- Collection:
- The Scrapbooks
- Title:
- Civil Rights Movement scrapbooks. Mississippi events volume 2
- Publisher:
- Birmingham, Ala. : Birmingham Public Library
- Date of Original:
- 1962/1966
- Subject:
- College integration--Mississippi--Oxford
University of Mississippi--Riot, Sept 30, 1962
African Americans--Civil rights--Mississippi--Greenwood
Alabama
African Americans--Civil rights--Mississippi
African Americans--Civil Rights--United States - People:
- Meredith, James, 1933-
- Location:
- United States, Southern States, 33.346678, -84.119434
- Medium:
- newspaper clippings
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Topics covered: University of Mississippi rioting; mob threatens Meredith during second week of classes; federal injunction bars state from halting desegregation; Civil Rights Commission investigator arrested in Greenwood; second black enrolled at the University of Mississippi; Meredith graduates; Medgar Evers slaying. These scrapbooks, compiled by librarians at the Birmingham Public Library, contain newspaper clippings relating to the Civil Rights Movement. The clippings are arranged in three subject areas: national civil rights events, Alabama events, and Mississippi events. The clippings are arranged chronologically within the subject areas.
- Metadata URL:
- http://cdm16044.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/BPLSB02/id/2516
- IIIF manifest:
- https://cdm16044.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/2/BPLSB02:2516/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- This material may be protected under Title 17 of the U. S. Copyright Law which governs the making of photocopies or reproductions of copyrighted materials. You may use the digitized material for private study, scholarship, or research.
- Contributing Institution:
- Birmingham Public Library (Ala.)
- Rights:
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