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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 State Mississippi Type Text Rights In Copyright

Description:: Online exhibit on the National Council of Negro Women's Wednesdays in Mississippi Project.
Date of Original:: 2006/2020
Contributing Institution:: University of Houston

Description:: Oral history interviews conducted in 1983 and 1984 with Sam Bowers, Mississippi-based segregationist.
Date of Original:: 1983/1984
Contributing Institution:: Mississippi. Department of Archives and History

Description:
Date of Original:: 1964/1965
Contributing Institution:: Jean and Alexander Heard Library (Vanderbilt University)

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:: 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:: Correspondence, notes, publicity flyers, scrapbook pages, news clippings, and other materials concerning the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and Byron M. Baer's experience in the 1961 Freedom Rides to Jackson, Mississippi.
Date of Original:: 1960/1969
Contributing Institution:: Mississippi. Department of Archives and History

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:: 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:: Civil rights related materials including correspondence, business records, diaries, newspaper clippings, and photographs primarily from the 1950's through the 1960's.
Date of Original:: 1950/1969
Contributing Institution:: University of Southern Mississippi. Libraries

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:: Civil rights related oral histories including primarily discussing events in the 1950s and 1960s.
Date of Original:: 1940/1970
Contributing Institution:: University of Southern Mississippi. Center for Oral History and Cultural Heritage

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