Flags.

Form of Material

Contains a variety of materials:

NAACP and the Democratic Party materials

Family Bible and scrapbook

Family portraits

Two flags (one from his Uncle during the Spanish American War)

Awards

Scope and Contents From the Unprocessed Collection:

Materials from the 103d Infantry Division during WWII, reunion materials and Harold Branton's book, 103rd Infantry Division: "the trail of the cactus".

Form of Material Flag designed by Laurin Stennis, artist and granddaughter of former US Senator John C. Stennis as an alternative to the existing state flag at the time that featured a Confederate flag. It was officially named the “Declare Mississippi flag” but popularly referred to as the Stennis flag. In January 2021, the Mississippi Senate approved another design to replace the existing state flag that had been voted upon in November 2020. The existing state flag had been retired in the summer of 2020 in...

Form of Material

Two retired Mississippi state flags that flew at the University of Southern Mississippi. The nylon flag was the last one flown on campus before removal in October 2015, by President Rodney D. Bennett.

Form of Material

Retired Mississippi state flag removed from Reading Room.

Form of Material

One 3’ x 5’ nylon replica of the proposed new Mississippi State flag, which was defeated in a special election on April 17, 2001. Voters opted to retain the current state flag, which dates back to 1894.

Scope and Contents From the Unprocessed Collection:

Materials from the 103d Infantry Division during WWII, reunion materials and Harold Branton's book, 103rd Infantry Division: "the trail of the cactus".

Scope and Contents

Materials from the 103d Infantry Division during WWII, reunion materials and Harold Branton's book, 103rd Infantry Division: "the trail of the cactus".

Abstract

Materials documenting activities of African-American political activist in Hattiesburg,

Abstract

Diary, ship's log, memoirs, correspondence, memorabilia concerning his service in the U.S. Navy with the Seventh Fleet near New Guinea.

Form of Material

Various flags from different sources.

Abstract

This collection is comprised mainly of materials that document Erle Johnston's personal life and professional activities from approximately 1922 through his death in 1995. The Erle Johnston Papers should be beneficial to any researcher interested in the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi, as well as the political history of Mississippi in the twentieth century. The collection also provides insight into the life and personality of an important Mississippian.

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A collection of photographs, booklets, pamphlets, periodicals, postcards, and letters about Mississippi.

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This is a collection of documents collected by Ernest A. Walen of Longmeadow, Massachusetts. The collection contains original letters, orders, printed material, official documents, photographs, newspaper clippings, prints, etc. covering the 19th Century with an emphasis on American Civil War materials and some 20th Century materials concerning the Civil War. Most of the material on the Civil War concerns the Confederacy, with some Federal documents included.