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During the past two years, the Local Government Records Office has focused on the development of records retention schedules for counties and municipalities, and assisting local governments in developing records inventories of extant records.

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Timber Related Source Materials About Mississippi's Piney Woods: An Archival Survey Of The Mccain Library And Archives At The University Of Southern Mississippi, Reagan Grimsley

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Few natural resources impacted the lives of Mississippians to the degree which timber has. In particular, the southeastern and south central regions of the state received the label "piney woods" because the dominant features of the region consisted of longleaf, shortleaf, loblolly, and slash pines. Early Mississippians might have labeled other regions of the state according to the soil content, but the towering conifers which proliferated from the Gulf Coast northward to Jackson, and westward to near Natchez, seemed the main economic resource by which to label the area. The purpose of this article is to detail briefly why timber …

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The Vicksburg National Military Park Archives, Michael B. Ballard Jul 2015

The Vicksburg National Military Park Archives, Michael B. Ballard

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Report of working with archival collections at the Vicksburg National Military Park.

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Entire Issue Volume 21, Number 1 Jul 2015

Entire Issue Volume 21, Number 1

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Complete issue of Vol. 21, No. 1 of The Primary Source.

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Accessions: 1998-1999 Jul 2015

Accessions: 1998-1999

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New accessions during 1998 and 1999.

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Web In Progress Jul 2015

Web In Progress

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Websites relating to archival collections and archival societies.

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Spotlight On Mississippi Archives Jul 2015

Spotlight On Mississippi Archives

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Spotlight on the Henry T. Sampson Library Special Collection/Archives at Jackson State University.

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Here They Come Again! My Two "Archival Encounters" With Records Of The Mississippi Sovereignty Commission, Sandra Boyd Jul 2015

Here They Come Again! My Two "Archival Encounters" With Records Of The Mississippi Sovereignty Commission, Sandra Boyd

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Little did I realize in the 1960s and 1970s, when reports of the Sovereignty Commission activities were in the news, that I would be involved with the Commission records in two different institutions. The "encounters" have been different, representing two ends of the spectrum in archival work today, but they have been interesting and challenging.

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Processing The Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission Records, Sarah Rowe-Sims, David Pilcher Jul 2015

Processing The Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission Records, Sarah Rowe-Sims, David Pilcher

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In a state whose historical image is inextricably linked with racism, the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission is surely one of its most sinister manifestations. In existence from 1956 to 1977, this state agency spied on civil rights activists, acted as a clearing-house for information on civil rights legislation from around the nation, funneled money to prosegregation organizations, and disseminated right-wing propaganda. Ironically, although its loudest proponents championed themselves as on a crusade against the insidious "red menace," the Commission was the embodiment of "Big Brother." Approximately 132,000 pages of remaining agency records document the Commission's dubious quest. Included in these …

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State Sovereignty Commission Materials In The Paul B. Johnson Family Papers In The Archives Of The University Of Southern Mississippi, Bobs M. Tusa Jul 2015

State Sovereignty Commission Materials In The Paul B. Johnson Family Papers In The Archives Of The University Of Southern Mississippi, Bobs M. Tusa

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As Lieutenant Governor and Governor of the state, Paul B. Johnson received copies of regular reports prepared by the director of the Sovereignty Commission. These reports comprise nine boxes of the Paul B. Johnson Family Papers and cover the period from 1964 to 1968. The reports were clearly identified but scattered throughout the Johnson Family Papers in no order. There is much overlap between materials in the Sovereignty Commission series and those in the Highway Patrol series, since the two organizations worked together to monitor Civil Rights activities in the state from 1960 to 1968.

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Entire Issue Volume 20, Numbers 1-4 Jul 2015