Higgs, William L.
- Authoritative Name:
- Higgs, William L.
- Biography:
- Higgs was a lawyer and civil rights activist working in Mississippi in the early 1960s. Along with three other individuals, Higgs brought a lawsuit against the Mississippi Sovereignty Commission. -- Federal Law and Southern Order: Racial Violence and Constitutional Conflict in the Post-Brown South, 1987. He served as the lawyer for SNCC and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party.
- Alternate Names:
- Higgs, Bill
- Associated Subjects:
- Higgs, William L.
- Archival Collections And Reference Resources:
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Letter: Atlanta, Georgia, to James A. Dombrowski, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1962 June 5
- Creator:
- Moses, Robert Parris
- Date of Original:
- 1962-06-05
- Collection:
- Sovereignty Commission Online
- Contributing Institution:
- Mississippi. Department of Archives and History
Letter: to Jim Dombrowski, 1963 July 19
- Creator:
- Braden, Anne, 1924-2006
- Date of Original:
- 1963-07-19
- Collection:
- Sovereignty Commission Online
- Contributing Institution:
- Mississippi. Department of Archives and History
Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph of William L. Higgs, Jackson, Mississippi, 1962 July 5
- Creator:
- Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission
- Date of Original:
- 1962-07-05
- Collection:
- Sovereignty Commission Online
- Contributing Institution:
- Mississippi. Department of Archives and History
William Higgs
- Creator:
- Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission
- Date of Original:
- 1994/2006
- Collection:
- Sovereignty Commission Online
- Contributing Institution:
- Mississippi. Department of Archives and History