From the Bates (Gladys Noel) Papers. Typewritten account by Gladys Noel Bates of the lawsuit to gain equal pay for African American teachers in Mississippi, dated May 16, 1992. Mrs. Bates describes the process leading up to filing of the suit...
Resolution of the Jackson State College National Alumni Association, Inc., condemning the May 15, 1970, shooting of student protesters at Jackson State College by Mississippi law enforcement officials. The shootings resulted in the wounding of...
Telegram from Sanford H. Kadish, president, and Bertram H. Davis, general secretary, of the American Association of University Professors, to Dr. John A. Peoples Jr., president of Jackson State College. The telegram states that the AAUP has asked...
Letter from Walter Williams, president of the Chicago chapter of the Jackson State College Alumni Association, to Frances D. Robertson, president of the Jackson State College National Alumni Association, expressing sorrow regarding the May 15,...
From the George A. Owens Papers. This letter, on American Friends Service Committee letterhead, refers to a speech that Dr. Beittel gave at a meeting of the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. Beittel refers to this...
Transcription of an interview conducted with Frank D. Barber. Barber became involved in politics when he was just ten years old going door-to-door hanging flyers for Paul B. Johnson Sr. This interest continued throughout his adult life alongside...
Transcription of an oral history interview conducted in Cleveland, Mississippi with Tommy Naron. Naron talks of his life in Cleveland and his many years of public service in the area.
Resolution written by the Jackson-Hinds chapter of the Jackson State College Alumni Association condemning the May 15, 1970, shooting of student protesters at Jackson State College by Mississippi law enforcement officials. The shootings resulted in...
Letter from the Jamaica Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), signed by co-chairmen Claire Foster, John Mazella, and Juliette Hansen, to President Richard M. Nixon. The letter asks the president to use...
Health Hazard Evaluation of Police Officers and Firefighters After Hurricane Katrina --- New Orleans, Louisiana, October 17--28 and November 30--December 5, 2005 4 pages (PDF version).
From the Bates (Gladys Noel) Papers. Typewritten letter from Robert L. Carter to A.A. Alexander on letterhead of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, dated April 5, 1951. Carter summarizes discussions of the National Legal Committee of...
From the Bates (Gladys Noel) Papers. Typewritten letter from Robert L. Carter to A.L. Johnson on letterhead of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, dated April 19, 1949. Carter writes to urge Johnson to influence the Teachers Association...
From the George A. Owens Papers. This memo regarding Eugene Holmes' performance as affiliate artist at Tougaloo College from Wesley A. Hotchkiss, general secretary of the American Missionary Association, is the cover letter for two other...
From the Bates (Gladys Noel) Papers. Typewritten letter from A.L. Johnson, president of the Mississippi Association of Teachers in Colored Schools (MATCS), on association letterhead, to A.J. Noel, dated December 22, 1947. Johnson writes of the...
From the George A. Owens Papers. The extensive list of resolutions includes condemnation of continuing practices of discrimination in Mississippi; encouraging African Americans to press for full implementation of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.; a...
Letter.; Siillers congratulates Satterfield on his election as President of the American Bar Association and welcomes him to the Legal Education Advisory Committee (LEAC)"" Sillers also rails against the United States Supreme Court for not adhering...
