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Victoria Gray Adams Papers
Collection
Identifier: M345
Abstract
Materials relating to her life-time of civil rights and human rights activities.
Dates:
circa 1938-2000
Found in:
Historical Manuscripts and Photographs
Vernon F. Dahmer Collection
Collection
Identifier: M250
Scope and Contents
The Vernon F. Dahmer Collection consists of copies of newspaper clippings and programs dating from 1966 to 1998, and 24 photographs taken during the fifth trial of Sam Bowers. Most of the newspaper clippings were collected by the Dahmer family between 1966 and 1986, and follow events surrounding the bombing of their home, community support after the tragedy, and the trials of those men indicted for arson, murder, and conspiracy. Other articles in the collection were published in ...
Dates:
1966-1998
Found in:
Historical Manuscripts and Photographs
Anthony J. Harris Civil Rights Memoir
Collection
Identifier: M369
Abstract
Memoir of his arrest as a child for picketing the Forrest County Courthouse during the Civil Rights Movement.
Dates:
1998
Found in:
Historical Manuscripts and Photographs
Hattiesburg Civil Rights Film
Collection
Identifier: M588
Abstract
This collection consists of one video of what appears to be the Freedom Day protests of January 22, 1964 that occurred for voter registration outside of the courthouse in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. The Hattiesburg Civil Rights Film is of particular interest to researchers studying the Civil Rights Movement, Mississippi, and Hattiesburg.
Dates:
1964
Found in:
Historical Manuscripts and Photographs