Politics and Government (Archives): Manuscripts - 20th century

Thomas G. Abernethy Collection.  Thomas G. Abernethy represented Mississippi in the U.S. House of Representatives between 1943 and 1973, where he served on the Committee on Agriculture, the Committee on Education & Labor, and the District of Columbia Committee.  The Abernethy Collection contains files on military service academy appointments, patronage appointments, constituent case work, constituent requests, invitations, legislative files, committee files, subject files, political & campaign files, and public relations files.  444 boxes. Patrons should provide notice at least two business days prior to prospective visits so that staff may transfer requested boxes from the Library Annex (an off-site facility) to the Special Collection Reading Room. Please contact Special Collections at (662) 915-7408 to specify requested material.  Photographs and a recording are available online as a digital collection.

Academic Program Reviews Collection. This collection consists of academic program reviews conducted in 1981-1983 at the University of Mississippi and includes reviews of the departments of Public Administration and Political Science.  15 boxes.

Aldrich Collection.  Includes a January 1949 letter from U.S. Senator John C. Stennis to Ransom Aldrich (Box 25, Folder 10) (25 boxes).  Part of the collection is available as a digital collection.

"Private" John Allen Publication.  John Allen represented Mississippi in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1885 to 1901.  In this four-page publication from 1911 entitled "Private John" Allen Writes Open Letter to James K. Vardaman, Allen voices his opposition to the former governor's candidacy for the U.S. Senate.  Location: Small Manuscripts 98-1 (1 folder).

American Association of University Professors (AAUP) Collection.  Among the records of the University of Mississippi branch of the AAUP is a 1962 Southern Political Science Association Resolution on Academic Freedom (Box 3, Folder 9).  7 boxes.

American Association of University Women (AAUW) Collection.  The records of the AAUW include both the Mississippi Division and local branches within the state. The organization sponsors a Legislative Day and also promotes awareness of social issues and legislative programs.  Material dates from 1906 to 2004, but the group continues to donate additional material to their archives.  126 boxes & Collection Photographs Box 19 Folders 130-139.

American Family Association Collection. The American Family Association Collection primarily contains publications and circular letters from the late twentieth-century and early twenty-first by the conservative Christian lobbying organization based in Tupelo, Mississippi and founded by Donald Wildmon.  2 boxes.

Artifacts (UM) Collection.  Includes a box of yellow [Barry] Goldwater ribbons.  4 boxes.

Reverend N.G. Augustus Collection.  Included in this miscellaneous collection of papers is a small set of 1934 correspondence by A.R. Taylor in Memphis, Tennessee on the bibliographic history of Herndon's Life of Lincoln (Folder 7).  Location: Small Manuscripts 76-1 (19 folders).

Jeff Balfour Collection.  Includes a 1998 newsletter of U.S. Representative Gene Taylor, Neshoba County Fair program from 1987, poll tax receipts and voting cards dating from 1949 to 1966.  Also holds negatives of Mississippi River Corps of Engineers dated 1953.  4 boxes.

Ross Barnett Bumper Sticker. In neon red letters on black background, this undated bumper sticker reads "Barnett for Governor."  Location: Oversized Small Manuscripts Ephemera (1 folder).

Governor Ross Barnett Statement.  In this typed document entitled "Statement of the Honorable Ross R. Barnett, Governor of the State of Mississippi, before the Governor's Conference on the National Guard, January 4, 1963, in Washington, D.C.," Barnett protests a proposed cut in National Guard forces.  Location: Small Manuscripts 2001-2 (1 folder).

Marge Baroni Collection.  A white Catholic from Natchez, Mississippi, Marge Baroni was a civil rights activist.  Baroni also participated in the 1965 formation of the Adams-Jefferson Improvement Corporation, a community action group created to conform to Title II of the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964.  Its initiatives included Head Start, adult literacy and job placement programs, and a credit union.  In 1969, Baroni began a ten-year working relationship with Charles Evers, elected that year as the first black mayor of a biracial Mississippi town (Fayette) since Reconstruction.  The collection includes correspondence from 1955 through 1985 on topics such as Natchez city government, Mississippi politics, community action programs like Headstart, voting registration, and a request for Justice Department observation of Klan activity.  It also contains 1976 minutes from the Natchez Board of Alderman meetings, records of the Adams-Jefferson Improvement Corporation, and documents related to Charles Evers.  21 boxes.

Russell H. Barrett Collection.  A professor of political science, Russell H. Barrett joined the faculty of the University of Mississippi in 1954 and remained until 1976.  The author of the 1965 book Integration at Ole Miss, Barrett's papers consist primarily of material related to the 1962 integration at the University of Mississippi and race relations at that institution.  In addition, it contains a folder of research on voter registration ( Box 6, Folder 9), a photograph of Robert F. Kennedy receiving an award from University of Mississippi students (CPB17F21), a photograph of Governor Ross Barnett in the stands at a university football game (CPB17F38), & several files on Australian politics (scattered in Boxes 9, 10, & 17) (21 boxes & Collection Photographs Box 17, Folders1-46).  21 boxes.  Photographs from this collection have been digitized as part of the Integration of the University of Mississippi digital collection.

Lionel Baxter Collection.  The Lionel Baxter Collection consists of books, prints, and manuscripts about American history, and the Civil War in particular, amassed by the donor.  Box 1 includes a 1908 letter from U.S. Representative John Sharp Williams regarding the election of William Howard Taft.  Box 2 contains correspondence Baxter conducted during the 1970s and 1980s with several national and state politicians on a variety of topics, including food stamps, the United Nations, foreign policy, taxation, the U.S. Navy, Prisoner of War legislation, and school desegregation as well as legislation that affected the cable television industry (Baxter was Vice President of Washington Affairs for Storer Broadcasting Company).  Box 4 contains a certificate honoring Hermann Baxter from President Franklin D. Roosevelt and another certificate signed by President Ronald Reagan.  The collection also includes engraved portrait prints of politicians, as well as the Bureau of Printing & Engraving Series on the Presidents, Chief Justices, and Government Buildings.  9 boxes.

Beckwith/Yerger Collection.  The Beckwith/Yerger Collection includes material related to Louis M. Southworth.  Born in Carrollton, Mississippi, Southworth served in both chambers of the Mississippi legislature during the 1880s.  In 1890, he moved to the Philippine Islands where he practiced law and eventually received an appointment as Judge of the First Court.  The Beckwith/Yerger Collection contains correspondence from Southworth to his brother-in-law L.P. Yerger in Greenwood, Mississippi that dates from 1908 through his death in 1920, as well as correspondence and records related to Southworth's estate (Boxes 5 & 6).  7 boxes.

Blanton-Smith Collection.  This collection contains the personal correspondence (and transcripts) of Dr. Orville Martin Blanton and his wife Martha Rebecca Smith Blanton from Greenville, Mississippi.  It includes a 1908 letter from Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan to Dr. Blanton on their shared youth as well as Harlan's family and career.  2 boxes & 2 binders.

A.L. Bondurant Collection.  The Bondurant Collection contains a 1935 letter from U.S. Senator Pat Harrison regarding the Natchez Trace project (Folder 32); a 1937 letter from Lamar Hardy, U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of New York (Folder 39); and a 1933 letter from Louis Johnson, National Commander of the American Legion regarding official recognition of the Soviet Union by the United States (Folder 44).  Location: Small Manuscripts 76-1 (21 folders).

Jerry Boone Collection.  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 higher education institutions.  5 boxes.

Peter J. Boyer Article.  Peter J. Boyer's article "The Yuppies of Mississippi: How They Took over the Statehouse" on the administration of Governor Ray Maybus appeared in the 28 February 1988 issue of the New York Times Magazine.  Location: Oversized Small Manuscripts (1 folder).

Business School Collection.  This collection contains papers and publications written under the auspices of the University of Mississippi Business School from the 1930s through the 1980s.  Several topics examine matters of state, county, and municipal governments in Mississippi.  6 boxes.

Roane Fleming Byrnes Collection.  Roane Fleming Byrnes was president of the Natchez Trace Association for over twenty-five years.  At least half of the material in the collection dates from 1934 to 1970 and relates the Natchez Trace Parkway which runs through Tennessee, Alabama, and Mississippi.  Box 36 contains letters from Theodore G. Bilbo as well as Carroll Gartin campaign material.  46 boxes and Collection Photographs Box 2 Folders 1-75 and Collection Photographs Box 14 -- Box 16.

Robert Canzoneri Collection.  The papers of Mississippi author Robert Canzoneri include a draft for an article entitled "The Goldwater Acceptance Speech: A Close Look" as well as drafts and notes for his 1965 memoir I Do So Politely: A Voice from the South which includes discussions of his kinsman Mississippi Governor Ross Barnett.  10 boxes.

Cassette Tapes & Reels Collection.  This collection includes a miscellaneous array of recordings, including a broadcast of Governor Ross Barnett discussing the 1962 riot at the University of Mississippi on WSLI/WHNY; 1976 oral interviews with Political Science Professor Russell H. Barrett; a 1977 Jackson, Mississippi radio memorial program for Fannie Lou Hamer; nineteen cassette tapes of NAACP events, including a 1984 Public Mass Meeting with Aaron Henry; and three reels covering Vice President Hubert Humphrey's 1968 visit to the University of Mississippi.  9 boxes.  Contact Special Collections in advance of visit due to access issues caused by the format.

Chancellors' Collection: Porter L. Fortune.  Chancellor of the University of Mississippi from 1968 to 1984, Porter L. Fortune's papers include files on the following subjects: Bureau of Government Research, Office of Governor 1977-83, Political Science 1973-77, Board of Trustees, Constitution Day Observance, Commission on the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution, Justice William G. Roberts, William M. Whittington, Bureau of Public Administration 1945-55, Department of Research in Business & Government 1955-63, School of Business & Government 1955-65, U.S. Forestry 1955-, Office of Governor 1976-1983, Small Business Center/Mississippi Legislature 1979, State Department of Highway, Governor's Conference on Education 1973-1974, College Board 1973, State Department of Education 1971-77, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Institute of Health, Mississippi Department of Natural Resources, Mississippi State Senator William B. Alexander, Public Officials Day, Larry Speakes, John C. Stennis, State Department of Education, State Building Commission, State Department of Auditing, 1982 Legislative Reception, Trent Lott Papers 1979, Political Science, Intergovernmental Advisory Council on Education, Legislative Contact Committee, Center for the Study of the Presidency, Thad Cochran Congressional Papers, Commission on the Status of Women, State Building Commission, Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterways Artifacts, Tennessee Valley Authority Fiftieth Anniversary, Appeal of U.S. Postal Service Committee, Legislative Day Committee, and the National Science Foundation. Box 123 contains a file of Personal VIP Correspondence which contains letters from John Brademan, Gerald Ford, J. Edgar Hoover, David Mathews, Carl Albert, John Glenn, William F. Winter, Larry Speakes, Jamie Whitten, J.P. Coleman, General Bernard W. Rogers, Evelyn Gandy, Thad Cochran, Walter Mondale, Jacob V. Javits, Edward P. Beard, Robert Taft Jr., Patsy K. Mink, Cliff Finch, Carl D. Perkins, and Edward M. Kennedy.  208 boxes.

Chancellors' Collection: Robert Burwell Fulton.  Chancellor of the University of Mississippi from 1892 to 1906, Robert Burwell Fulton's papers include files on the following subjects: Department of Public Education; Treasury Department; Board of Trustees; Naval Reserve Lands; correspondence with the Alabama State Geologist Eugene A. Smith; and correspondence with U.S. Court of Claims Judge Charles B. Howry concerning Mississippi Governor James K. Vardaman; & other material related to Vardaman.  In 1904, the university surveyed its alumni for an historical catalogue, and the form included a request for information on elective or appointed public positions.  These files contain the records of numerous mayors, city & county attorneys, presidential electors, commission & board members, judges, Mississippi legislators, and other public officials.  Significant individuals include: John M. Allen (U.S. Representative from Mississippi 1885-1901); Laurence Newton Buford (Deputy Auditor of U.S. Treasury in Washington, DC 1886-1889); Ezekiel Samuel Candler Jr. (U.S. Representative from Mississippi 1901-1921); Thomas C. Catchings (Mississippi Attorney General 1877-85, U.S. House of Representatives 1885-1901); Presley Kithridge Ewing (Mississippi Supreme Court); Wilson Hemingway (Arkansas Supreme Court 1889-93); Samuel M. Howry (Internal Revenue Collector 1879, U.S. Marshal 1880-85, Special General Land Officer for Louisiana & Mississippi); Monroe McClurg (Mississippi Attorney General 1900-03); Frank Alexander McLain (U.S. Representative from Mississippi 1898-1901, State Supreme Court Commissioner 1910-12); Thomas Sheldon Maxey (U.S. District Court Judge of Western Texas 1888-1916); Robert Burns Mayes (Special Agent for U.S. Treasury Department); Henry Lowndes Muldrow (U.S. Representative from Mississippi 1877-85); John Henry Rogers (U.S. Representative from Arkansas 1883-91, U.S. District Court Judge of Western Arkansas 1896-1911); and Leroy Branch Valliant (Missouri Supreme Court).  24 boxes.

Chancellors' Collection: J.D. Williams.  Chancellor of the University of Mississippi from 1946 to 1968, J.D. Williams' papers include files on Williams' 1964 White House visit, his European trip for the Defense Department in 1955, a 1957 Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission "Report to the People," U.S. Civilian Service Medal, Board of Trustees, State Technical Services Training Act of 1965, Special Committee to Study the Vocational Education Act of 1963, Special Committee on Post Office Building, Special Committee on the Development of a Program in Governmental Science, Special Committee on Legislative Contact, Special Committee Regarding the Location of Civil Defense Radiological Inspection Munitions Calibration Unit, as well as a thank you from Jacqueline Kennedy for his condolence letter, letters related to Williams' activities with the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (Memphis branch), and letters regarding the Tenth Civil Service Regional Loyalty Board for which Williams adjudicated employee loyalty cases until it was disbanded in 1953.  36 boxes.

Chancellors Biographical Collection.  Among the miscellaneous documents related to various University of Mississippi Chancellors in this collection is a 1956 speech by Chancellor J.D. Williams before the state legislature as well as correspondence by Williams to several state legislators.  3 boxes.

Christmas Light Petition.  Dated 14 December 1986, this original petition from the members of South Oxford Congregational Methodist Church of Oxford, Mississippi protests the actions of the American Civil Liberties Union and U.S. District Judge William H. Barbour Jr. in discontinuing the lighting of offices in the Walter Sillers State Office Building to form a lighted cross during the Christmas Season.  Location: Small Manuscripts 93-1 (1 folder).

Citizens' Council Collection. Among the publications produced by the segregationist Citizens' Councils are speeches and statements by politicians like Ross Barnett, John Bell Williams, James O. Eastland, and George Wallace as well as a broadside entitled "Negro Senators from Mississippi." Several of the group's publications focus on a segregationist legislative agenda and complaints about the judicial tyranny of the Supreme Court.  3 boxes. Available as a digital collection.

Civil War Centennial Collection.  The contents of this collection include publications by the federal and state commissions arranging the anniversary commemorations of the Civil War.  1 box.

Civilian Conservation Corps Reports.  This collection contains photocopies of official reports and material related to the Oxford, Mississippi Camp of the Civilian Conservation Corps dating from 1934-1935.  Location: Small Manuscripts 79-3 (1 folder).

Claude F. Clayton Collection.  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).  The collection contains judicial files from his tenure on both courts.  It also includes records from his two unsuccessful campaigns for U.S. Congress against incumbent Representative John Rankin in 1946 and 1948.  44 boxes.  Patrons should provide notice at least two business days prior to prospective visits so that staff may transfer requested boxes from the Library Annex (an off-site facility) to the Special Collection Reading Room. Please contact Special Collections at (662) 915-7408 to specify requested material.  Photographs from the collection are available online in the Claude F. Clayton digital collection. 

Bill Clinton Presidential Inaugural Program.  This official program for the presidential inauguration dates from 1993.  Location: Small Manuscripts 97-1 (1 folder).

Louis Cochran Collection.  While living in the Mississippi capital during the Great Depression, Louis Cochran wrote a series of articles on Theodore G. Bilbo, Huey Long, Pat Harrison, and other politicians.  In 1935, he became an agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, working in DC, Kansas City, St. Louis, and Los Angeles.  During World War II, Cochran served in the intelligence sections of first the Army Air Corps and later the Air Force.  In the midst of his various careers, Cochran also produced a number of novels, and in 1966 he published his memoir FBI Man: A Personal History.  The collection contains Cochran's correspondence between 1931-1932 and 1962-1965 which primarily focus on William Faulkner, although several letters also discuss Bilbo and fellow FBI agent Drane Lester. 

David Cohn Collection.  Born in Greenville, Mississippi, David Cohn (1897-1960) studied under former President William H. Taft while at Yale University and subsequently wrote several popular works of non-fiction, including the 1956 book The Fabulous Democrats (which Eisenhower Republicans claimed was propaganda for Adlai Stevenson's campaign).  The collection includes correspondence with Clare Booth Luce (Box 3, Folder 13), Lyndon B. Johnson, George McGovern, J. William Fulbright (all in Box 5, Folder 2), Sam Rayburn (Box 5, Folder 4), and Adlai Stevenson (Box 5, Folder 15) as well as speeches by Rayburn, Fulbright, and Stevenson (Box 6, Folders 7 & 9); clippings on political topics and The Fabulous Democrats; and Cohn's articles on political topics that include Clare Booth Luce, Sam Rayburn, Lister Hill, and Herbert Hoover.  25 boxes.

J.P. Coleman Collection.  A former governor of Mississippi (1956-60), J.P. Coleman served on the bench of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit from 1965 to 1984.  The collection holds his judicial files.  79 boxes.  Patrons should provide notice at least two business days prior to prospective visits so that staff may transfer requested boxes from the Library Annex (an off-site facility) to the Special Collection Reading Room. Please contact Special Collections at (662) 915-7408 to specify requested material.

J.P. Coleman Letters.  This collection consists of one postcard dated 1931 and a letter from J.P. Coleman.  Location: Small Manuscripts 77-1 (1 folder).

Ross A. Collins Collection. A Democrat, Collins was Mississippi's Attorney General from 1912-1920. He represented the state in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1921 to 1935 and again from 1937 to 1943. While in Congress, Collins chaired the House Military Appropriations Subcommittee. The collection consists of correspondence related to the Library of Congress purchase of an incunabula collection as well as a scrapbook with inscribed photographs from noted individuals. Location: Library Annex (2 boxes). Patrons should provide notice at least two business days prior to prospective visits so that staff may transfer requested boxes from the Library Annex (an off-site facility) to the Special Collection Reading Room. Please contact Special Collections at (662) 915-7408 to specify requested material.

Council on Human Relations (Oxford) Collection.  This small collection contains records of the local Oxford, Mississippi chapter of the Council on Human Relations circa 1968. Included among the material is a brief typed memorandum titled "OVO, Oxford Voters Organization."  Location: Small Manuscripts 89-1 (1 folder). This collection has been digitized as part of the Civil Rights Archive digital collection.

Colin Crawford Collection.  This collection consists of research material gathered by Colin Crawford for his 1996 book Uproar at Dancing Rabbit Creek which examines efforts to place a hazardous waste facility in rural Noxubee County, Mississippi.  Both state and federal involvement in this environmental issue are documented.  12 boxes.

H.V. Cooper Collection.  1931-1966.  H.V. Cooper worked as Superintendent of Schools in Vicksburg, Mississippi from 1932 until his retirement in 1960.  He then worked as a guidance counselor at All Saint's College in Vicksburg and directed summer extension programs at Mississippi State University.  Cooper served in the Mississippi Senate from 1960 to 1963 where he helped to enact a significant salary increase for K-12 teachers in March 1960 and also chaired an education study committee which issued a 1961 comprehensive report on the state's education system from kindergarten through higher education.  2 boxes.

Crosby/Gammill Collection. The Lynn Gammill Collection includes 1995 correspondence and material related to the Congressional Archive Project at the University of Mississippi (Box 6, Folders 12 & 13). Finding aid available in Special Collections (40 boxes).

Jefferson Davis Broadside.  Robert P. McHugh, editor of the Gulfport-Biloxi Daily Herald, is the author of this broadside entitled "Jefferson Davis: An American Patriot," which requests the addition of Jefferson Davis' name to the National Hall of Fame roster.  James O. Eastland presented the text in the Senate on 9 June 1971.  Location: Oversized Small Manuscripts 95-7 (1 tube).

Charles Dean Collection.  The papers of this Holly Springs, Mississippi family include Charles Dean's political correspondence from 1977 through the 1980s regarding Thad Cochran, Trent Lott, and the Republican Party (Box 8, Folder 55; Box 9 Folders 7-11).  Box 20 contains documents related to Charles Dean's honorary appointment as "Colonel" to the gubernatorial staff in 1960, 1964, and 1972. Finding aid available in Special Collections.  32 boxes.

Diploma & Certificate Collection.  Among the items in the Diploma & Certificate Collection is T.K. Boggan's 1905 certificate of appointment to the Sixth Congressional District's Textbook Commission.  2 boxes.

John G. Douglas Collection.  The collection contains a 1916 letter by a young John G. Douglas requesting Theodore Roosevelt's autograph. The former president signed and returned the letter to Douglas (Box 1, Folder 1).  3 boxes.

William Doyle Collection.  Contains research materials gathered by William Doyle for his book An American Insurrection: James Meredith and the Battle of Oxford, Mississippi, 1962 (2001).  Among the items are a tape recording and transcript of conversations between President John F. Kennedy and Governor Ross Barnett regarding the integration of the University of Mississippi as well as other files on local and state officials responding to the crisis.  9 boxes.  

Donna Bailey Dye/Charles Noyes Collection.  1963-2011.  Correspondence, news clippings, and ephemera from Dr. Charles E. Noyes, UM professor of English, to his former student Donna Bess Bailey Dye and her husband Brad Dye (Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi 1980-1992).  1 box.

James O. Eastland Collection.  1930-1978.   A Democrat, James O. Eastland represented Mississippi in the U.S. Senate for a few months in 1941 and then from 1943 to 1978.  He chaired the Judiciary Committee from 1956 until his retirement.  The collection consists of congressional and personal papers (1,800 linear feet).  The photographs are available in the James O. Eastland Collection Photographs digital collection. The James O. Eastland digital collection consists of recordings, a scrapbook, and White House correspondence.  Patrons should provide notice at least two business days prior to prospective visits so that staff may transfer requested boxes from the Library Annex (an off-site facility) to the Special Collection Reading Room. Please contact Special Collections at (662) 915-7408 to specify requested material.

Thomas R. Etheridge Letters.  1942-1945.  World War II letters sent by Thomas R. Etheridge to family members.  Etheridge later served as a Mississippi state senator from 1948 to 1954 and U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Mississippi from 1954 to 1961.  1 box.

Farm Security Administration Photographs.  1935-1945.  During the Great Depression, the Farm Security Administration hired photographers to document poverty in American rural communities.  This collection contains images shot across Mississippi.  2 boxes.  Patrons should provide notice at least two business days prior to prospective visits so that staff may transfer requested boxes from the Library Annex (an off-site facility) to the Special Collection Reading Room. Please contact Special Collections at (662) 915-7408 to specify requested material. 

Faulkner Postmaster Letters.  The Faulkner Postmaster Letters contains correspondence dating from 1922-24 related to William Faulkner's employment as the University of Mississippi postmaster. 1 box.

James Nathaniel Flowers Program.  The program for "Unveiling of Portrait Honoring James Nathaniel Flowers" in the County Courthouse of Jackson, Mississippi dates from 1965.  A respected Jackson lawyer and former president of the Mississippi Bar Association, Flowers also served as Assistant Attorney General in the state from 1903 to 1906.  Location: Small Manuscripts 94-2 (1 folder).

Food Stamp Crisis.  This original copy of a Mississippi Hunger Coalition broadside and petition protests President Gerald Ford's intent to cut Food Stamp recipients by one-half.  Location: Small Manuscripts 94-2 (1 folder).

Tim Ford Collection.  Tim Ford, a Democrat, represented District 18 (Lee, Prentiss, and Pontotoc Counties) in the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1980 to 2004.  He served four terms as Speaker of the House beginning in 1988 until his retirement from the legislature. The collection consists of Ford's correspondence during the years 1987 through 1996.  4 boxes.  Patrons should provide notice at least two business days prior to prospective visits so that staff may transfer requested boxes from the Library Annex (an off-site facility) to the Special Collection Reading Room. Please contact Special Collections at (662) 915-7408 to specify requested material.

Percy E. Foxworth Collection.  Percy E. Foxworth served in the Federal Bureau of Investigation from 1932 until his death in the line of duty in 1943.  He was an Administrative Assistant to FBI director J. Edgar Hoover from 1935 to 1939 when he became Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Division and later Assistant Director in charge of the FBI's New York City Field Office.  The collection consists of correspondence (including letters from Hoover), photographs, and a commemorative book that outlines Foxworth's career.  4 boxes.

Percy E. Foxworth/Chambers/Roberts Collection.  Dating from the 1930s through the 1980s, this collection contains material related to FBI agent Percy E. Foxworth, including correspondence with J. Edgar Hoover and documents related to the FBI and the U.S. Navy.  9 boxes & Collection Photographs Box 38 Folders 27-29.

Carroll Gartin Collection. A Democrat, Gartin held the office of Mississippi Lieutenant Governor three times -- under Governor Hugh White from 1953 to 1956, under Governor J.P. Coleman from 1956 to 1960, and under Governor Paul B. Johnson Jr. from 1964 until Gartin's death in 1966. Gartin lost an election to James O. Eastland for the U.S. Senate in 1953 as well as a gubernatorial race against Ross Barnett in 1959 Location: Library Annex (68 boxes) & Collection Photographs. Patrons should provide notice at least two business days prior to prospective visits so that staff may transfer requested boxes from the Library Annex (an off-site facility) to the Special Collection Reading Room. Please contact Special Collections at (662) 915-7408 to specify requested material.  Photographs and recordings from the collection have been digitized and are available online.

Gettysburg Invitation.  This 1973 invitation from Mississippi Governor William L. Waller and the Gettysburg Memorial Commission is for the dedication of the Mississippi Confederate Monument at Gettysburg National Military Park.  Location: Small Manuscripts 94-2 (1 folder).

Barry Goldwater Publication.  The Republican National Committee printed this newsprint campaign literature entitled "Meet Barry Goldwater" for Goldwater's 1964 presidential campaign.  Location: Oversized Small Manuscripts 78-1 (1 folder).

Governor's Day Review Program.  The 27 July 1968 program for Mississippi's Camp Shelby Governor's Day Review features Alabama Governor Albert P. Brewer on the cover and inside.  Location: Small Manuscripts 94-1 (1 folder).

Graduating Senior Theses Collection.  Dating from 1858 to 1938, the topics of the student papers in the University of Mississippi Senior Theses Collection include suffrage, law, the judiciary & the legal system, public policy, & other topics related to politics and government.  8 boxes.

Dr. John T. Grantham Collection.  The Dr. John T. Grantham Collection contains a file of correspondence and material related to Lieutenant Governor Sam Lumpkin's unsuccessful 1951 campaign to become Mississippi's next governor (Box 1, Folder 18) as well as other documents dating from the 1930s related to Governor Mike Connor (Box 1, Folder 17).  2 boxes.

A. Wigfall Green Collection.  Papers in the A. Wigfall Green Collection date from 1928 to 1964 and contain correspondence and questionnaires used by Green in his 1963 biography of Theodore G. Bilbo entitled The Man Bilbo (Folders 4 & 7) as well as a program for the 1954 unveiling of the Bilbo statue in the state capitol building (Folder 6).  Location: Small Manuscripts 76-3 (8 folders).

Carolyn Haines Collection.  In the 1970s, author Carolyn Haines worked as a photographer for publications that included the Mobile Press Register, Mississippi Press, Hattiesburg American, and George County Times.  The collection contains six binders of 35mm negatives, including images of Trent Lott and Mayor Grady from 1973 (Binder 1, Page 13), the Mississippi Legislature from 1976 (Binder 4, Page 1), a 1976 rally for Jimmy Carter (Binder 4, Pages 22 & 23), a 1977 [William] Whittington award (Binder 4, Page 44), the 1977 Mississippi Legislature (Binder 4, Pages 50 & 51), and Girl Scouts & Cliff Finch (Binder 6, Page 3) (9 boxes).  To view the negatives, patrons should provide notice at least two business days prior to prospective visits so that staff may transfer them from the Library Annex (an off-site facility) to the Special Collection Reading Room. Please contact Special Collections at (662) 915-7408 to specify requested material.

Fannie Lou Hamer Collection.  A sharecropper from Sunflower County, Mississippi, Fannie Lou Hamer became active in the civil rights movement and was a founding member of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP), which attempted to unseat the all-white Democratic delegation from Mississippi at the 1964 Democratic National Convention. Hamer also campaigned that year for U.S. Representative Jamie L. Whitten's congressional seat.  The collection consists largely of documents related to various organizations and businesses with which she associated, including the MFDP, Mississippians United to Elect Negro Candidates, National Committee for Free Elections in Sunflower County, and the Voter Education Project.  4 boxes.

Evans Harrington Collection.  Evans Harrington taught English at the University of Mississippi from 1951 through his retirement in 1991. Among his papers in Box 14 are unpublished draft manuscripts by Edwin King (a prominent member of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party) regarding the civil rights movement (Folders 1-10); correspondence with Governor Ray Mabus dating from 1989 to 1992 along with related material (Folders11-13); and items related to Democrat Ken Wooten's 1991 campaign for the Mississippi Senate (Folders 15-18) (42 boxes).  42 boxes.

Pat Harrison Collection.  A Mississippi Democrat, Pat Harrison served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1911 to 1919 and in the U.S. Senate from 1919 to 1941. He was chairman of the Committee on Finance and was President Pro Tempore during the Seventy-Seventh Congress. The collection dates from his tenure in the U.S. Senate.  51 boxes. Patrons should provide notice at least two business days prior to prospective visits so that staff may transfer requested boxes from the Library Annex (an off-site facility) to the Special Collection Reading Room. Please contact Special Collections at (662) 915-7408 to specify requested material.  Twenty-six original Clifford K. Berryman political cartoons featuring Senator Harrison are available in the Berryman digital collection.  Photographs from the Pat Harrison Collection are available in the Pat Harrison digital collection.

Pat Harrison Portraits.  Eugene Fly donated to the University of Mississippi a 1942 portrait of Pat Harrison by Herbert Armstrong. The university also possesses a second, unsigned portrait of the senator.  Location: On display in the Pat Harrison Room of the J.D. Williams Library.

Armis Hawkins Collection.  Armis Hawkins won election to the Mississippi Supreme Court in 1980, and he served as Chief Justice from 1993 until his retirement in 1995.  The collection consists of materials related to his tenure on the bench.  44 boxes. Patrons should provide notice at least two business days prior to prospective visits so that staff may transfer requested boxes from the Library Annex (an off-site facility) to the Special Collection Reading Room. Please contact Special Collections at (662) 915-7408 to specify requested material.  Photographs are available in the Armis Hawkins digital collection.

Headstart Petition.  In this three-page typed manuscript circa 1968-1972, the Mississippi Coalition to Save Headstart issues a series of demands to Robert Finch, U.S. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare.  Location: Small Manuscripts 95-1 (1 folder).

George W. Healy Jr. Collection.  1921-1976.  Correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, clippings, and other material of George W. Healy Jr., longtime editor of the New Orleans Times-Picayune and an active participant on the national political and cultural scene.  Healy held several government posts during World War II with the Office of Censorship and the Office of War Information.  The collection also documents his relationships with several presidents, including John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Richard Nixon.  8 boxes.

J.D. Henderson Certificate. Dated 31 December 1919, Governor Theodore G. Bilbo signed this document certifying the election of J.D. Henderson to Justice of the Peace in Yazoo County, Mississippi. Location: Oversized Small Manuscripts 79-1 (1 folder).

J.D. Henderson Papers.  Dating from the first three decades of the twentieth century, the Henderson Papers include numerous Yazoo County forms used by J.D. Henderson in his role as Justice of the Peace. Mostly blank, these forms include labor contracts, criminal affidavit for failure to maintain the public road, general criminal affidavits, affidavit for distress warrant replevin, mittimus for bond not given, deed of trust, and warranty deed, rent contract, appearance bond, criminal bench warrant, affidavit and bond to keep the peace, affidavit for write of replevin, replevin bond by defendant, justice summons, justice cost bill, and indenture. The collection also includes a small number of personal financial documents and correspondence.  Location: Small Manuscripts 79-4 (3 folders).

James Boyce Henderson Collection.  Born in Chiwapa, Mississippi in Pontotoc County, James Boyce Henderson worked as a teacher under the Department of the Interior in Kanatak, Alaska from 1927 until the 1950s. The collection contains manuscripts, correspondence, and photographs.  3 boxes & Collection Photographs Box 39.

Verner S. Holmes Collection.  Verner S. Holmes served twenty-four years on Mississippi's Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning (1956-1980). Among his personal correspondence, photographs, and material are a complete set of the board's minutes during that period, as well as transcripts of oral interviews on higher education with board members and other public officials (including Mike Sturdivant, Governor William Winter, Governor Paul B. Johnson Jr., Lieutenant Governor Bidwell Adams, and Governor J.P. Coleman). The collection contains material related to J.P. Coleman's gubernatorial campaigns in 1955 and 1963 (Box 2, Folder 4 & Box 15) as well as a scrapbook and broadside on the former governor (Box 13). The collection also has clippings and correspondence related to Theodore G. Bilbo (Box 3, Folder 2) and a file on the 1956 Democratic National Convention in Chicago (Box 2, Folder 5).  15 boxes & Collection Photographs Box 18 Folders 51-58.

Joseph M. Howorth Collection.  In 1983-84, Lucy Somerville Howorth donated four letters her husband, lawyer Joseph M. Howorth, had received from James O. Eastland between 1927 and 1941. Three of the letters predate Eastland's career in the U.S. Senate.  1 box. Patrons should provide notice at least two business days prior to prospective visits so that staff may transfer requested boxes from the Library Annex (an off-site facility) to the Special Collection Reading Room. Please contact Special Collections at (662) 915-7408 to specify requested material.

Howry Family Collection. The Howry Family Collection contains family correspondence and documents dating from 1838 to 1981. James M. Howry was elected Circuit Court Judge in 1841. His son, Charles B. Howry served as Assistant Attorney General during President Grover Cleveland's administration and became an associate justice of the U.S. Court of Claims. Sisters Elizabeth Butler Howry and Mary Harris Howry belonged to a number of civic groups in Washington, DC: Elizabeth organized the first entertainment circuit for World War I soldiers, served as president of both the Washington Humane Society the Washington Opera Society, and accepted an appointment from President Dwight D. Eisenhower to the Committee on the National Cultural Center; Mary founded the Washington Junior League.  6 boxes.

A.P. Hudson Collection.  Beginning in 1920, Arthur Palmer Hudson taught English and folklore at the University of Mississippi.  In 1930, Governor Theodore G. Bilbo fired a number of the institution's professors.  Box 3 contains several files related to this purge, as well as a folder on Mississippi politics during 1956.  Finding aid available in Special Collections (13 boxes).

Investigation into a Charge of Bribery 1910.  In poor condition, Investigation by the Senate of the State of Mississippi of the Charges of Bribery in the Election of a United States Senator, Session of 1910 examines charges of corruption against Theodore G. Bilbo.  Location: Small Manuscripts 79-4 (1 folder).

Jackson, Mississippi Budget. This typed document is entitled "Budget of 1950-1951 as Adopted by the City Council September 27, 1950."  Location: Small Manuscripts 95-2 (1 folder).

Jasper County, Mississippi Register of Motor Vehicles & Motorcycles.  Dated 1925-27, the printed charts on the pages of this county ledger contain no entries, although some completed documents are adhered to the inside cover.  1 box.

Daniel Rupert Johnson Collection.  A graduate of the University of Mississippi, Daniel Rupert Johnson received an appointment as that institution's postmaster in 1915 and retained the post for several years prior to beginning his law practice in Batesville, Mississippi in 1921. The collection includes correspondence related to this patronage position as well as an August 1918 letter from W.D. Jamieson, Assistant Treasurer of the Democratic National Committee, requesting Johnson to raise donations for the party and reminding him of federal campaign laws (Folder 35), and a printed handbill on the same topic (Folder 62).  1 box.

John F. Johnson Collection.  Dating from 1849 through 1920, the collection contains diaries, account records, and correspondence. John Forsyth Johnson was a farmer, tax assessor and postmaster in Greensboro, Webster County, Mississippi. He kept diaries from 1857 to 1912, and his brief entries covered a wide array of topics, including politics. The collection also contains a 1909 letter from U.S. Senator H.D. Money to Johnson and the 1886-1887 minutes of the Ebenezer Agricultural Relief No. 102 in Webster County.  4 boxes.

John Wesley Johnson Collection.  The John Wesley Johnson Collection contains brief biographical sketches of University of Mississippi alumni solicited for an 1881 history of the institution.  Significant respondents include: John M. Allen (U.S. Representative from Mississippi 1885-1901) & Ezekiel Samuel Candler Jr. (Presidential Elector 1888, U.S. Representative from Mississippi 1901-1921, Mayor of Corinth, Mississippi 1933-1937).  6 boxes.

Paul B. Johnson Collection.  The Paul B. Johnson Collection consists of the typescript of a 1965 speech Governor Johnson delivered to the Mississippi Research and Development Council.  Location: Small Manuscripts 77-3 (1 folder).

Felton M. Johnston Collection.  This collection contains the correspondence, files, photographs, and scrapbooks of Felton M. Johnston, who served as Democratic Party Secretary in the Senate from 1945 to 1955 and Secretary of the Senate from 1955 through 1965. From 1965 through 1969, he was a member of the American Battlefield Monuments Commission.  A 2005 accretion to the Johnston collection contains items related to U.S. Senator Pat Harrison and the Senate Finance Committee during the 1930s.  27 boxes. Patrons should provide notice at least two business days prior to prospective visits so that staff may transfer requested boxes from the Library Annex (an off-site facility) to the Special Collection Reading Room. Please contact Special Collections at (662) 915-7408 to specify requested material.

Jones County Assessment of Personal Property, Polls, & Commutation Road Tax.  This Jones County, Mississippi ledger is dated 1925.  1 box.

Sam Jones Speech. This typed copy of a 12 September 1946 speech by Louisiana Governor Sam Jones before the National Farm Loan Association in Biloxi, Mississippi discusses the economic problems of the South. Location: Small Manuscripts 95-3 (1 folder).

Katallagete/James Y. Holloway Collection.  From 1965 through 1983, Katallagete served as the journal of the Committee of Southern Churchmen which sought to counter the turmoil of the civil rights era with a message of reconciliation. The journal continued publication through the early 1990s as a corporate entity under the leadership of its long-time editor, James Y. Holloway. Included in the collection are five letters from 1966 and 1967 by U.S. Senator John Sherman Cooper of Kentucky; one letter dated 1962 from Ralph A. Dugan, Special Assistant to John F. Kennedy, regarding Holloway's letter to the president on legislation; two letters from U.S. Senator James W. Fulbright of Arkansas dated 1962 and 1967 which discuss the Central Intelligence Agency, Laos, the Eisenhower Administration, the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and Vietnam; a 1969 letter from Fannie Lou Hamer and various drafts of her "Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired: Politics and Racial Progress?"; a 1966 letter from U.S. Senator Vance Hartke of Indiana regarding Vietnam; a 1967 letter from U.S. Senator Mark O. Hatfield of Oregon on Vietnam; a 1963 letter from Brooks Hays, Special Assistant to President Lyndon B. Johnson, on Southern Baptists and the convention; seven letters from 1967 and 1968 by John Lewis, the future U.S. Representative from Georgia; one 1969 letter from U.S. Senator Eugene J. McCarthy from Minnesota; and a 1967 letter from U.S. Senator George McGovern of South Dakota on Vietnam.  37 boxes.

Edward M. Kennedy State Primary Nomination Papers.  These sixty-two pages of official State Primary Nomination Papers from 1976 contain the signatures of Massachusetts voters nominating U.S. Senator Edward M. Kennedy to run for reelection in the Democratic primary. The residence data on the documents indicates that most of the signers lived in New Bedford, Lynn, or Danver.  Location: Oversized Small Manuscripts 78-8 (8 folders).

John F. Kennedy Teletape.  This original teletape from WXTN (a Lexington, Mississippi radio station) contains UPI reporting of President John F. Kennedy's assassination.  Location: Small Manuscripts 78-2 (1 folder).

Robert F. Kennedy Speech.  Cassette recording of U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy's speech at the University of Mississippi in 1966 before a crowd of 6,000, available as a digital collection.

Ed King Collection. A Methodist minister and a white Mississippian, Ed King was a leader in the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party which challenged the all-white Mississippi Democratic Party during the 1960s civil rights movement. In the 1963 mock election of the MFDP, King appeared on the ballot for lieutenant governor. Three years later, he ran against U.S. Representative John Bell Williams in the state Democratic primary. King also served as one of the MFDP delegates to the 1968 Democratic National Convention. The collection contains clippings, campaign material, and publications.  10 boxes.

Ed King Manuscript.  This collection contains an unpublished autobiography of the civil rights activist and Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party leader.  Location: Small Manuscripts 78-3 (13 folders). This manuscript has been digitized as part of the Civil Rights Archive.

Morton King Collection. Morton King was a sociology professor at the University of Mississippi.  He resigned in protest after Chancellor J.D. Williams rescinded the invitation of Rev. Alvin L. Kershaw to speak during the 1956 Religious Emphasis Week due to Kershaw's liberal stance on race relations. Among the material related to this incident is a letter from former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt which contains comments upon the South.  1 box.

"Know Your State" Scrapbooks.  These two scrapbooks contain clippings of Ray M. Thompson's column "Know Your State" which appeared in Mississippi newspapers throughout the 1960s and featured profiles of Mississippi locales, history, and culture. Political topics include J.Z. George, John A. Quitman, Winthrop Sargent, A.J. McLaurin & the capital case of Will Purvis, Dorothy Painter Crawford ( Mississippi's first female mayor), Pat Harrison, Jacob Thompson, Charles Granville Hamilton, Robert J. Walker, Woodrow Wilson vacationing at Pass Christian, Jefferson Davis, L.Q.C. Lamar, Manuel Gayoso de Lemos (Spanish Governor of the Natchez District), Henry Stuart Foote, John J. McRae, Andrew Jackson's Mississippi plantation in Coahoma County, W.C.C. Claiborne, J.F.H. Claiborne, James L. Alcorn, Aaron Burr's trial in Mississippi, Zachary Taylor & his Mississippi connections, Theodore G. Bilbo, Stephen D. Lee, E.C. Walthall, Homestead Exemption Law in Mississippi, the Mississippi Governor's Mansion, Mississippi's Old Capitol & New Capitol, Benjamin G. Humphreys, and Mississippi property rights for women. Location: Oversized Small Manuscripts 92-2.

Knox Collection of Extremist Literature. The Knox Collection consists of various extremist and conservative literature, including anti-communist, anti-Semitic, conservative Christian, and segregationist material.  12 boxes.

Lafayette County Records.  Special Collections possesses a number of ledgers from Lafayette County, Mississippi: Affidavit & Certificate to Vote (1950-1951, 1956-1963); Assessment Roll, Public Service Corporations (1941); Automobile Register (1941 & 1951); Biennial Report of the Board of Trustees and Superintendent of the East Mississippi Insane Asylum (1890-1891); Cash Disbursement, Warrant Register (1933-1935); Chattel Mortgage Record (1927-1928); Cigarette Stamp Tax Receipts for Retail Customers (1930-1931); Cost Bills, Chancery Court (1936-1940); Deed of Trust (1902); District Attorney's Docket (1925-1927); Fish & Game Licenses (1930); Homestead Exemption Applications, State & County (1938 & 1943); Land Roll (1938-39, 1946-1947); List of Land Sold to Individuals for Taxes (1928-1934); List of Land for Assessment (1932); Municipal Assessments (1944-1945, 1950-1951); Personal Assessment Roll (1880-1881, 1908, 1910-1911, 1914, 1918-1919, 1921-1922, 1926-1927, 1929, 1931-1932, 1934-1935, 1937, 1939, 1946); Poll Tax Exemption Affidavits (1936-1938); Privilege License (1924-1928), Property Sold with State for Delinquent Taxes (1936-1937); Real Estate Assessment (1917, 1923, 1926, 1932, 1934, 1936, 1938, 1940, 1942, 1944-1951); Receipts for Payment of State and County Taxes (1921 & 1926); Road & Bridge Privilege Tax License (1927); Tax List (1905); Tax Receipts (1905-1906); Transfer Disbursement & Receipts (1946); Witness Certificates, Civil Cases, and Lafayette County Circuit Court (1911-1913).  1 box and 135 volumes.

Cuthbert M. Lagrone Radio Address.  This undated, typed document provides the transcript for the Shelby County [ Tennessee] Young Democratic Club's introductory and closing announcements for the eleventh in a series of radio talks the group sponsored on American political history. It also includes the full text of Professor Lagrone's address on reconstruction entitled "The Tragic Era."  Location: Small Manuscripts 95-1 (1 folder).

L.Q.C. Lamar Society Collection.  This collection contains clippings, correspondence, records, and publications of the L.Q.C. Lamar Society founded in 1969. Named after the former Mississippi statesman, the nonpartisan, nonpolitical group espoused a commitment to capitalize on the talents of future leaders by finding practical solutions for the South's problems.  Location: Small Manuscripts 89-1 (4 folders). These papers have been digitized as part of the Civil Rights Archive.

Laurel, Mississippi Scrapbook.  Dating from 1961 to 1962, this scrapbook contains clippings on Laurel citizens and events. These include a 1962 obituary for Judge Roy Pickens Noble (who served sixteen years as a Jones County Judge and then fourteen as Chancellor for the Second District), a piece on a Board of Trustees of State Mental Institutions 1962 meeting in Ellisville, as well as numerous articles related to John F. Kennedy's death and its aftermath.  1 box.

Law Review Collection. The ten letters from 1922-1923 that comprise this collection focus on the inaugural issues of the University of Mississippi Law Review journal. Correspondents include former Mississippi Governor & future U.S. Senator Theodore G. Bilbo as well as two members of the Mississippi Supreme Court -- George H. Etheridge and Sydney Smith.  Location: Small Manuscripts 86-1 (10 folders).

League of Women Voters of Mississippi Collection.  This collection contains records of the Mississippi Division of the League of Women Voters as well as those of individual chapters within the state. Dating from 1946 through 1994, the collection consists of correspondence, publications, minutes, reports, rosters, press releases, financial records, scrapbooks, political cartoons, audiovisual recordings, and other material. 29 boxes.  Patrons should provide notice at least two business days prior to prospective visits so that staff may transfer requested boxes from the Library Annex (an off-site facility) to the Special Collection Reading Room. Please contact Special Collections at (662) 915-7408 to specify requested material.  Photographs and recordings from the collection are digitized and available online.

Legislative Desks.  Following a reapportionment in 1962 that reduced the number of members in the Mississippi House of Representatives, that chamber passed a resolution two years later placing sixteen surplus desks in the library of the University of Mississippi. Location: Archives and Special Collections and throughout the J.D. Williams Library.

H.L. Drane Lester Collection.  A graduate of the University of Mississippi and its Law School, Drane Lester joined the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 1932. He became the author of a radio program about the FBI, traveled frequently on speaking engagements, and contributed the Latin motto for the agency. At the time of his death in 1943, Lester held the position of Director of Public Relations at the FBI. The collection consists of eight scrapbooks. 

Library Papers.  Dating from 1848 to 1968, this collection contains the administrative files maintained by the library at the University of Mississippi. It includes a 1969 letter from J.P. Coleman, a 1956 letter from Frank Smith, and a 1957 letter from Heber Ladner (Mississippi Secretary of State from 1948 to 1980). Finding aid available in Special Collections.  62 boxes.

H.H. Litty Collection.  H.H. Litty (1862-1929) served as mayor of Memphis, Tennessee from 1917 to 1918. In 1998, the University of Mississippi acquired his extensive library of books which also included a small amount of correspondence, clippings, financial records, and ephemera. Among the correspondence is a 1904 letter from John Sharp Williams, U.S. Representative from Mississippi (later U.S. Senator), regarding Memphis property and a 1909 letter from A.C. Lake of Memphis to Litty with an attached annotated broadside of a letter that same year from Lake to William Jennings Bryan regarding the currency issue.  1 box.

Lockwood Collection.  Dating from 1891 to 1958, this collection of material related to the Lockwood family of Mississippi includes newspaper clippings regarding U.S. Senator Pat Harrison and his aunt, Mrs. Emma Patton Lockwood.  2 boxes.

Huey P. Long Broadside.  In this broadside entitled "People of America: In Every Community Get Together at Once and Organize a Share Our Wealth Society," U.S. Senator Huey P. Long of Louisiana urges the creation of local organizations to support his anti-poverty program to combat the Great Depression.  Location: Oversized Small Manuscripts (1 folder).

Sam Lumpkin Collection.  A Democrat, Sam Lumpkin represented Tupelo and Lee County in the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1932 to 1942 and as Speaker of the House from 1940-1942.  Lumpkin was Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi from 1948 to 1952.  During the 1952 presidential election, he led the faction of Democrats who supported Republican presidential nominee Dwight D. Eisenhower.  8 boxes.    Patrons should provide notice at least two business days prior to prospective visits so that staff may transfer requested boxes from the Library Annex (an off-site facility) to the Special Collection Reading Room. Please contact Special Collections at (662) 915-7408 to specify requested material. 

W.T. Marshall Collection. Employed by the U.S. Government Printing House, William Thomas Marshall was loaned to the White House in 1899 to serve as a clerk, and he remained there for the next thirty-eight years. Marshall acted as personal librarian for Theodore Roosevelt and five of the next six presidents (the exception was Herbert Hoover who already had a personal librarian). The collection contains correspondence, manuscripts, prints, publications, invitations, albums, signatory pens, and photographs acquired during Marshall's career in the White House.  9 boxes and Collection Photographs Boxes 4-13.

Gordon A. Martin Jr. Collection.  A U.S. Department of Justice attorney during the 1960s, Gordon A. Martin Jr. participated in civil rights and voter registration litigation in Mississippi.  Contains court documents as well as oral history with African American witnesses in the case Theron v. Lynd.  3 boxes.

McAlexander/Marshall County Collection.  The McAlexander Collection includes an unidentified, undated black-and-white photograph of a Marshall County political rally (Collection Photographs Box 34 Folder 10).  6 boxes and Collection Photographs Box 34.

Mary McGuire Manuscript. Entitled "The Forgotten Women," this unpublished typed manuscript by Mary McGuire is circa 1950 and focuses on the contemporary plight of African American women. In the introduction to this 100 plus page document, the author describes herself as "an American negro woman, born in the state of Mississippi." One of her chapters is "The Negro Woman and Politics."  Location: Small Manuscripts 2001-1 (1 folder).

Memories of Mississippi Essay Collection.  To coincide with a 1990s exhibit, the University Museums solicited this collection of essays by Mississippians on their memories of the Great Depression. The papers of Lou Della Gladney & Betty Lundy contain recollections related to politics in that era.  1 box.

James H. Meredith Collection.  In 1962, James Meredith became the first African-American student to enroll at the University of Mississippi. The Meredith Collection contains material related to the integration of that institution, his campaign for a Mississippi congressional seat in 1972, and his 1989 service on the congressional staff of U.S. Senator Jesse Helms from North Carolina. The collection also includes miscellaneous items related to his political activism, his candidacy for public offices from the 1960s through the 1990s, and his correspondence with local, state, and national political figures (146 boxes). A sampling of correspondence from this collection is available as a Integration Correspondence digital collection.

James Meredith Small Manuscripts. Among the miscellaneous items in this collection associated with James Meredith and the 1962 integration of the University of Mississippi is a typescript of a 1962 letter from Governor Ross Barnett to an officer of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools as well as several items related to the Mississippi Board of Trustees of the Institutions of Higher Learning.  12 boxes.

Bill Miles Collection.  1962-2011.  The voters of Itawamba and Monroe counties elected Bill Miles to the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1996 where he served for the next twelve years, in time becoming chair of the powerful Transportation Committee.  He also operated a public relations firm in north Mississippi that represented several local political candidates, including U.S. Representative Jamie Whitten.  7 boxes.  Patrons should provide notice at least two business days prior to prospective visits so that staff may transfer requested boxes from the Library Annex (an off-site facility) to the Special Collection Reading Room. Please contact Special Collections at (662) 915-7408 to specify requested material.  Photographs are available in the Bill Miles digital collection.

Mississippi Agriculture & Industry Board Information Releases. The Mississippi Agriculture & Industry Board periodically sent proofs of their information releases to publishers. The proofs in this collection contain articles circa the 1940s featuring the state's tourism, agriculture, industry, and economy.  Location: Oversized Small Manuscripts 95-1 (1 folder).

Mississippi Author Small Manuscripts. Among the items in this collection are two typed drafts of Louis Cochran's Hallelujah, Mississippi. A novelist, Cochran also served as an FBI agent in the 1930s.  9 boxes

Mississippi Campaign Ephemera.  This small collection contains twentieth-century Mississippi gubernatorial campaign posters for Ross Barnett, Cliff Finch, Rubel Phillips, Bill Waller, and John Bell Williams.  Location: Oversized Small Manuscripts (1 folder).

Mississippi Conservation & Recreation Collection.  Dating from the 1940s through 2004, this small collection contains a miscellaneous assortment of publications related to conservation and outdoor recreation programs in the state of Mississippi.  2 boxes.

Mississippi Department of Public Welfare Collection.  This small collection contains reports, correspondence, and legislation dating from 1949 through the 1950s related to the Mississippi Department of Public Welfare.  Location: Small Manuscripts 95-2 (1 folder).

Mississippi Economic Council Collection.  Organized in 1948, the Mississippi Economic Council serves as a legislative advocate for the state's commercial, industrial, and professional communities. This small collection contains a miscellaneous assortment of publications and reports by the groups from 1955 through 1980.  1 box.

Mississippi Education Collection. This small assortment of items related to education in the state of Mississippi contains a number of twentieth-century reports and publications related to the state legislature.  1 box.  Available as a digital collection.

Mississippi Forestry Collection. This collection of material related to the state's forests dates from 1928 through the 1980s and includes a number of publications on the state's forestry program as well as U.S. Forest Service interests in the state.  1 box.

Mississippi Health Care Collection.  Dating from the 1940s through the 1980s, this collection contains items related to health care in the state, including 1940s documents from the Leflore County Health Department; several items from Mississippi's Children Commission; a number of publications from the Mississippi State Board of Health, and other items on public health.  2 boxes.

Mississippi Landmarks Collection.  This collection of historic Mississippi locations includes information on the New Capitol, the Old Warren County Courthouse, and the Mississippi Governor Mansion.  2 boxes.

Mississippi Law Collection.  Dating from the 1930s through the 1980s, this small collection contains material related to the law and law enforcement in the state.  1 box.

Mississippi Libraries Collection.  This collection of material dates from the 1930s and the 1990s and includes documents on public libraries and the Mississippi Library Commission.  1 box.

Mississippi Mental Health Collection.  Dating from the 1950s through the 1980s, this collection contains information on the state's mental health care programs.  1 box.

Mississippi Organizations Collection.  Spanning the twentieth-century, this small collection contains material on a variety of organizations in the state, including the Mississippi Department of Archives & History, State Budget Commission, the L.Q.C. Lamar Society, Red Cross reports to the governor in 1956 & 1958, Mississippians for Educational Television, Mississippi State Textbook Purchasing Board, and the State Veterans Affairs Commission.  2 boxes.

Mississippi Periodicals Collection.  1921-1982.  Assorted periodicals with articles about Mississippi or published in Mississippi.  In addition to general articles on politics in the state, it includes articles by or about the following subjects:  John Stennis, Pat Harrison, James Kimble Vardaman, Larry Speakes, Theodore G. Bilbo, William F. Winter, J.P. Coleman, and James O. Eastland.  6 boxes.

Mississippi Politics Collection.  This collection contains an assortment of miscellaneous items related to Mississippi politics and politicians dating from the 1930s through the present.  4 boxes.  Patrons should provide notice at least two business days prior to prospective visits so that staff may transfer requested boxes from the Library Annex (an off-site facility) to the Special Collection Reading Room. Please contact Special Collections at (662) 915-7408 to specify requested material.

Mississippi Prohibition Material. This small collection contains two 1957 resolutions on state prohibition by the North Mississippi Conference of the United Methodist Church and a third by the Executive Committee of Mississippi Baptist Association of Amite and Wilkinson Counties. Also included is a pamphlet circa 1952 entitled "Beware of Repeal" published by the United Dry Association of Jackson, Mississippi.  Location: Small Manuscripts 95-4 (1 folder).

Mississippi Social Security Material.  The material in this collection includes several 1952 issues of the Mississippi Municipal News as well as copies of typed manuscripts that answer common questions about Social Security.  Location: Small Manuscripts 95-1 (1 folder).

Mississippi State Fair Letter.  This 29 September 1958 typed letter from N.S. Hand, Executive Secretary of the Mississippi State Fair, thanks state legislators for providing funds and an invitation to Legislator's Day.  Location: Small Manuscripts 94-1 (1 folder).

Mississippi State Textbook Purchasing Board Minutes Collection.  1940-1987.  Copies of the Mississippi State Textbook Purchasing Board minutes.  In addition to details of the meetings, the minutes also include lists of approved textbook titles and publishers for each subject in each grade.  1 box.   Available as a digital collection.

Mississippi Taxation Documents.  This small collection of material related to state taxes dates from 1936 through 1958 and includes documents from the State Tax Commission, the Mississippi Supreme Court, the Mississippi Taxpayers Protective Association, and the Legislative Tax Study Committee.  Location: Small Manuscripts 95-5 (1 folder).

Willie Morris Collection.  Born in 1934 in Jackson, Mississippi, Willie Morris edited the Texas Observer, a liberal weekly newspaper, between 1960 and 1962. In 1963, he joined the editing staff of Harper's magazine and became its editor-in-chief in 1967, resigning in 1971. Morris wrote a number of non-fiction books that explored the theme of southern identity. In addition to literary drafts and research, the collection also contains Morris's extensive correspondence from 1954 through 1993 which includes letters from Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour, U.S. Senator Bill Bradley from New Jersey, White House advisor McGeorge Bundy, President George H.W. Bush, President Bill Clinton, U.S. Senator Thad Cochran, Governor James P. Coleman, U.S. Senator Sam Ervin Jr. from North Carolina, U.S. Senator J.W. Fulbright from Arkansas, U.S. Senator Gary Hart from Colorado, White House advisor Vernon E. Jordan Jr., Robert F. Kennedy, Edwin King, U.S. Senator Trent Lott, Governor Ray Mabus, Mississippi political journalist Bill Minor, President Richard M. Nixon, former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Vice President Nelson A. Rockefeller, Sargeant & Eunice Shriver, U.S. Representative Frank E. Smith, U.S. Representative Morris K. Udall of Arizona, Governor John Bell Williams, and Governor William F. Winter.  173 boxes.

Mount Vernon Ladies Association of the Union Collection.  2007-2010.  Promotional items for special events at George Washington's home Mount Vernon.  1 box.

William Murphy Collection.  While an Associate Professor of Law at the University in 1954, William Murphy submitted a proposal to the Mississippi Legal Educational Advisory Committee for dealing with the Supreme Court's Brown versus Board integration decision. Murphy's proposal appeared in the newspapers, and he was widely castigated as an integrationist. The collection contains photocopied responses from a number of national politicians to whom he also sent copies.  1 box.

Nash & Taggart Collection.  Contains audio recordings of oral histories conducted by Jere Nash and Andy Taggart in the process of writing their book Mississippi Politics:  The Struggle for Power, 1976-2006 and the subsequent edition Mississippi Politics:  The Struggle for Power, 1976-2008.  Interviewees include governors, members of Congress, state legislators, state officials, state party leaders, political candidates, staff members, lawyers, and lobbyists.  The subject of discussions range from state political parties, national and state elections, individual politicians, educational reform, the state highway program, gambling, tort reform, and reapportionment; digital collection available.

National Federation of American Party Women Pamphlet. Entitled "The ONLY Political Party Totally United in Opposition to Equal Rights Amendment," the National Federation of American Party Women pamphlet is from the 1970s.  Location: Small Manuscripts 2001-2 (1 folder).

National Organization for Women Newsletter. The collection contains the feminist organization's Say It Now newsletter from 1976.  Location: Small Manuscripts 78-14 (1 folder).

New Capitol Cornerstone Collection. This collection contains materials on the occasion of the 1903 laying of the cornerstone for the new Mississippi Capitol building in Jackson.  Location: Small Manuscripts 78-1 (1 folder).

New South. The June 1965 issue of the Southern Regional Council journal includes an article by Gordon B. Henderson entitled "The New Republicans of Mississippi."  Location: Small Manuscripts 94-1 (1 folder).

Newspapers (Boxed).  Box 4 holds 1979 to 1981 issues of the Jackson Capital Reporter.  Box 55 contains 1970-1979 issues of Eagle:  Official Publication of the Mississippi Republican Party.  Box 57 includes a four-page political advertisement for 1946 campaign of Ross Collins for U.S. Senate (Box 57), a 1952 Columbian Progress "Hugh L. White Inaugural Issue," and a 1953 Washington Post with headlines on inauguration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower.  Boxes 61 and 75 contain entire issues of Missisippi newspapers from the collection of U.S. Senator James O. Eastland (most featuring articles on Eastland).  Box 63 holds a 1956 Jackson State Times "James P. Coleman Inaugural Edition.  74 boxes.

"Cora Norman Bid for State Auditor Office, 1991" Scrapbook.  Dr. Cora Norman created this scrapbook to document her unsuccessful state campaign for Mississippi State Auditor in 1991.  Contains typed and handwritten notations, newspaper clippings, campaign ephemera, and photographs.  1 box.  Patrons should provide notice at least two business days prior to prospective visits so that staff may transfer requested boxes from the Library Annex (an off-site facility) to the Special Collection Reading Room. Please contact Special Collections at (662) 915-7408 to specify requested material. 

James D. Nunnally Collection.  1976-1982.  James D. Nunnally was a freelance journalist who wrote primarily about politics and outdoor activities like hunting.  Includes political correspondence with presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford as well as members of Congress (primarily from Tennessee).  7 boxes.

Edwin Bennett Ogden Jr. Collection.  1914-2012.  Edwin Bennett Ogden Jr. moved to Cub in 1922 and remained there until the Cuban Revolution.  After returning home to Natchez, Mississippi in the 1960, Ogden became active in the Republican Party, frequently participating in state and national campaigns and serving in public office as the first Republican elected in Adams County since Reconstruction.  Collection includes correspondence, records, publications, and campaign ephemera on both Cuban and American politics.  21 boxes.

Open Doors Small Manuscripts Collection.  All items in the Open Doors Small Manuscripts were collected during the 2002 anniversary commemoration of the integration of the University of Mississippi. The collection includes a letter by Deputy U.S. Marshal Jesse Dale Jordan to Chief U.S. Marshal James McShane & a report by the National Guard commander Murry C. "Chook" Falkner. Finding aid available in Special Collections.  1 box.

Opium Records.  This collection contains regulatory documents and material related to the sale of opium kept by Dr. S.R. Towns of Union Church, Mississippi between 1922 and 1951.  Location: Small Manuscripts 95-2.  1 folder.

Joe Overstreet Campaign Button Collection.  Presidential campaign buttons dating from 1964 to 1988.  1 box.  Patrons should provide notice at least two business days prior to prospective visits so that staff may transfer requested boxes from the Library Annex (an off-site facility) to the Special Collection Reading Room. Please contact Special Collections at (662) 915-7408 to specify requested material.

Oxford American Collection.  The Oxford American began publication in 1992. Focusing on the South, content includes fiction, essays, poetry, interviews, reports, and graphic arts. The collection contains handwritten and typed manuscript drafts as well as correspondence, advertising records, and clippings. Included among the documents are a 1988 letter from Governor Ray Mabus to editor Marc Smirnoff (Accretion 2, Box 1, Folder 1); a typed manuscript by William F. Buckley entitled "The New Optimism" (Accretion 2, Box 5, Folder 10); and correspondence, manuscripts, and other items related to an interview with President Jimmy Carter that appeared in Issue 25 (Accretion 99-69, Box 4, Folders 11-14).  81 boxes.

Ed Perry Collection. Ed Perry represented the Oxford district in the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1968 until his retirement in 1999. Members of the House elected Perry "Clerk of the House" in 2000. The collection contains a DVD recording and program from a 2003 Capitol Centennial Celebration during which Perry recited Judge N.S. "Soggy" Sweat's famous "Whiskey Speech." It also includes eight letters of tribute regarding Perry from various state leaders.  Patrons should provide notice at least two business days prior to prospective visits so that staff may transfer requested boxes from the Library Annex (an off-site facility) to the Special Collection Reading Room. Please contact Special Collections at (662) 915-7408 to specify requested material.  Photographs and a recording are available online as a digital collection.

Petition to "Pass Federal Anti-Lynch Law Now!" An unsigned petition circulated by the National Negro Council in 1947 urges congressional passage of an anti-lynching law that would set a death penalty for lynching participants and a $25,000 fine from the county and state for the victim's family. Petition also carries the headline "KEEP BILBO OUT OF THE SENATE."  Location: Small Manuscripts 92-1 (1 folder).

Charles J. Pettibone Collection.  This collection includes material from 1935-37 related to Pettibone's tenure as mayor of Hines, Oregon; 1941-42 correspondence related to Pettibone's railroad retirement claim; and two letters from Oregon Governor Charles A. Sprague dated 1941-42 regarding the lumber industry.  1 box.

Clarence Pierce Collection.  Clarence Pierce served as Carroll County's representative to the Mississippi Legislature from 1952-1984. From 1964-1968, Pierce also acted as a staff assistant to U.S. Senator James O. Eastland and from 1968-1972, he became an employee of the U.S. Senate. The collection consists largely of correspondence dating from 1946 to 1995 and includes letters from Lieutenant Governor Fielding L. Wright, Mississippi Speaker of the House Walter Sillers, U.S. Representative Frank E. Smith, Vice President Hubert Humphrey, Judge J.P. Coleman, Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell, Mississippi Speaker of the House C.B. "Buddie" Newman, U.S. Representative Jamie L. Whitten, President Gerald R. Ford, President John F. Kennedy, U.S. Senator John C. Stennis, U.S. Senator John O. Pastore, U.S. Senator John McCain, and U.S. Senator Roman L. Hruska.  1 box.  Patrons should provide notice at least two business days prior to prospective visits so that staff may transfer requested boxes from the Library Annex (an off-site facility) to the Special Collection Reading Room. Please contact Special Collections at (662) 915-7408 to specify requested material.

Political Cartoon Collection.  Assortment of original political cartoon drawings related to Theodore Roosevelt, William H. Taft, and Calvin Coolidge dating from 1910 to 1924.  1 box.  Patrons should provide notice at least two business days prior to prospective visits so that staff may transfer requested boxes from the Library Annex (an off-site facility) to the Special Collection Reading Room. Please contact Special Collections at (662) 915-7408 to specify requested material.

Political Science Department Vertical Files.  1952-1984.  Vertical files and local and state politics and government generated by the University of Mississippi Political Science Department.  Includes material on Oxford, Mississippi and its zoning laws as well as election results in the state from 1968 to 1984.  1 box.  Patrons should provide notice at least two business days prior to prospective visits so that staff may transfer requested boxes from the Library Annex (an off-site facility) to the Special Collection Reading Room. Please contact Special Collections at (662) 915-7408 to specify requested material.

Race Relations Collection.  This collection of material related to race relations at the University of Mississippi, the state, and the region and includes the March 1956 Mississippi Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 125 which invoked the doctrine of interposition to prevent desegregation (Box 1, Folder 3); a folder of items related to U.S. Senator James O. Eastland (Box 2, Folder 1); a 1957 American Legion Post No. 63 (Macon, Mississippi) resolution regarding integration of Veterans Hospitals (Box 2, Folder 10); A 1959 pamphlet of Governor John Bell Williams' speech "Interposition: The Neglected Weapon" (Box 2, Folder 13); material related to the Republican Party of Mississippi (Box 2, Folder 16); a parody of Governor Ross Barnet entitled "A Southern Observance" circa 1962 (Box 2, Folder 17); biographical information on Mississippi Democratic Freedom Party candidates (Box 2, Folder 28); text of John Bell Williams' televised speech regarding the Jackson State University riot in 1970 (Box 3, Folder 7); political ephemera for Charles Evers and Ross Barnett (Box 3, Folder 8); pamphlet for gubernatorial candidate Jimmy Swan (Box 3, Folder 15); a 1956 publication entitled "Jackson Veterans Administration Hospital Integration" (Box 3, Folder 24); broadside featuring MAD Magazine character Alfred E. Neuman as "Applicant for the Next Vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court" (Box 4, Folder 4); 1955 broadsheet by the Grass Roots League of Charleston, South Carolina on the subversive affiliations of Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (Box 4, Folder 8); a pamphlet entitled "The NAACP Legislative Scorecard" (Box 4, Folder 9); a 1957 pamphlet distributed by the Georgia Commission on Education entitled "Resolution Requesting the Impeachment of Six Members of the U.S. Supreme Court" (Box 4, Folder 11); a 1960 Escambia County, South Carolina primary ballot with a white supremacy logo (Box 4, Folder 18); a 1963 publication by Robert Rankin entitled The Impact of Civil Rights Upon Twentieth Century Federalism issued by the University of Illinois Political Science Department (Box 4, Folder 25); NAACP publications regarding voter registration (Box 4, Folder 29); a 1966 press release by the Voter Education Project of the Southern Regional Council entitled "What Happened in the South" (Box 4, Folder 32); clippings and reprints of articles on the Southern National Party (Box 5, Folder 1 & 6-11); a poem regarding Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus and the Little Rock Central High School desegregation (Box 5, Folder 15); a membership form for the National States' Rights Party (Box 5, Folder 16); advertisement for Herman Talmadge's You and Segregation (Box 5, Folder 17); a 1928 broadsheet on the racial platform of the Communist Party (Box 6, Folder 5); material related to the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (Box 9, Folder 2); a typed manuscript regarding the Poor Peoples March from Mississippi to Washington, DC (Box 9, Folder 25); a broadsheet entitled "Senator McGovern's Record on America's Minorities" (Box 9, Folder 25); and a clipping entitled "Dr. Spock Says: 'Vote Dick Gregory! for President'" ( Box 9, Folder 25).  9 boxes.

W.W. Ramsey Manuscript.  This photocopy of a typed manuscript by W.W. Ramsey is entitled "My Life in the Vicksburg Bar."  Born in 1887, Ramsey's account includes information on other members of the Vicksburg Bar. Among the individuals discussed are J.D. Thames (district attorney), R.M. Kelly (a former City Assessor and County Sheriff), Judge George Anderson, Mississippi State Senator Harry Murray, General T.C. Catchings (former state Attorney General and U.S. Congressman), District Attorney N. Vick Robbins, Judge Pat Henry (also a U.S. Congressman), Pete Canizaro (former state legislator & city judge), Judge Theodore Birchett, J.B. Dabney (Superintendent of Education in Warren County), A.A. Chaney (former state legislator), Judge Oscar Labarre,  He also discusses Chancery Court Judge J.D. Thames Jr. and three judges on the Ninth Judicial District of the Circuit Court: E.L. Brien, Robert Anderson, and Ben Guider.  Location: Small Manuscripts 82-1 (1 folder).

John Rankin Collection. A Democrat from Mississippi, John Rankin served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1921 to 1953.  An advocate for rural electrification, he co-authored the bill creating the Tennessee Valley Authority.  Rankin chaired the World War Veterans' Legislation Committee from 1931 to 1946 and the Veterans' Affairs Committee from 1949 to 1952.  He also served briefly on the House of Un-American Activities Committee.  342 boxes.  Patrons should provide notice at least two business days prior to prospective visits so that staff may transfer requested boxes from the Library Annex (an off-site facility) to the Special Collection Reading Room. Please contact Special Collections at (662) 915-7408 to specify requested material.  

Mrs. John Robert Rayburn Collection.  The Rayburn Collection includes photocopies of correspondence between Rayburn & other Oxford residents with Wirt Armistead Cate, the biographer of L.Q.C. Lamar.  Location: Small Manuscripts 76-7 (1 folder). 

T.H. Rayburn Collection. The T.H. Rayburn Collection consists of twentieth-century philatelic envelopes whose stamps honor Civil War and Old West images, including a number of U.S. Presidents and other political figures.  4 boxes.

Ishmael Reed Letters. This collection consists of two letters by poet Ishmael Reed to fellow poet Amiri Baraka. One letter is dated 3 October 1975; and the other is undated and discusses "Afro-Communists" and politics in general.  Location: Small Manuscripts 86-1 (1 folder).

Jack Reed Collection.  A Republican and native of Tupelo, Jack Reed conducted an unsuccessful campaign for governor of Mississippi in 1987. He has served as chairman of the 1980 Blue Ribbon Committee for Public Education in Mississippi, the State Board of Education in Mississippi, and the National Advisory Council on Educational Research and Improvement. Reed is the recipient of the Hardin Award for Distinguished Service to Education in Mississippi. Dating from 1963 through 1995, the collection contains correspondence, speeches, and clippings.  1 box.

Report on Jackson Public Facilities. This 1952 mimeographed typed document is entitled "Report and Recommendations Relating to A Grouping of Public Facilities to Form a Center City of Jackson, Mississippi. Prepared at the Direction of The City Planning Board, Jackson, Mississippi."  Location: Small Manuscripts 95-2 (1 folder).

Eleanor Richmond Collection.  The collection consists of newspapers dating from 1902-1911 with articles on President Woodrow Wilson.  Location: Small Manuscripts 76-7 (1 folder).

Kim Lacy Rogers Manuscript.  In a manuscript entitled "The Movement and Mobility: Federal Intervention and Political Power in the Mississippi," Kim Lacy Rogers (a faculty member at Dickinson College in Pennsylvania) describes the results of a National Endowment for the Humanities grant to study the civil rights movement in the Mississippi Delta counties of Sunflower, Bolivar, Coahoma, and Washington. Location: Small Manuscripts 96-1 (1 folder).

Lamont Rowlands Collection.  Rowlands was a prominent member of the Republican Party in Mississippi during a period with the Democratic Party dominated state politics.  Political files date from 1928 to 1950.  30 boxes.

Dr. & Mrs. Dunbar Rowland Collection. Governor Andrew Longino appointed Dunbar Rowland director of the newly created Mississippi Department of Archives & History in 1902, and Rowland retained the position until his death in 1937. His wife, Eron served as interim director until a successor was named. The author of several books including Varina Howell: Wife of Jefferson Davis and Andrew Jackson's Campaign Against the British, Eron Rowland died in 1951. Dating from 1888 to 1952, the collection contains correspondence, manuscripts, speeches, clippings, scrapbooks, sheet music, and photographs. Among the photographs is an portrait of U.S. Representative Charles E. Hooker of Mississippi & an image of a document signed by Thomas Jefferson.  6 boxes and Collection Photographs Box 16 Folders 83-171 and Box 18 Folders 21-30.

David G. Sansing Collection. An Emeritus History Professor at the University of Mississippi, David G. Sansing is the author of several Mississippi histories. The collection contains research material related to politics for the following books:  A History of the Mississippi Governor's Mansion (1977),  Mississippi Life:  Past and Present (1980), Mississippi:  Its People and Culture (1981), Mississippi:  The Study of Our State (1993), The University of Mississippi:  A Sesquicentennial History (1999), Making Haste Slowly:  The Troubled History of Higher Education in Mississippi (1990).  12 boxes and Collection Photographs Box 39.

John C. Satterfield/American Bar Association Collection. The John C. Satterfield Collection contains files related to Satterfield's involvement in the American Bar Association which he presided over from 1961-1963. The papers also include speeches and case files associated with Satterfield's representation of Mississippi Governor Ross Barnett during the 1962 University of Mississippi integration crisis as well as his involvement in consolidated cases of public-school boards across Mississippi and the South seeking to delay desegregation.  51 boxes & 1 oil portrait.  Patrons should provide notice at least two business days prior to prospective visits so that staff may transfer requested boxes from the Library Annex (an off-site facility) to the Special Collection Reading Room. Please contact Special Collections at (662) 915-7408 to specify requested material.  Photographs from the collection are available in the John C. Satterfield/American Bar Association digital collection.

Charles Scott Campaign Broadside.  Entitled "Something to Be Proud Of," this North Mississippi Herald broadside endorses the candidacy of Charles Scott for Mississippi governor in 1906.  Location: Small Manuscripts 98-1 (1 folder).

Francis B. Sayre Collection.  The Sayre Collection consists of a handwritten letter dated 16 February 1920 from Sayre that evaluates publications about her father, President Woodrow Wilson.  Location: Small Manuscripts 77-3 (1 folder).

Charles Scott Broadside.  Dated 31 March 1906, Charles Scott formally announced his candidacy for Mississippi governor with this broadside entitled "Platform of Charles Scott: He Regards Governorship the Highest Honor, and When His Term Shall Expire, Will Devote the Remainder of His Life to Agriculture."  Location: Oversized Small Manuscripts 79-1 (1 folder).

Scrapbook with Green Cover.  This scrapbook kept by a resident of Ripley, Mississippi contains newspaper clippings from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including an article on U.S. Senator Thomas Spight of Mississippi.  Location: Small Manuscripts 78-8.

Ron Shapiro Campaign Broadside.  Dated May 1993, this broadside urges voters to "Throw the Rascals In" and elect Ron Shapiro as Oxford, Mississippi alderman.  Location: Oversized Small Manuscripts Broadsheets & Broadsides (1 folder).

Sheet Music Collection.  Among the sheet music that comprises this small collection is an 1858 copy of "General Quitman's Grand March" whose cover consists of a portrait of this antebellum Mississippi governor and a 1930 copy of "Mississippi that Grand Old State of Mine" with a cover portrait of Mississippi Governor Dennis Murphree.  1 box.

James W. Silver Collection. James W. Silver was a history professor at the University of Mississippi between 1936-1964 and wrote the bestseller Mississippi: The Closed Society (1963) which discusses the repressive nature of the state's white, segregationist population and recounts the integration of the university by James Meredith in 1962. The collection contains correspondence, manuscripts, speeches, and research material. Political topics and correspondents in the collection include Ross R. Barnett, Frank E. Smith, Paul B. Johnson, Aaron Henry, the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, Culpit v. Roberts and Stacy v. Williams (two 1969 U.S. District Court Cases initiated by two chapters of the Young Democratic Club after the University of Mississippi banned Aaron Henry and Charles Evers from speaking on campus), Voter Education Project, James O. Eastland, Al Gore, Arthur Schlesinger, William Winter, Thad Cochran, James Meredith, U.S. Representative John Brademas of Indiana, U.S. Senator James W. Fulbright of Arkansas, U.S. Senator Adlai Stevenson III of Illinois, Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, Hugh White, U.S. Senator Estes Kefauver of Tennessee, President Harry Truman, Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, U.S. Department of Commerce Community Relations Service, U.S. Civil Rights Commission, J.P. Coleman, Rubel Phillips, and Brooks Hays (56 boxes).  A selection of material from this collection is available in a digital collection.

Frank E. Smith Campaign Broadsides. Titled "Friends of Frank E. Smith Want to Ask Jamie Whitten Some Questions," one broadside poses a series of questions regarding U.S. Representative Whitten's involvement with Billie Sol Estes, a Texas financier and the object of several political scandals. Paid for by the "Lafayette County Friends of Frank Smith," the second broadside accuses Whitten of sending his children to integrated schools. Location: Oversized Small Manuscripts Broadsheets & Broadsides (2 folders).

LePoint Smith Collection.  This small collection includes the following: a 1928 resolution by the Mississippi Federation of Woman's Clubs advocating the inclusion of parliamentary procedure on the education curriculum and a typed response by Mississippi Representative H.S. Stausel; and two documents concerning the 1954 Extraordinary Session proposed state constitutional amendment to enable the Mississippi legislature to abolish the public-school system if the Supreme Court's order for desegregation proceeds.  Location: Small Manuscripts 95-4 (1 folder). These papers have been digitized as part of the Civil Rights Archive.

The Southern Reposure.  Racial moderate P.D. East (newspaper editor of the Petal Paper) and novelist William Faulkner wrote the only issue of this 1956 Mississippi lampoon newspaper geared towards college students. The headline "Eastland Elected by NAAAPZ as Outstanding Man of Year" poked fun of U.S. Senator James O. Eastland.  Location: Small Manuscripts 82-1 (1 folder).

Southern Women Legislators Collection.  Donated in 1998, this collection contains research files compiled by Joanne V. Hawks and Carolyn Ellis on twentieth-century women legislators in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, North Carolina, and Virginia. The files contain biographical information, newspaper clippings, taped interviews and transcripts.  16 boxes.  Patrons should provide notice at least two business days prior to prospective visits so that staff may transfer requested boxes from the Library Annex (an off-site facility) to the Special Collection Reading Room. Please contact Special Collections at (662) 915-7408 to specify requested material.  The oral histories are available as a digital collection.

Speaker Ban Law Collection.  Material related to the approval/rejection process for outside speakers on the University of Mississippi campus from 1961 through 1974.  Data compiled on prospective speakers includes information on Martin Luther King Jr. and Charles Evers, among others.  6 boxes.

State Documents Vertical Files.  Miscellaneous publications and handouts produced by Mississippi government agencies dating from 1961 to 2009.  1 box.

The State Legislature of Mississippi.  Circa late 1990s, this pamphlet describes the state legislature and the process by which a bill becomes a law.  Location: Small Manuscripts 2000-1 (1 folder).

Alfred H. Stone Collection.  Alfred H. Stone served in the Mississippi Legislature from 1916 to 1923. In 1932, he was named Tax Commissioner and chairman of the State Tax Commission, a post he held until his death in 1955. Stone served as president of the Mississippi Historical Society in 1912-13 and wrote a number of articles on race. The collection includes a resolution from the Birmingham States' Rights Conference in 1948 (Box 1, Folder 7); nineteenth- and twentieth-century newspaper clippings concerning African Americans & politics (Box 1, Folders 4,8, & 9; and Box 3); early twentieth-century reprints and pamphlets on that same topic ( Box 2); and Stone's certificates of appointment to the chairmanship of the State Tax Commission (Box 4).  4 boxes.

Alfred H. Stone Papers.  The Alfred H. Stone Papers contain a number of typed manuscripts on historical topics including "The Political Affects of the [Civil] War" (Folder 11).  Also among the papers is a nine-page typed draft letter dated 17 July 1937 from the State Tax Commission (Stone, John F. Frierson, & Bruce Van Zandt) to Mississippi Governor Hugh White, regarding the collection and administration of excise taxes (Folder 15). Location: Small Manuscripts 76-7 (13 folders).  These papers have been digitized as part of the Civil Rights Archive.

George M. Street Collection.  George Street was an administrator at the University of Mississippi who held a variety of positions between 1949 and 1985. His papers include materials related to Robert F. Kennedy's 1966 speech on campus (Box 19).  Box 23 contains several reel-to-reel recordings of court hearings on civil rights issues.  28 boxes.

Jack N. Stuart Letter.  Dated 3 June 1983, Jack N. Stuart of Morton, Mississippi conveys to George Payne in three closely typed pages his impression of the upcoming state gubernatorial race between Mike Sturdivant, Bill Allain, and Evelyn Gandy as well as his opinions on the administrations of former governors.  Location: Small Manuscripts 82-1 (1 folder).

Charles Stubblefield Collection. The Stubblefield Collection contains photocopies of six typed letters from U.S. Senator Theodore G. Bilbo to Dr. J.H. Windham in Ecru, Mississippi dating between 1935 and 1943. The 1935 letter discusses the 1935 gubernatorial contest between Hugh White and Dennis Murphree in detail.  Location: Small Manuscripts 76-8 (2 folders).

Steven H. Stubbs Collection.  Steven H. Stubbs is the author of the Civil War history Duty, Honor, Valor: The Story of the 11th Mississippi Infantry Regiment (2000).  Comprised of research material amassed for that book, the Stubbs Collection includes correspondence with National Park Service officials (Box 20, Folder 10).  26 boxes.

William Howard Taft Banquet Program.  This 1909 program is for a banquet thrown by the City of Jackson, Mississippi for U.S. President William Howard Taft.  Location: Small Manuscripts 95-1 (1 folder).

Lily Thompson Collection.  At one point in the early twentieth-century, Lily Thompson served as president of the Mississippi Woman Suffrage Association. Her collection consists of correspondence, documents, and publications related to this organization and the issue of suffrage (3 boxes).  Selections of the collection are available online in the Mississippi Woman Suffrage Association Digital Collection.

Kevin Pierce Thornton Manuscript.  Yale College student Kevin Pierce Thornton wrote his 1981 senior essay "The Burden of History and the 'New Force' in Mississippi Politics" following an internship in Governor William Winter's office.  Location: Small Manuscripts 95-2 (1 folder).

Lucy Turnbull Collection.  Secretary of the Oxford chapter of the American Association of University Professors in the 1960s, Lucy Turnbull was also a member of the Mississippi Council on Human Relations.  Among the MCHR materials in the collection is a circular letter from the organization with enclosed transcripts of two speeches by Governor John Bell Williams on the 1970 Jackson State University riot.  2 boxes.

United Daughters of the Confederacy/Sons of Confederate Veterans Collection.  This collection consists largely of publications and programs from the UDC, as well as a 1958 letter from the state SCV organization to the Mississippi legislature on the restoration of Jefferson Davis's home Beauvoir.  1 box.

United States v. Mississippi Interrogatory Answers Collection.  Consists of an excerpt (pages 387-1276) from the Record of Appeal in this 1962 voting rights suit.  Provides detailed data and sources on the difficulties African American faced in exercising their rights to vote between 1890 and 1963.  Since the subject of literacy was an important component, it also includes information on the segregated school systems in the state; the pages are available as a digital collection.

University Archives Photograph Collection.  This assortment of photographs related to the university contains images of Hugh White, British Prime Minister Clement Atlee, Ross Barnett, Thad Cochran, J.P. Coleman, John Doar, Wall Doxey, L.Q.C. Lamar, James Gordon, Martin Hegwood, James Howry, Jacob Thompson, Hubert Humphrey, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Paul B. Johnson Jr., George Bush, Carroll Gartin, John Kyle, Walter Sillers, J.M. Stone, Larry Speakes, & the Board of Trustees.  Although photocopies of the images are readily available, patrons should provide notice at least two business days prior to prospective visits so that staff may transfer original photographs from the Library Annex (an off-site facility) to the Special Collection Reading Room.  Please contact Special Collections at (662) 915-7408 to specify requested material.  Selected University Archives photographs are available via a digital collection.

University of Mississippi Buildings & Grounds Collection.  This collection contains miscellaneous material related to the buildings and campus of the University of Mississippi. Over the course of its history, the university has paid tribute to several Mississippi statesmen by naming buildings in their honor, including Thad Cochran, Paul B. Johnson, Trent Lott, and Jamie L. Whitten. The collection also includes the remarks of Governor Hugh White at the 1955 dedication of Carrier Hall.  4 boxes.

University of Mississippi Conference Collection.  Containing pamphlets and other material related to various conferences held at the University of Mississippi, this collection includes items related to a 1954 Mississippi Congress of Mayors, several different Mississippi Highway Conferences, and various state judiciary meetings.  2 boxes.

University Small Manuscripts.  This collection includes material related to the following academic and administrative departments at the University of Mississippi: School of Law which has several items related to the judiciary and state politicians; Political Science; Office of Civil Defense Coordinator; Public Policy Research Center; Mississippi Judicial College; and the Public Officials/Congressional Archives. Paul B. Johnson letters appear in the Faculty files of Vic Coulter and H.L. Franklin. It also includes items related to the following individuals: Judge T.A. Bickerstaff, Thad Cochran, Trent Lott, Mississippi Supreme Court Justice William Henry Cook, Federal Bureau of Investigations Special Agent Webb Burke, Carroll Gartin, Governor Lee Maurice Russell, Board of Trustees, Mississippi Public Officials Day, an anti-evolution bill in Mississippi legislature, cassette recording & transcription of Robert F. Kennedy's speech on campus in 1966, transcription of Edward M. Kennedy's 1978 speech on campus, transcription of Vice President Hubert Humphrey's 1968 speech on campus, a 1937 letter from Franklin D. Roosevelt to the editor of the campus newspaper, & a 1967 letter from Judge Tom Clark.  49 boxes.

Vertical File/Clippings Collection. This collection of clippings includes several political topics related to Mississippi, including the following files on specific politicians, federal programs, and state agencies: Advertising Commission; A & I Board (Agriculture & Industries Board; Air Bases (Keesler & Meridian); BAWI (Balance Agriculture with Industry); Biography (general A-Z plus Theodore G. Bilbo, Mr. & Mrs. Jefferson Davis, Pat Harrison, L.Q.C. Lamar, Sargent S. Prentiss, John Sharp Williams); Civil Rights (1964 Mississippi Gubernatorial Election); Colleges & Universities (Board of Trustees, Politics); Counties (general and individual); County Employees; Employment Securities Commission; Fish & Game; Game and Fish Commission; Government; Governors (general, Mansion, Ross Barnett, J.P. Coleman, Cliff Finch, Kirk Fordice, Paul Johnson, Ray Mabus, Bill Waller, William M. Winter); Insurance (Mississippi State Rating Bureau Forms); J.P. Courts; Judiciary; Land Commission; Law Enforcement; LEAP Project; Legal Services; Legislature (chronology plus Education, Strip Mining); Medicaid Commission; NASA; Natchez Trace; Nuclear Tests; Politicians (general plus Thomas Abernethy, Bidwell Adams, Ross Barnett, Theodore G. Bilbo, David Bowen, Bill Burgin, Gil Carmichael, William Colmer, Sam Dale, Wayne Dowdy, James O. Eastland, Charles Evers, Evelyn Gandy, Carroll Gartin, John Hinson, Paul B. Johnson, Heber Ladner, Trent Lott, Sam Lumpkin, Ray Maybus, G.V. "Sonny" Montgomery, D.S. Russell, Walter Sillers, Bernie Smith, John Stennis, Prentiss Walker, Bill Waller, Hugh White, Jamie Whitten, John Bell Williams, Arthur Winstead); Politics; Politics & Government; Public Health; Public Service Commission; Public Utilities; Public Welfare; Reapportionment; Republican Party; Sixteenth Section Lands; Social Security; Soil Conservation; State Agencies; State Boundary; State Building Commission; State Capitol Building; State Employees; State Health Board; State Planning Commission; Taxation; Teacher Retirement; TENN-TOM; University -- Politics; University -- Political Science Department; University -- Public Administration Bureau; Water & Fish Commission; & Waterways.

Vice-Chancellors Collection.  Dating from the 1950s through the 1970s, this collection contains the files from the Vice Chancellor's office at the University of Mississippi, including the Agricultural & Industry Board 1955-58, Agricultural Research Service 1969-73, Air & Water Pollution Control Commission 1972, School of Business & Government 1964-73, Chancellor Narrative for Annual Report to Legislature 1970-73, Civil Rights Compliance Committee 1965-72, Federal-State Technology Study Project, Health Care Administration, Robert Kennedy, NASA Proposals, Political Science 1966-75, & Public Health Service 1969-72.  46 boxes.

Edgar W. Waugh Collection.  A University of Mississippi alumnus, the papers of this Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Eastern Michigan University include a lengthy typed letter dated 25 January 1991 from Waugh reminiscing about Mississippi governors Theodore G. Bilbo and Ross Barnett (particularly a speech given by Barnett at the University of Michigan which was disrupted by black protestors and a later speech at Eastern Michigan University). In a typed manuscript, Waugh describes how as editor of the University of Mississippi campus newspaper in 1922-1923 he became embroiled in a controversy involving Governor Lee M. Russell and the state ban on Greek fraternities at state institutions of higher education. Location: Small Manuscripts 91-1 (1 folder).

Western Union Telegram Collection. This collection contains copies of all telegrams sent by the Oxford, Mississippi Western Union Telegram station in September 1962. Most of the messages concerned the developing integration crisis at the University of Mississippi. Recipients included President John F. Kennedy, Governor Ross R. Barnett, and the Board of Trustees of the Institutions of Higher Learning.  6 boxes. This collection has been partially digitized.

Jamie L. Whitten Collection.  A Democrat, Whitten represented Mississippi in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1941 to 1995, where he served as co-chair of the Joint Committee on Budget Control and chair of the Committee on Appropriations.  Whitten was a member of the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1931 to 1932.  Most of the Jamie L. Whitten Collection is open to researchers, although portions of the papers are closed while the archives continues to process the collection.  Patrons should provide notice at least two business days prior to prospective visits so that staff may transfer requested boxes from the Library Annex (an off-site facility) to the Special Collection Reading Room. Please contact Special Collections at (662) 915-7408 to specify requested material.  The recordings are now available as a digital collection.

Jamie L. Whitten Speech.  This collection consists of the typescript of U.S. Representative Whitten's speech to the National Rural Electrification Cooperative Association in Las Vegas, Nevada in 1978.  Location: Small Manuscripts 78-4 (1 folder).

William M. Whittington Collection.  A Mississippi Democrat, William M. Whittington served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1925 to 1951, where he sat on the Committee on Public Works and chaired the Committee on Flood Control. Whittington was a member of the Greenwood, Mississippi city council from 1907 to 1911, a member of the Mississippi Senate from 1916-1920 and 1923-24, and a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1920, 1928, 1936, 1940, and 1948. Dating from 1897 to 1962, the Whittington Collection includes his congressional papers.  316 boxes.  Patrons should provide notice at least two business days prior to prospective visits so that staff may transfer requested boxes from the Library Annex (an off-site facility) to the Special Collection Reading Room. Please contact Special Collections at (662) 915-7408 to specify requested material.

Lena W. Wiley Broadsheet.  Lena W. Wiley, an African American, ran as the 1995 Republican candidate for the Northern District Justice Court Judge in Oxford, Mississippi.  Location: Small Manuscripts 95-2 (1 folder).

John Sharp Williams Collection.  A Mississippi Democrat, John Sharp Williams served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1893 to 1909, where he was minority leader and chairman of the Committee on Party Leaders. Williams sat in the U.S. Senate from 1911 to 1923, where he was on the Committee on the Library, the Committee on the University of the United States, and chairman of the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses. The Williams Collection contains the research materials accumulated by his biographer George Coleman Osborn. Dating from 1887 to 1932, many of the letters are copies of originals. The collection also includes several boxes of material related to James K. Vardaman.  11 boxes.  Patrons should provide notice at least two business days prior to prospective visits so that staff may transfer requested boxes from the Library Annex (an off-site facility) to the Special Collection Reading Room. Please contact Special Collections at (662) 915-7408 to specify requested material.

Yalobusha County Historical Society Collection.  The March 1979 newsletter of the Yalobusha County Historical Society includes a lengthy summary of an address by Charles Chrenshaw on his grand uncle, Mississippi Governor & U.S. Senator James K. Vardaman. The April 1979 issue includes an account of Water Valley resident Governor Earl Brewer, as well as stories by Fonnie B. Ladd, a member of U.S. Senator Theodore G. Bilbo's congressional staff, about Bilbo and U.S. Senator Pat Harrison. The May 1979 issue contains more information on Vardaman's grandfather, and the September 1979 issue includes reprints of newspaper articles by Mississippi Governor Dennis Murphree on the history of Calhoun County.  Location: Small manuscripts 94-2.

Tyrone K. Yates/John F. Kennedy Collection.  Collection consists primarily of campaign ephemera and memorabilia related to President John F. Kennedy.  However, it also contains a number of items related to other presidents and political campaigns.  6 boxes.  Patrons should provide notice at least two business days prior to prospective visits so that staff may transfer requested boxes from the Library Annex (an off-site facility) to the Special Collection Reading Room. Please contact Special Collections at (662) 915-7408 to specify requested material.

Fred R. Young Speech.  This carbon typed manuscript is entitled "Statement made by Fred W. Young, Representing the National Americanism Commission of the American Legion on Federal Aid to Education, before the House Subcommittee on Labor and Education, Washington, D.C., April 29, 1947."  Location: Small Manuscripts 95-3 (1 folder).

"The Yuppies of Mississippi" Documents. This collection of documents relates to the Mississippi Supreme Court decision to affirm the conviction of Milton V. Pharr on misdemeanor violations of state game laws. Pharr had trespassed on land in order to "spotlight" does out of season. In his eighteen-page judgment, Justice James Robertson quoted from novelist William Faulkner's works.  Location: Small Manuscripts 91-1 (1 folder).

J.C. Zeller Collection.  Julius Christian Zeller was a professor of Philosophy and Sociology at Illinois Wesleyan University, president of the University of Puget Sound, and resident of Yazoo County, Mississippi. The Zeller collection contains two broadsides from Zeller's congressional campaign in 1924 that provide a transcript of his speeches. Location: Small Manuscripts 95-4.