Date of Original
1928/1986

Subject
Silver family--Correspondence
University of Mississippi
Mississippi
Mississippi--Race relations
Education, Higher--Mississippi
Mississippi--Social life and customs
College integration--Mississippi--Oxford
Southern Historical Association
Academic freedom
Civil rights movements--Mississippi--Oxford--History--20th century
Mississippi--Politics and government
Mississippi--Politics and government
Freedom of speech--Mississippi

People
Silver, James W. (James Wesley), 1907-1988
Meredith, James, 1933-
Barnett, Ross R. (Ross Robert), 1898-1987

Location
United Kingdom, England, London, 51.50853, -0.12574
United States, District of Columbia, Washington, 38.89511, -77.03637
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
United States, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, 37.98869, -84.47772
United States, Louisiana, East Baton Rouge Parish, Baton Rouge, 30.44332, -91.18747
United States, Massachusetts, Middlesex County, Cambridge, 42.3751, -71.10561
United States, Minnesota, Ramsey County, Saint Paul, 44.94441, -93.09327
United States, Mississippi, 32.75041, -89.75036
United States, Mississippi, Hinds County, Jackson, 32.29876, -90.18481
United States, Mississippi, Lafayette County, Oxford, 34.3665, -89.51925
United States, Mississippi, Lafayette County, University, 34.36594, -89.52536
United States, New York, New York County, New York, 40.7142691, -74.0059729
United States, Tennessee, Davidson County, Nashville, 36.16589, -86.78444
United States, Tennessee, Shelby County, Memphis, 35.14953, -90.04898

Type
StillImage
Sound
Text

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. Also included is professional and personal correspondence between Silver and others—including prominent figures such as Albert Gore, Robert Kennedy, Alfred Knopf, Malcolm X, and Arthur Schlesinger—and 31 “Reports From Britain,” articles written by Silver while teaching at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, on a variety of sociopolitical topics.

Metadata URL
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/jws_race/

Language
eng

Contributing Institution
John Davis Williams Library. Department of Archives and Special Collections

Rights