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From the Forrest County Poll Tax Receipts Collection. A scan of the front cover of a Forrest County Poll Tax Receipts booklet. The receipts are for names A through K at the Hawkins Junior High School precinct.
1964
From the Leflore County Sample Ballot Collection. A copy of a sample ballot distributed by the Leflore County Citizens Council to registered voters.
1971
From the William Arthur Winstead Papers. A copy of a speech by Arthur Winstead given in the House of Representatives on May 25, 1943. The speech regards an anti poll tax bill and Winstead's disagreement with it.
1943
From the Leesha Faulkner Civil Rights Collection. A list of results from a telephone survey asking if people had paid their poll tax.
29 January 1958
From the Anthony J. Harris Civil Rights Memoir Collection. A personal recollection of the civil rights movement in Hattiesburg, Mississippi by Dr. Anthony J. Harris.
1998
From the Douglas Tiberiis White Folks Project Collection. A letter from a parent (signed K.T.) of a Freedom Summer volunteer to the United States Justice Department regarding Freedom Summer volunteers and their safety.
29 June 1964
From the Legacy of Dr. Joseph A. Greene, founding Dean of the College of Business and Economic Development Collection. A sepia colored photograph of the Greene Family.
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From the Legacy of Dr. Joseph A. Greene, founding Dean of the College of Business and Economic Development Collection. Two photographs of Joseph A. Greene as a young man in his basketball uniform, posing for pictures.
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From the Legacy of Dr. Joseph A. Greene, founding Dean of the College of Business and Economic Development Collection. A newspaper clipping highlighting Dr. Joseph A. Greene and his involvement on USM's campus.
14 June 1962
From the Legacy of Dr. Joseph A. Greene, founding Dean of the College of Business and Economic Development Collection. A headshot of Dr. Joseph A. Greene.
Oral history.; Interview with Jasper Neely conducted on February 19, 2000. Jasper Neely was born in Grenada, Mississippi in 1938. He experienced racism and discrimination at an early age. At the age of 25 Neely got involved in the movement to change conditions for African Americans. He studied at Mississippi Valley State University and was hired as a stock manager at the Liberty Cash Supermarket as their first black employee. In 1979 he was asked to become the President of the local NAACP, and when he did, was fired from his job. He filed suit against his employer which was settled out of court. He then began working full time for the NAACP. Neely was elected to Grenada City Council in 1977.
19 February 2000
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 7, 1993 with James Nix (born 1937). In 1966, Mr. Nix formed a civil rights activist group called the Spirit. This group agitated for civil rights in Hattiesburg and served as bodyguards for local civil rights leaders.
07 March 1993
Oral history.; U.Z. Nunnally was born in 1945 and grew up in rural Mississippi. His civil rights activities took him out of rural Mississippi and around the southeast as well as to California and China. He grew up on a plantation, one of seven children in a sharecropping family. In high school he became involved in civil rights advocacy when Freedom Riders lived in his town. He spent time in COFO's Freedom House, in Freedom School, door-to-door canvassing for voter registration, was arrested many times for his activities, filed a lawsuit to avoid serving in the Vietnam War, and at the time of this interview was looking forward to retirement as one of San Francisco's bus drivers.
13 January 2001
