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...
From the Schutt (Jane M.) Papers Typewritten minutes of the Mississippi Advisory Committee on June 19, 1962, in Jackson, Mississippi. Committee chair Rev. Murray Cox presented a statement on the parameters of the open meeting, the limits of...
From the Adam Daniel Beittel Papers. Typewritten news release from the Mississippi Advisory Committee of the United States Commission on Civil Rights following the Council's December 14, 1962, meeting. Jane M. Schutt had been appointed chair...
From the Schutt (Jane M.) Papers Typewritten minutes of the Mississippi Advisory Committee on March 14, 1962, in Greenville, Mississippi. Committee chair Rev. Murray Cox presented a statement on the parameters of the open meeting, the limits of...
Finding aid for a manuscript collection located at the University of Mississippi. Thomas G. Abernethy represented Mississippi in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1943-1973. The 445 boxes in this collection contain files created during...
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 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 Schutt (Jane M.) Papers Typewritten memorandum dated April 27, 1962, from Cornelius P. Cotter to members of the Mississippi State Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. Cotter notifies committee members that Rev....
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....
From the Schutt (Jane M.) Papers Typewritten letter on the letterhead of the Commission on Civil Rights, dated October 21, 1960, written by Cornelius P. Cotter to Rev. Murray Cox. Swan declines to confirm that a national representative can be...
Call for a boycott of white-owned businesses in Jackson, Mississippi, by the Committee of Concerned Students and Citizens to protest the May 15, 1970, shooting of student protestors at Jackson State College by Mississippi law enforcement officials....
From the Schutt (Jane M.) Papers Handwritten page giving minutes of a September 19, 1960, meeting of the Mississippi Advisory Committee on Civil Rights. Members present: J.L. Allen, Adm. Robert P. Briscoe, Rev. Murray Cox, Dr. George Powers,...
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 list of recommendations from the Mississippi Advisory Committee to the Commission on Civil Rights. Recommendations include a request for more specific guidance from the national commission, help with...
From the Schutt (Jane M.) Papers Typewritten agenda for the April 19, 1961, meeting of the Mississippi Advisory Committee on Civil Rights. Agenda topics include: distribution of "Civil Rights Provisions of the U.S. Criminal Code;" the...
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 letter with handwritten date (1-5-62) from Murray Cox to Dick Sanders of Jackson, Mississippi, in response to an earlier communication from Sanders. Cox responds to Sanders' criticisms of the State...
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 Typewritten letter on the letterhead of the United States Commission on Civil Rights, dated May 9, 1963, from Mrs. Wallis I. Schutt to members of the State Advisory Committee to the Commission on Civil Rights....
From the Schutt (Jane M.) Papers Typewritten letter from Henry M. Shine, dated December 21, 1959, to the members of the newly formed Mississippi Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. Members of the committee are not named....
