Politics.
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 20 Collections and/or Records:
Clayton Rand Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-91
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...
Dates:
1918 - 1971
Found in:
Manuscripts
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Clayton Rand Papers
John Y. Simon Original Documents and Ephemera
Collection
Identifier: USGPL-JYS
Scope and Content Note
This collection contains documents and ephemera removed from the office and personal files of Ulysses S. Grant Association Executive Director Dr. John Y. Simon. These items include orginal documents signed by Presidents of the United States, political ephemera, and personal items related to Dr. Simon's father's service in World War I.
Dates:
1846 - 1952
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
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Frank E. Smith Collection
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
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Hazel Brannon Smith Papers
Boswell Stevens Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-132
Scope and Content
Correspondence, reports, clippings, scrapbooks, photographs, publications, and other records of Boswell Stevens (1896-1986), farmer of Noxubee County, Mississippi, and president of the Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation (1950-1972). Among the many organizations with which he was associated were the American Farm Bureau Federation, the National Cotton Council of America, the American Dairy Association of Mississippi, the Mississippi Federated Cooperatives, the Southern Farm Bureau insurance...
Dates:
1918 - 1986
Found in:
Manuscripts
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Boswell Stevens Papers
James Kenneth Toler Papers
Collection
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
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James Kenneth Toler Papers
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
Rufus Ward Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-73
Scope and Content
Personal and business correspondence, accounts, receipts, deeds, slave records, tax receipts, military orders, genealogical material and other papers of the James Sykes family of Columbus, Mississippi. Includes letters from cotton brokers in West Point, Mississippi, Mobile, Alabama, St. Louis, Missouri, and New Orleans, Louisiana; letters from Alleghany Springs and Blue Ridge Springs, Virginia, and White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia; letters from Wildie and Ida Sykes at Patapsco Female...
Dates:
1837 - 1920
Found in:
Manuscripts
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Rufus Ward Collection
R. E. Wilbourn Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-57
Scope and Content
Genealogical material of the Wilbourn, Scott, Eggleston families of Kemper, Noxubee, and Yalobusha Counties, Mississippi; diary and message book kept by Captain R.E. Wilbourn (1838-1875), Chief Signal Officer, 2nd Corps, Army of Northern Virginia; letter regarding wounding of General Stonewall Jackson (1863); scrapbook of a later period containing letters from Senators Stennis and Walthall and Representative Ross A. Collins; photographs; miscellaneous antebellum documents; personal...
Dates:
1833 - 1963
Found in:
Manuscripts
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R. E. Wilbourn Collection
Sam Wilhite papers
Collection
Identifier: CPRC-137
Scope and Content
The collection documents the activities of Sam Wilhite (1919-1998), who served as executive assistant to Mississippi Governor Hugh White in his second term (1952-1956) and was deeply involved in Democratic political work on the state, regional, and national levels during the late 1940s and 1950s. Among the candidates for whom he campaigned were Adlai Stevenson, John C. Stennis, and Hugh White. Wilhite also worked with the chambers of commerce in Florence, Alabama, and in West Point and...
Dates:
1871 - 1976; Majority of material found within 1940 - 1976
Found in:
Mississippi Political Collections
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Sam Wilhite papers