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George Robson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-422
Scope and Contents

Printed material concerning mostly civil disobedience in the U.S. during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Among the items in the collection are a pamphlet entitled “The Plot Against Black America” and Combat: The Newsletter that keeps you informed about the revolutionary struggle in America today.

Dates: 1968 - 1972
Found in: Manuscripts

Rosamond Architectural Records Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-541
Scope and Content Records of Columbus architect William I. Rosamond (1912-1973) and the successor firm of his son, William H. Rosamond. The firm also included architect Fred Harrison (1924-1981). Architects Mathew L. Virden (1930-1992) and Robert Ivy were later associated with the William H. Rosamond firm and brought drawings from other firms to the collection. Drawings for the firms of Virden and Fields (Greenville), Virden, Fields and Roberson and Virden, Fields and Alexander, Dean, Dale and Dean (Columbus...
Dates: 1927 - 2000
Found in: Manuscripts

James Scarbrough Papers

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Identifier: MSS-27
Scope and Content

Papers of Scarbrough, a farmer of Webster County, Mississippi. Personal correspondence, accounts, promissory notes, tax receipts, and other business papers from Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Sumner (now Webster) Counties, Mississippi, Confederate military papers, memorabilia, and other papers of Scarbrough, his wife Sara (Wells) Scarbrough, and their sons, Charles Wells, R.G. and G.W. Scarbrough.

Dates: 1822 - 1917
Found in: Manuscripts

Segregation and Integration Miscellaneous Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-131
Scope and Content

Concerns the civil rights movement in Mississippi from 1920-1971. Includes handbills, correspondence, pamphlets, brochures, speeches, newsletters, and newspaper clippings.

Dates: 1920 - 1971
Found in: Manuscripts

Frank E. Smith Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-94
Scope and Content

Collection of Frank Smith (1918-1997) includes the following: material pertaining to Mr. Smith's work with TVA; material accumulated as a result of his service on the Southern Regional Council; and materials for the five volume series he edited, Conservation in the U.S.: A Documentary History.

Dates: 1962 - 1973
Found in: Manuscripts

Hazel Brannon Smith Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-445
Scope and Content Letters, clippings, pamphlets, certificates, artifact and other materials concerning Smith (1914-1994). The bulk of Smith's papers were destroyed in a fire at the Lexington Advertiser. Smith was born in Gadsden, Alabama, and graduated from the University of Alabama in 1935 with a B.A. in Journalism. In that year she came to Mississippi and purchased the Durant News. By 1943, that paper was successful enough to allow Smith to purchase the Lexington Advertiser, which she edited and published...
Dates: 1945 - 1976
Found in: Manuscripts

James Talbert Thomas, III, Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-510
Scope and Content

Plantation records of Egypt Plantation near Kruger, Holmes County, Mississippi, which has been successively owned by James Talbert Thomas II, James Talbert Thomas III and other family members. Includes deeds, abstracts of title and other land records, ledgers and other business records, wills and legal records. Originals and some photocopies. See also Howard Langfitt collection for script and photos of farm.

Dates: 1896 - 1972
Found in: Manuscripts

James Kenneth Toler Papers

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Identifier: MSS-89
Scope and Content Papers of journalist Toler (1904-1966) include correspondence, speeches, press releases, clippings, and photographs, chiefly concerning political, legislative, and racial events in Mississippi, during his career as a correspondent for the Associated Press and the Memphis Commercial Appeal. Toler was born in Crowley, Louisiana, and attended Louisiana State University. He began his career on the Crowley Daily Signal. Toler's specialty was Mississippi politics. From 1928 on he covered the...
Dates: 1928 - 1966
Found in: Manuscripts

Tombigbee Council on Human Relations Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-339
Scope and Content The collection includes correspondence, minutes, reports, surveys, newsletters, and other documents. The original collection (8 cubic feet) consists of the organization's official files. Earl Thomas, a former member of TCHR, donated his personal files (1 cubic foot) concerning the organization. The folders in the Thomas Addition are listed following the TCHR official files. Notable folders include the Black Appalachian Commission, Black Arts Music Society, Black Candidates, Black Child...
Dates: 1967 - 1976
Found in: Manuscripts

Sue Pelham Trigg Papers

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Identifier: MSS-284
Scope and Content Papers of Trigg, teacher and historian, of Greenville, Mississippi. Manuscripts of articles by Miss Trigg about Greenville and Washington County, relating to local history; 28 letters (1796-1848) of the Bodley family of Kentucky and Mississippi, chiefly to Thomas H. Bodley, and 10 letters (1784-1788) to Dr. High Shiell of Kentucky. Some of Miss Trigg's articles were published in Memoirs of Henry Tillinghast Ireys, Papers of the Washington County Historical Society, 1910-1915, edited by...
Dates: 1784 - 1944
Found in: Manuscripts

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Choctaw Indians -- Mississippi -- History. 1
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Confederate States of America. Army. Mississippi Infantry Regiment, 24th. Company C. (Dowd Rebels). 1
Confederate States of America. Mississippi Cavalry Regiment, 8th. Company E (Lowndes Co.). 1
Contracts -- Mississippi -- Oktibbeha County. 1
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Cotton trade -- United States -- History. 1
Cotton-picking machinery -- Photographs. 1
Cotton-picking machinery. 1
Courtship -- Mississippi -- History. 1
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Dockery (Miss.) 1
Education -- Mississippi -- Starkville. 1
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Fish and game licenses. 1
French Camp (Miss.) 1
Fur trade -- United States -- History. 1
Greenwood (Miss.) 1
Holmes County (Miss.) -- History. 1
Holmes County (Miss.) -- Social conditions. 1
Home demonstration work 1
Horses -- Diseases -- Treatment -- History. 1
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Mississippi -- Race relations. 1
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Mississippi State Bulldogs (Basketball team) 1
Mississippi politics and government -- 1951- 1
Mound Bayou (Miss.) 1
Mules -- Mississippi -- History. 1
Oktibbeha County (Miss.) 1
Packets -- Mississippi. 1
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Aberdeen Creamery (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority 1
Amberson, William Ruthrauff 1
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Ames, Albion 1
Ames, Madison Fisk 1
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Baskin, Rebecca Jane 1
Baskin, Robert N. 1
Baskin, Robert R. 1
Baskin, Sallie A. 1
Bruce, Blanche Kelso 1
Butts, Alfred Benjamin 1
Cable, Hattie Baskin 1
Campbell, Will D. 1
Carthan , Eddie J. 1
Confederate States of America. Army. Mississippi Infantry Regiment, 22nd 1
Cox, A. Eugene (Allen Eugene) 1
Cunningham, Lena B. (Lena Bardwell) 1
Delta Cooperative Farm Project (Hillhouse, Miss.) 1
Delta Cooperative Farm Project (Hillhouse, Miss.)--Photographs 1
Divine, Eva Baskin 1
Dockery family. 1
Dockery, Hughla Rice 1
Dockery, Joe Rice 1
Dockery, Thomas Covington 1
Dockery, William Alfred 1
Eastland, James O. (James Oliver) 1
Eddy, Sherwood 1
Farmers' Alliance (Miss.) 1
Fellowship of Southern Churchmen 1
Franklin, Sam H. 1
Griffin United Methodist Church (Starkville, Miss.) 1
Hogan family. 1
Hogan, Elijah 1
Jackson, Jesse 1
Joiner, Marcella Rose 1
King, Martin Luther, Jr. 1
Kirkpatrick, John Lycan 1
Knox, James 1
Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) 1
Ku Klux Klan (1915- ). Mississippi 1
Lampkin, Robert Allison 1
Martin, Dabney A. 1
Memphis (Tenn). Police Dept 1
Merchants and Farmers Bank (Vaiden, Miss.) 1
Minter, David R. 1
Minter, David R.--Photographs. 1
Mississippi AFL-CIO 1
Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission 1
Mitchell, H. L. (Harry Leland) 1
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America 1
Oak Grove Presbyterian Church (Franconia, Ala.) 1
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Presbytery of Tuscaloosa. 1
Presley , Elvis 1
Preston, Zenas 1
Providence Plantation (Miss.) 1
Rambo, Mary C. 1
Rust , John D. 1
S. Gumbel and Company (New Orleans, La.) 1
Socialist Party (U.S.) 1
Somerville, James 1
Sons of Temperance of North America 1
Southern Tenant Farmers' Union 1
St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company 1
Trulight Baptist Church (Dockery, Miss.) 1
United Methodist Church (U.S.). Board of Missions 1
United States. War Finance Division 1
W. C. Henderson High School (Starkville, Miss.) 1
Wallace, George C. (George Corley) 1
Ward Elementary School (Starkville, Miss.) 1
Ward, Ella Sayles Bardwell 1
Watkins, William B. 1
West Creamery (West, Miss.) 1
Wier, Robert K., 1886-1974 1
Wier, Sadye Hunter , 1905-1995 1
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