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Finding Aid For The Charles Henri Ford Collection (Mum01791) Nov 2020

Finding Aid For The Charles Henri Ford Collection (Mum01791)

Archives & Special Collections: Finding Aids (alphabetical)

Letters, photographs, postcards and transcripts from author Charles Henri Ford addressed to Robert Sharrard (and others) about different published work.


Finding Aid For The Hubert Creekmore Collection (Mum01790) Nov 2020

Finding Aid For The Hubert Creekmore Collection (Mum01790)

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Collection contains playbills, programs, and correspondence related to the life and work of author, artist, and editor Hubert Creekmore. Items were created 1928-2002.


Finding Aid For The Haley Barbour Collection (Mum01779) Nov 2020

Finding Aid For The Haley Barbour Collection (Mum01779)

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Haley Barbour served as chairman of the Republican National Committee from 1993 to 1997 and governor of Mississippi from 2004 to 2012.


Finding Aid For The Jerry Boone Collection (Mum01769) Nov 2020

Finding Aid For The Jerry Boone Collection (Mum01769)

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Records of Dr. Jerry Boone’s service from 1998 to 2004 as court-appointed monitor for the Ayers lawsuit on desegregation and disparate state funding of Mississippi’s higher education institutions.


Finding Aid For The Gordon A. Martin Jr. Collection (Mum01759) Nov 2020

Finding Aid For The Gordon A. Martin Jr. Collection (Mum01759)

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A U.S. Department of Justice attorney during the 1960s, Gordon A. Martin Jr. participated in civil rights and voter registration litigation in Mississippi. The collection contains court documents and exhibits from those cases, as well as digital audio recordings with excerpts of oral histories Martin conducted in 1989 with African American witnesses in those law suits.


Finding Aid For The State Documents Vertical Files (Mum01743) Nov 2020

Finding Aid For The State Documents Vertical Files (Mum01743)

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Miscellaneous publications and handouts produced by Mississippi government agencies.


Finding Aid For The J.P. Coleman Collection (Mum01734) Nov 2020

Finding Aid For The J.P. Coleman Collection (Mum01734)

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J.P. Coleman served as governor of Mississippi between 1956 and 1960. In 1965, the claimed a seat on the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, gaining the rank of chief judge in 1979. Coleman assumed senior status in 1981, lightening his case load. He retired from the bench in 1984 and died in 1991. This collection contains Coleman's judicial papers from his tenure on the Fifth Circuit.


Finding Aid For The Christopher Maurer Research Collection On Walter Anderson And Shearwater Pottery (Mum01720) Nov 2020

Finding Aid For The Christopher Maurer Research Collection On Walter Anderson And Shearwater Pottery (Mum01720)

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Collection of Maurer’s notes and photocopied primary source materials used in the research, writing, and publication of Fortune’s Favorite Child: The Uneasy Life of Walter Anderson and Dreaming in Clay on the Coast of Mississippi: Love and Art at Shearwater.


Finding Aid For The Armis Hawkins Collection (Mum01718) Nov 2020

Finding Aid For The Armis Hawkins Collection (Mum01718)

Archives & Special Collections: Finding Aids (alphabetical)

Armis E. Hawkins won election to the Mississippi Supreme Court in 1980 and served as Chief Justice from 1993 until his retirement in 1995. The collection consists of material related to his tenure on the court.


Finding Aid For The Civil Rights Commemoration Initiative Collection (Mum01696) Nov 2020

Finding Aid For The Civil Rights Commemoration Initiative Collection (Mum01696)

Archives & Special Collections: Finding Aids (alphabetical)

Collection of flyers, notes, correspondence, newspaper articles, and plans for the Civil Rights Monument on the campus of the University of Mississippi.


Finding Aid For The L.Q.C. Lamar Collection (Mum01174) Nov 2020

Finding Aid For The L.Q.C. Lamar Collection (Mum01174)

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Correspondence, primarily from Lamar to Edward Donaldson Clark, discussing politics, the Vicksburg Race Riots, Reconstruction, General E.C. Walthall, legislative issues and Blanche K. Bruce.


Finding Aid For The Young Lawyers Of The Mississippi State Bar Collection (Mum00753) Nov 2020

Finding Aid For The Young Lawyers Of The Mississippi State Bar Collection (Mum00753)

Archives & Special Collections: Finding Aids (alphabetical)

The Young Lawyers of the Mississippi State Bar Collection contains the records of officers in the organization between 1969 and 1982.


Finding Aid For The W. Ray Cleere Collection (Mum00750) Nov 2020

Finding Aid For The W. Ray Cleere Collection (Mum00750)

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W. Ray Cleere served as Mississippi’s first commissioner of higher education (1987-1995). His collection contains his personal files related to the Ayers case that alleged discriminatory funding practices on the part of the state between historically white and black colleges and universities.


Finding Aid For The Shelley Fraser Mickle Collection (Mum00741) Nov 2020

Finding Aid For The Shelley Fraser Mickle Collection (Mum00741)

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Finding Aid For The Claude F. Clayton Collection (Mum00738) Nov 2020

Finding Aid For The Claude F. Clayton Collection (Mum00738)

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Claude F. Clayton served as a judge in the U.S. District Court of Northern Mississippi (1958-67) and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (1967-69). His collection contains judicial files from his tenure on both courts. It also includes records from two unsuccessful campaigns for U.S. Congress in 1946 and 1948 and papers from his thirty-plus years of service in the Mississippi National Guard where he retired as major general and commander of the 31st Infantry Division.


Finding Aid For The Franklin E. Moak Collection (Mum00721) Nov 2020

Finding Aid For The Franklin E. Moak Collection (Mum00721)

Archives & Special Collections: Finding Aids (alphabetical)

Documents related to Frank Moak, the University of Mississippi, and the Oxford Rotary Club.


Finding Aid For The Reverend Wofford K. Smith Collection (Mum00614) Nov 2020

Finding Aid For The Reverend Wofford K. Smith Collection (Mum00614)

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Correspondence, ephemera and publications relating to the 1962-1964 activities of the University of Mississippi's Episcopal Chaplain, Wofford Smith.


Finding Aid For The Sanford C. Gladden Collection (Mum00560) Nov 2020

Finding Aid For The Sanford C. Gladden Collection (Mum00560)

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Materials related to Sanford Gladden, UM Professor Department of Physics and Astronomy. Includes correspondence, official reports and historical studies authored by Gladden and miscellaneous materials related to Gladden's life and work.


Finding Aid For The Commencement Collection (Mum00543) Nov 2020

Finding Aid For The Commencement Collection (Mum00543)

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Collection contains programs, invitations, articles, and speeches related to commencements of the University of Mississippi 1854-2004. Digital collection link to the 2016 commencement ceremony.


Finding Aid For The Joan Williams Collection (Mum00479) Nov 2020

Finding Aid For The Joan Williams Collection (Mum00479)

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Collection contains items related to the life of Joan Williams. Items were created 1979-1996.


Finding Aid For The Western Union Telegram Collection (Mum00472) Nov 2020

Finding Aid For The Western Union Telegram Collection (Mum00472)

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Collection contains correspondence, mainly telegrams, dated 1962 and related to the University of Mississippi and James Meredith.


Finding Aid For The James W. Silver Collection (Mum00410) Nov 2020

Finding Aid For The James W. Silver Collection (Mum00410)

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The collection contains correspondence, manuscripts, speeches, audio, and printed material produced and collected by James Wesley Silver. Silver was a professor of history at The University of Mississippi from 1936 to 1964 and author of Mississippi: The Closed Society.


Finding Aid For The The Progressive Farmer Collection (Mum00375) Nov 2020

Finding Aid For The The Progressive Farmer Collection (Mum00375)

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The collection chiefly contains works of fiction and nonfiction that have been published in The Progressive Farmer, a magazine about farming and agricultural issues. Also included are correspondence and miscellaneous other items.


Finding Aid For The Sterling Plumpp Collection (Mum00368) Nov 2020

Finding Aid For The Sterling Plumpp Collection (Mum00368)

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Collection contains typed and handwritten manuscripts, poems, notebooks, prose and reviews, galleys, correspondence, journals and magazines, and several cataloged books related to the life and work of Sterling Plumpp. Items were created 1962-1986.


Finding Aid For The The Oxford American Collection (Mum00347) Nov 2020

Finding Aid For The The Oxford American Collection (Mum00347)

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Manuscripts & production materials related to The Oxford American magazine, a prominent literary journal.


Finding Aid For The Pauline Wright Nichols Collection (Mum00336) Nov 2020

Finding Aid For The Pauline Wright Nichols Collection (Mum00336)

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Pauline Wright Nichols (1889-1983) was born in Oxford, Mississippi and became a successful artist and art professor. The collection contains manuscripts and editorial notes for her book The Breath of God: Black Voices from the Thirties.


Finding Aid For The James Howard Meredith Collection (Mum00293) Nov 2020

Finding Aid For The James Howard Meredith Collection (Mum00293)

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Materials documenting the family, educational, and professional life of James Meredith, the first African American to attend the University of Mississippi. Includes a variety of materials relating to Meredith's enrollment process at Ole Miss and his time as a student there, as well as materials from his military service, family, later civil rights activities, and professional endeavors.


Finding Aid For The W.T. Marshall Collection (Mum00285) Nov 2020

Finding Aid For The W.T. Marshall Collection (Mum00285)

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Correspondence, illustrations, artifacts, publications, and other documents related to Presidents of the United States from 1899 to 1938.


Finding Aid For The League Of Women Voters Of Mississippi Collection (Mum00261) Nov 2020

Finding Aid For The League Of Women Voters Of Mississippi Collection (Mum00261)

Archives & Special Collections: Finding Aids (alphabetical)

The League of Women Voters of Mississippi Collection contains the official records for the Mississippi division of this national, nonpartisan organization which encourages citizens to actively participate in government. Files contain correspondence, minutes, reports, publications, public relations, budget & financial information, membership directories, yearbooks, subject files, candidate questionnaires, scrapbooks, photographs, and recordings.


Finding Aid For The Knox Collection Of Extremist Literature (Mum00253) Nov 2020

Finding Aid For The Knox Collection Of Extremist Literature (Mum00253)

Archives & Special Collections: Finding Aids (alphabetical)

The collection contains various publications issued by right-wing political and religious organizations. Also included is a small amount of material created by leftwing religious and philosophical organizations.