Civil Rights -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century.

Scope and Content note The Bowen Collection consists of some 270 cubic feet of files, documents, publications, photographs, and memorabilia. Much of the material reflects Bowen's interest and expertise in agricultural matters. He served on three House of Representatives subcommittees: Agriculture, Merchant Marine and Fisheries, and Foreign Affairs. In addition, he served on numerous subcommittees of these committees, chairing the Agriculture Subcommittee on Cotton, Rice, and Sugar, and participating on other...

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Broadsides, leaflets, circulars, publications, comics and other materials documenting Anti-Communism, anti-Semitism, anti-left-wing activities, segregationism, and the American Eugenics Party in the United States. Concerns the reaction to the modern civil rights movement in the United States from 1937 to 1969. Includes brochures, broadsides, and other materials from the American Eugenics Party, the Black Panthers, and other groups.

Scope and Contents Box 1 contains political materials from Conner’s personal campaigns and the state and national Democratic Party, including literature from the Democratic National Convention of 1972, a sample ballot for the 1980 election, maps and other information about Oktibbeha County election districts from 1968-1983, tickets to the 1984 National Convention, a program from the 1992 Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner (autographed inside by keynote speaker Hillary Clinton), and an invitation to the inauguration...

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45 poems and poem fragments written on butcher paper with pen and/or markers, on Civil Rights topics. Includes references to Vietnam War and other internationla events as well as Mississippi-specific activity.

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Materials collected by journalist Vernon Pace include audio recordings, phonograph records, books, pamphlets and articles representing conservative points of view.

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Fully legible copy of the typescript transcript of the second half of the trial for the murder of Emmitt Till. This material was collected by Bryan Maxwell Newman, who obtained the copy shortly after the trial concluded in 1955. Mr. Newman was employed near Greenwood, Mississippi where the trial took place.

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Research materials for Piper's M.A. thesis, "The Civil Rights Movement in Starkville, Mississippi: A Local Struggle for Equality, 1968-1973". Materials include audiotapes of the Civil Rights Forum, oral interviews and note cards.

Scope and Content Papers of Clayton Thomas Rand (1891-1971), author, columnist, speaker, and publisher of the Dixie Guide, Gulfport, Mississippi. Rand graduated from Mississippi A & M College in 1911, operated newspapers in Neshoba County and other parts of north Mississippi, and in the 1920's moved to the Mississippi Gulf Coast, where he resided until his death. Included are correspondence; manuscripts of speeches, books, pamphlets, and columns; financial records; clippings; printed material and...

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Tapes and transcripts of interviews with Charles Evers, Hodding Carter III, Flavous Hutchinson, Jan Lewis, John Crawford, Virginia Hooper and Douglas Conner. The interviews were conducted by Simpson as research for his PhD dissertation on the Loyalist Democratic Party of Mississippi.