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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
Leslie A. Falk African American History Research Collection
Collection
Identifier: M391
Abstract
Materials regarding the Underground Railroad and other aspects of African American history collected by Dr. Falk, the first Medical Committee for Human Rights Field Secretary in Mississippi.
Dates:
1842-1999
Found in:
Historical Manuscripts and Photographs
Lucy Komisar Civil Rights Collection
Collection
Identifier: M395
Scope and Contents
The Lucy Komisar Civil Rights Collection brings together nearly four years of news stories by an alternative newspaper in Mississippi during the early 1960s and includes a historical/ biographical sketch of the creator of the collection. Most of the collection consists of photocopies of issues of the Mississippi Free Press (an incomplete run) that were published in Jackson, Mississippi, between the years of 1961 – 1964. The collection also includes an...
Dates:
1961-1964; 1991
Found in:
Historical Manuscripts and Photographs