing work in civil rights and of her opposition to African Americans...
Finding aid for a manuscript collection located at the University of Mississippi. Printed material and manuscripts that document race relations, civil rights, Black power, white supremacist groups, and multiculturalism in the United States,...
From the Rankin (Annie) Papers. Two-page handwritten letter signed Mr. and Mrs. Judge Rankin to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Stewart dated April 15, 1967. Rankin explains more about the loss of teachers (re letter of April 7, 1967) and dissatisfaction...
Letter.; Sillers writes to Dr. Wynne regarding the request for a personal reference for Fred Miller, the editor of the ""Mound Bayou News Digest"" Miller has requested donations from Tom DeWeese for his newspaper on the grounds that his paper is...
Letter.; Sillers writes DeWeese to tell him that all of his sources attest to the fact that Fred Miller is an honest African-American citizen who supports the maintanence of segregation for the betterment of both races. Sillers notes that Dr....
