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Clear All Subject Civil rights--Mississippi Rights In Copyright Topics Peoples & Cultures

Description:: From his early exposure to racial segregation as a child and solider in World War 2, to his long career in politics during the rise of the Civil Rights Movement, the story of William Winter is one of courage and leadership set during some of the most tumultuous times in American history.
Date of Original:: 2014
Contributing Institution:: Southern Documentary Project

Description:: Photographs and files of the Mississippi Sovereignty Commission, the state's official counter civil rights agency from 1956 to 1973.
Date of Original:: 1956/1973
Contributing Institution:: Mississippi. Department of Archives and History

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

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