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“Montgomery Bus Boycott”	Records that have the exact phrase Montgomery Bus Boycott
Albany OR Augusta +integration	Records with the word integration that also contain the words Albany and/or Augusta
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Clear All Rights In Copyright Contributing Institution John Davis Williams Library. Department of Archives and Special Collections

Description:: Forty-three interviews of Freedom Riders conducted during the Fortieth Anniversary of the rides in Jackson, Mississippi.
Date of Original:: 2001
Contributing Institution:: John Davis Williams Library. Department of Archives and Special Collections

Description:: Audio recording of 1966 speech by Robert F. Kennedy at the University of Mississippi
Date of Original:: 1966-03-18
Contributing Institution:: John Davis Williams Library. Department of Archives and Special Collections

Description:: James Meredith's correspondence related to his 1962 enrollment in the University of Mississippi.
Date of Original:: 1962
Contributing Institution:: John Davis Williams Library. Department of Archives and Special Collections

Description:: Images, documents, and correspondence related to the 1962 enrollment of James H. Meredith to the University of Mississippi.
Date of Original:: 1962
Contributing Institution:: John Davis Williams Library. Department of Archives and Special Collections

Description:: Photographs and a scrapbook belonging to Sidna Brower Mitchell, editor of The Mississippian, the University of Mississippi's student newspaper documenting the university's integration in 1962
Date of Original:: 1962
Contributing Institution:: John Davis Williams Library. Department of Archives and Special Collections

Description:: The United States v. Mississippi Interrogatory Answers Collection consists entirely of one large section (pages 387-1276) from the Record of Appeal in the case United States v. Mississippi (cited as United States v. Mississippi, 380, U.S. 128, 1965). This digital collection contains the answers by the United States government to interrogatories propounded by the state of Mississippi and other defendants.
Date of Original:: 1962/1965
Contributing Institution:: John Davis Williams Library. Department of Archives and Special Collections

Description:: Magazines, newspaper clippings, and pamphlets published by various Citizens Councils in Mississippi from 1952 to 1986 detailing their views on race and segregation.
Date of Original:: 1952/1986
Contributing Institution:: John Davis Williams Library. Department of Archives and Special Collections
Sensitive Content:: Some of the images and language that appear in this digital collection depict prejudices that are not condoned by the University of Mississippi. This content is being presented as historical documents to aid in the understanding of both American history and the history of the University of Mississippi. The University Creed speaks to our current deeply held values, and the availability of this content should not be taken as an endorsement of previous attitudes or behavior.

Description:: Collection containing over 4700 Kodachrome slides and black-and-white photographs documenting the following Mississippi counties in the late 1940s and 1950s: Benton, Clay, Grenada, Holmes, Jones, Marshall, Panola, Prentiss, Quitman, Sunflower, Tallahatchie, Union, and Yalobusha. The collection includes 727 images of the University of Mississippi, most of the University images do not have corresponding dates but document the campus and culture prior to the 1962 Integration.
Date of Original:: 1949/1962
Contributing Institution:: John Davis Williams Library. Department of Archives and Special Collections

Description:: A Democrat, Carroll Gartin served three terms as Mississippi's Lieutenant Governor (1952-1956, 1956-1960, and 1964-1966). He lost a 1953 campaign against incumbent James O. Eastland for the U.S. Senate and a 1959 race against Ross Barnett to become governor of the state. In 1966, Gartin announced his intention to run for governor again but died of a heart attack in December of that year.
Date of Original:: 1946/1964
Contributing Institution:: John Davis Williams Library. Department of Archives and Special Collections

Description:: The collection consists entirely of the typed minutes of the Mississippi State Textbook Rating and Purchasing Board (1940-46), the Mississippi State Textbook Purchasing Board (1946-1981), and the Mississippi State Textbook Procurement Commission (1981-1987).
Date of Original:: 1940/1987
Contributing Institution:: John Davis Williams Library. Department of Archives and Special Collections

Description:: The James W. Silver Digital Collection contains news clippings and pamphlets that document the controversy surrounding Silver’s publicly-expressed support for ending segregation, particularly after the publication of Mississippi: The Closed Society.
Date of Original:: 1928/1986
Contributing Institution:: John Davis Williams Library. Department of Archives and Special Collections

Description:: The Mississippi Education Collection contains articles, newsletters, and miscellaneous documents related to education in Mississippi.
Date of Original:: 1924/2000
Contributing Institution:: John Davis Williams Library. Department of Archives and Special Collections

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