African-Americans -- Mississippi -- Starkville.

Scope and Contents The Ella Bardwell Ward family papers include a funeral program, awards and certificates, publications and photographs primarily documenting the life and career of Ella Bardwell Ward (1901-1981). Genealogical and other materials document the Bardwell family including Lena Bardwell Cunningham and other family members. Griffin United Methodist Church materials include a published history (1971) which also includes notes about Bardwell family members, an announcement of a program commemorating...

Scope and Content The Robert and Sadye Wier Papers, 1885-1975, consist of business records, correspondence, family papers, oral history interviews, personal papers, photographs, scrapbooks, and other items related to the lives of the Wiers. Topics covered include race relations, the history of Starkville, the Starkville Second Baptist Church, Journeymen Barber's International Union of America, teaching in Starkville, and the Mississippi Cooperative Extension Service in Newton, Winston, and Lowndes...