Finding aid for a manuscript collection located at the University of Mississippi. Records of John Davis Williams, Chancellor of The University of Mississippi from 1946-1968. Williams presided over the University's rapid expansion following World...
Finding aid for a manuscript collection located at the University of Mississippi. Materials pertaining to the 1955 resignation of Morton King, a professor of sociology, from the University of Mississippi in protest of Chancellor J.D. Williams'...
Speech made on telelvision by Governor John Bell Williams of Mississippi one week after the the May 15, 1970, shooting of student protestors at Jackson State College by Mississippi law enforcement officials. The shootings resulted in the wounding...
Speech for television by Governor John Bell Williams of Mississippi recounting the official version of events leading up to the the May 15, 1970, shooting of student protestors at Jackson State College by Mississippi law enforcement officials. The...
Transcription of an oral history interview conducted with the Honorable John Pearson of Rosedale, Mississippi. Judge Pearson discusses his life and the many years of public service he performed.
Singleton Springs Cemetery, Tate County Mississippi, Hunter's Chapel Road T5-R9-S24 by Louise Cox Fox contains tombstone listings, obituaries, and genealogical information. Cover by Tommy Fox.
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,...
A middle-aged woman stirs a pot on a stove. She looks straight into the camera, wearing a button up oxford type shirt. Written on the back of the photo: Nov. 9, 1983, Aurie Williams Milam, 11851 Highdale #2583, Dallas, Tex 75234.
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...
Finding aid for a manuscript collection located at the University of Mississippi. Correspondence and printed matter documenting the career of George M. Street at the University of Mississippi, including materials collected by Street pertaining...
Finding aid for a manuscript collection located at the University of Mississippi. Materials collected by Alfred Holt Stone (1870-1955), a lawyer and cotton planter in Mississippi, pertaining to the issues of race and slavery from the late 18th...
Finding aid for a manuscript collection located at the University of Mississippi. Manuscripts and correspondence related to Katallagete, the journal of the Committee of Southern Churchmen. Published from the 1960s to 1991, the journal was edited...
Finding aid for a manuscript collection located at the University of Mississippi. Materials documenting the family, educational, and professional life of James Meredith, the first African American to attend the University of Mississippi. ...
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...
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 several soldiers standing in a parking lot near the County Courthouse in Oxford, Mississippi. Deployed in 1962, these federal troops quelled the rioting at the University of Mississippi. Anger over the enrollment of James...
