Coleman, J.P. (James Plemon), 1914-1991

Scope and Contents

Speeches, public statements, newspaper clippings, campaign advertisements, government documents, scrapbooks, oral history interviews, M.A. thesis and seminar paper concerning the public career of J.P. Coleman, Mississippi governor (1956-1960) and judge of U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.

This collection consists of gifts and copies from the following collections: Allen Eugene Cox, Wilson Minor, John C. Stennis, Kenneth Toler, and Mississippiana Vertical file.

Scope and Contents The collection is divided into 20 series, arranged both chronologically and by format type. The content concerns the advertising campaigns run by the Godwin Advertising Agency on behalf of the States’ Rights Democratic Party and a number of state and local politicians in Mississippi between 1948 and 1971, as well as a large group of photographs taken for the Agricultural and Industrial Board to promote the state between 1947 and 1955. The material gives insights into the role of advertising...