Items and Collections

Creator
Moncrief, Winfred H., 1923-

Date of Original
1950/1969

Subject
African American churches
African American clergy--Mississippi--Hattiesburg
African American nurses--Mississippi--Laurel
African American physicians--Mississippi--Laurel
African American women--Mississippi
African Americans--Civil rights--Mississippi--Hattiesburg
African Americans--Crimes against--Mississippi--Hattiesburg
African Americans--Mississippi
African Americans--Mississippi--Social conditions--20th century
African Americans--Suffrage
Architecture--Mississippi--20th century
Arson--Mississippi
Banks and banking--Mississippi--Hattiesburg
Bombings--Mississippi
Boy Scouts--Mississippi
Business--Mississippi--Hattiesburg
Civil rights demonstrations--Mississippi--Hattiesburg
Civil rights workers--Crimes against--Mississippi--Hattiesburg
Clergy
Courthouses--Mississippi--Hattiesburg
Drugstores--Mississippi--Hattiesburg
Elections--Mississippi
Fire departments--Mississippi--Hattiesburg
Flags
Flags--Mississippi
Flags--United States
Freemasons--Buildings--Mississippi--Hattiesburg
Funeral rites and ceremonies--Mississippi--Hattiesburg
Governors--Mississippi
Hate crimes--Mississippi--Hattiesburg
Historic buildings--Mississippi--Hattiesburg
Incendiary bombs
Jackson (Miss.)--Buildings, structures, etc.
Judges--Mississippi
Kelly Settlement (Hattiesburg, Miss.)--History
Ku Klux Klan (1915- )--Mississippi
Laurel (Miss.)--Social conditions
Libraries--Mississippi--Hattiesburg
Logging--Mississippi--Piney Woods (Region)--History
Mississippi Governor's Mansion (Jackson, Miss.)
Mississippi State Capitol (Jackson, Miss.)
Mississippi--Politics and government--1951-
Mississippi--Race relations
Murder--Mississippi--Forrest County
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People--Mississippi--Hattiesburg
Nuclear weapons--Testing
Nurses--Mississippi
Old Capitol (Jackson, Miss.)
Oxen
Parades--Mississippi--Jackson
Pharmacy--Mississippi
Physicians--Mississippi
Police--Mississippi--Hattiesburg
Poliomyelitis--Vaccination
Political campaigns--Mississippi
Polling places
Post office buildings--Mississippi
Primaries--Mississippi
Propaganda
Public buildings--Mississippi--Hattiesburg
Safety consultants
Salt domes--Mississippi
Sears, Roebuck and Company
Seismology--Instruments
Seismology--Research--United States
Sheriffs--Mississippi
Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company
Speeches, addresses, etc., American--Mississippi
Street scenes--Hattiesburg (Miss.)
Tatum Salt Dome (Lamar County, Miss.)
Tornadoes--Mississippi--Vicksburg
Trials--Mississippi--Hattiesburg
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
United States--Department of Defense
United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation
VELA Program (U.S.)
Vaccination of children--Mississippi
Vaccines--United States
Voter registration--Forrest County (Miss.)
Voter registration--Law and legislation--Mississippi
Voter registration--Mississippi--Prentiss
Voter registration--Southern States
Voting registrars
Voting--Mississippi--Hattiesburg

People
Barnett, Ross R. (Ross Robert), 1898-1987
Bowers, Samuel Holloway, 1924-2006
Dahmer, Vernon Ferdinand, 1908-1966
Hamer, Fannie Lou
Henry, Aaron, 1922-
Johnson, Paul B., 1916-1985
Johnson, Paul B., 1916-1985--Inauguration, 1964
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968--Assassination
Wallace, George C. (George Corley), 1919-1998

Location
United States, Mississippi, Forrest County, 31.18887, -89.25786
United States, Mississippi, Forrest County, Hattiesburg, 31.32712, -89.29034
United States, Mississippi, Hinds County, Jackson, 32.29876, -90.18481
United States, Mississippi, Jones County, 31.62256, -89.16879
United States, Mississippi, Jones County, Laurel, 31.69405, -89.13061
United States, Mississippi, Lamar County, 31.20587, -89.50869
United States, Mississippi, Warren County, 32.35723, -90.85201
United States, Mississippi, Warren County, Vicksburg, 32.35265, -90.87788

Medium
black-and-white photographs

Description
The Moncrief (Winfred) Photograph Collection consists of 890 original black-and-white negatives produced in the course of Moncrief's work as a photographer in the 1950s and 1960s. The photographs focus on Hattiesburg and the surrounding area, although there are pictures from other parts of the state. The photographs cover a variety of topics, including the 1953 Vicksburg tornado; Governor Paul B. Johnson Jr.'s 1963 election campaign and 1964 inauguration; nuclear tests at the Tatum Salt Dome in 1964; a 1965 Ku Klux Klan rally; and various civil rights activities, primarily in Hattiesburg. The civil rights activities include an Aaron Henry rally in October 1963; voter registration attempts and demonstrations in January-February 1964; August 1965 voter registration activities in Prentiss; events following the murder of Vernon Dahmer in January 1966 and its resulting trial; and demonstrations in April 1968 after the murder of Martin Luther King Jr., The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata.

Metadata URL
http://www.mdah.ms.gov/arrec/digital_archives/moncrief/

Rights Holder
Copyright: The electronic files in the Moncrief Photograph Collection are intended for public use in research, teaching, and private study in accordance with the provisions of the Fair Use clause of the United States Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.) and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Any use beyond that prescribed by Fair Use requires the permission of the copyright holder, the Mississippi Department of Archives and History. In addition, MDAH asks that each image used in a presentation, display, or publication be accompanied by a credit line that gives the name of this collection, the unique ID #, the name of this institution, and URL, according to the following formula:
Moncrief Photograph Collection, ID #, Mississippi Department of Archives & History, [http://www.mdah.state.ms.us]
Publicity and Privacy Rights:
MDAH alerts the user to the issue of publicity and privacy rights of subjects pictured in these images. Distinct from copyright, which concerns the creator/owner of the intellectual content, publicity and/or privacy rights apply to individuals visible in photographs who did not sign a contract or release form giving the photographer the legal right to use his/her image. Publicity and privacy rights also differ from copyright in that there are no exemptions for Fair Use or Educational purposes. These rights are not regulated by federal law but by state statute and common law. When using images from this collection it is the patron's responsibility to determine whether privacy and publicity rights issues may exist and consider the mitigating factors.

Contributing Institution
Mississippi. Department of Archives and History