Telefax sent to Dr. John A. Peoples, president of Jackson State College, from faculty and staff at Kent State University, expressing sympathy following the May 15, 1970, shooting of student protesters at Jackson State College by Mississippi law...
Telefax from Harris L. Dante, Chairman of the Faculty Center at Kent State University, to Dr. John A. Peoples Jr., president of Jackson State College, expressing sympathy following the May 15, 1970, shooting of student protesters at Jackson State...
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 H. P. Moran, an engineer from Biloxi, Mississippi, addressed to Dr. James Creek of Harvard University [the writer probably meant Dr. James Cheek, president of Howard University]. Moran responds to Dr. Cheek's comments regarding the the...
Photograph of federal troops and vehicles standing in front of the Lyceum building on the University of Mississippi campus. Deployed in 1962, these federal troops quelled the rioting at the University of Mississippi. Anger over the enrollment of...
Photograph showing military trucks and jeeps on the University of Mississippi campus. Deployed in 1962, these federal troops quelled the rioting at the University of Mississippi. Anger over the enrollment of James Meredith, the first...
Photograph of several federal soldiers standing beneath the trees in the Circle area in front of the Lyceum Building on the campus of the University of Mississippi. Photograph showing several soldiers standing in a parking lot near the County...
Black-and-white photograph of a memorial located at Jackson State University honoring Phillip Lafayette Gibbs (1948-1970) and James Earl Green (1952-1970), the two students killed during the May 15, 1970, shooting of student protesters by...
Letter from Martin L. Harvey, dean of student affairs at Southern University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to John A. Peoples, president of Jackson State College, expressing sympathy and support following the May 15, 1970, shooting of student protesters...
Finding aid for a photograph collection located at the University of Mississippi. William Wert Cooper, Jr. was a senior student majoring in Commerce at the University of Mississippi when James Meredith enrolled at the University of Mississippi....
Finding aid for a manuscript collection located at the University of Mississippi. Materials related to Russell H. Barrett's tenure as professor of political science at the University of Mississippi. Much of the collections pertains to the...
Photograph showing two photographers walking the University of Mississippi campus, likely covering the riots that took place the day before. Anger over the enrollment of James Meredith, the first African-American student to attend the University of...
Photograph showing a line of soldiers forming across the street and lawns of fraternity houses. Photograph showing several soldiers standing in a parking lot near the County Courthouse in Oxford, Mississippi. Deployed in 1962, these federal troops...
Photograph of the WMPS 68 van parked next to the curb on the University of Mississippi campus. A policeman in the photograph faces the van with his back to the camera. WMPS 68 most likely covered the events of the riot which took place the night...
Photograph showing soldiers removing furniture blocking the street near the Kappa Alpha fraternity house. Deployed in 1962, these federal troops quelled the rioting at the University of Mississippi. Anger over the enrollment of James Meredith, the...
Photograph showing soldiers driving military jeeps down the street near a fraternity house after removing furniture placed in the street by students. Deployed in 1962, these federal troops quelled the rioting at the University of Mississippi. Anger...
Photograph showing a line of soldiers standing in the street blocked with furniture next to the Kappa Alpha fraternity house. Deployed in 1962, these federal troops quelled the rioting at the University of Mississippi. Anger over the enrollment of...
Photograph of students sitting on the grass watching a group of federal troops gather information. Deployed in 1962, these federal troops quelled the rioting at the University of Mississippi. Anger over the enrollment of James Meredith, the first...
Photograph showing the police stopping cars in the street on the University of Mississippi campus. Police were present as a result of rioting that took place the day before. Anger over the enrollment of James Meredith, the first African-American...
Photograph of a fire-ravaged van turned on its side on the University of Mississippi campus. The van received damage during rioting that took place on September 30, 1962. Anger over the enrollment of James Meredith, the first African-American...
