- Collection:
- Integration of the University of Mississippi
- Title:
- Police wearing gas masks and steel helmets
- Creator:
- Mississippi Highway Patrol
- Date of Original:
- 1962-09/1962-10
- Subject:
- University of Mississippi--History
Civil rights--Mississippi--Oxford
College integration--Mississippi--Oxford--History
University of Mississippi--Riots
Soldiers--Mississippi--Oxford
Mississippi--Race relations
Race riots--Mississippi--Oxford
Federal-state controversies--Mississippi
Government, Resistance to--Mississippi--Oxford - People:
- Birdsong, T. B.
Meredith, James, 1933- - Location:
- United States, Mississippi, Lafayette County, Oxford, 34.3665, -89.51925
- Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Colonel T.B. Birdsong, commander of the Mississippi Highway Patrol sitting at a desk
The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata. - Local Identifier:
- MSHighwayPatrol_b1_f34
- Metadata URL:
- https://egrove.olemiss.edu/integr_photos/129
- Rights Holder:
- Images in this collection are for personal use only. For publication and professional uses, please contact the Archives and Special Collections at the University of Mississippi Libraries.
- Additional Rights Information:
- Images in this collection are for personal use only. For publication and professional uses, please contact the Archives and Special Collections at the University of Mississippi Libraries.
- Contributing Institution:
- John Davis Williams Library. Department of Archives and Special Collections
- Rights:
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