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From the Constance Savery Papers. A letter from Constance Savery and her sister Christine to JoAnne Dawe. The letter regards a word about Christine's health and a trip to the hospital.

From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of SNCC Field Secretary Sandy Leigh (New York City), Director of the Hattiesburg project, lecturing on the MFDP to Freedom School students in the sanctuary of True Light Baptist Church. He illustrates his lecture by writing on a blackboard: "Why MFDP Challenge. 1. Does not represent people. 2. Does not support National Democratic Party. 3. Unpledged electors. 4. Negroes not fr[ee]?] to ta[ke part?]."

From the Alexander Melvorne Jackson Papers. A letter from Alexander M. Jackson to his wife, Cordelia Jackson, regarding his arrival in Oxford and being appointed Special District Attorney by the court. The letter also regards returning home and the conditions of the roads in Mississippi.

Oral history.; Dr. Richard McGinnis, a faculty member at Tougaloo College, first came to Mississippi as a graduate student participating in a joint Harvard, Yale, and Columbia universities recruitment effort directed at African American students in Mississippi. Dr. Ernst Borinski recruited McGinnis and Dr. John Dittmer hired him as a member of the science faculty in 1969. McGinnis married an African American woman in the late 1970s, and he and his wife lived in Edwards, Mississippi, a community that was 75 percent black in the early 1980s, and discusses their lives as an interracial couple in the Deep South. McGinnis discusses transitions in higher education, as well as unintended consequences of the integration of the public school system in Mississippi. He also explores racial relations among the faculty at Tougaloo, as well as student militancy.

From the Kate Greenaway Papers. Pencil sketch produced for a version of Hans Christian Andersen's "What the Moon Saw." (28 x 22.5 cm.) Boy standing in an enclosure holding a stick. The book was never published.

From the Mississippiana and Rare Books Collection. Biennial Report containing information regarding prison activities, work schedules, and financial needs of the Mississippi State Penitentiary from 1905-1907.

From the McLoughlin Brothers Papers. Pen and ink outline illustrations of people, from the unidentified illustrations series of the McLoughlin Brother Papers. The McLoughlin Brothers Papers contain manuscripts, typescripts, galleys, correspondence, photographs, dummies, illustrations, color separations, proofs, and production material dating from 1854 to the early 1950's

From the Mississippiana Vertical File. Copy of the U.S. Bill of Rights provided by the Patriotic American Youth.

From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Vic Runtz. President Richard Nixon stands in a corridor just outside the partially open door of a room. He holds a doctor's bag with monogrammed RMN (Richard Milhous Nixon) in his left hand. In his right hand he holds an ice pack labeled "Anti-inflation measures." He says to a man in the corridor,"The patient is a bit feverish, we'll keep applying ice packs." Artist Runtz's signature cat is seen about to enter the sick room carrying a flower. The cartoon caption reads: "State of the union."

Oral history.; Katherine Carr Esters was born on April 9, 1928 in rural Attala County, Mississippi. Esters grew up with racial segregation and attended school at Mary Holmes Seminary High School during the Jim Crow era. In one incident in 1946, Esters was riding the Tri State Bus that ran from Columbus to Durant, Mississippi. As she sat in the white section and refused to move, the driver threatened to have her jailed. Esters wrote a letter of complaint to the bus company about the conditions on public transport. As a result, the curtain that separated the two sections of the bus was removed, and African Americans were no longer required to sit on the back seat. Her career was in medical administration, from which she retired in 1972, returning to Kosciusko.

Oral history.; Interview conducted on June 12, 2010 at Church of the Redeemer in Biloxi, Mississippi. Youngblood describes conditions of growing up in Biloxi and the influence of the Biloxi Beach Wade-Ins on her life and in the life of the community.

Oral history.; Burris Leon Dunn was born in the Oak Ridge Community of Warren County, Mississippi on June 30, 1908, the son of Dr. Robert Burris Dunn and Ruby Richardson-Dunn. He graduated from Robert E. Lee High School in Jackson, Mississippi. Dunn began a career in newspapers and printing as a boy, eventually opening his own printing house in Jackson in 1932-33. He also farmed and operated as a real estate broker. Dunn was married to the late Marvis Franklin Dunn and has three sons--Burris L. Jr., Allan C., and Ronald K.

From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of voter registration volunteer Johanna 'Johnnie' Winchester (Baltimore, Maryland; a student at Cornell University) reading a piece of paper. In the background is SNCC Field Secretary Sandy Leigh (New York City), Director of the Hattiesburg project.

From the Frobenius (Courtney L.) Vietnam Research Collection. Photograph of two unidentified men, one being in uniform, posing for the camera.