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Authors -- Mississippi.

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Mississippi authors; Mississippi writers

Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:

Carl F. Andre Writings

 Unprocessed Collection
Identifier: AM22-020
Abstract

Manuscript materials of Carl F. Andre, writer for the Northside Sun in Jackson, Mississippi.

Dates: 1962-1995

John G. Armistead Collection

 Collection
Identifier: M534
Abstract

Manuscripts of novels and related papers by Mississippi author.

Dates: circa 1994-2000

Ewart A. Autry Typescript

 Collection
Identifier: M119
Abstract

The stories in this collection may be of interest to students of literature, religion, sociology, and anthropology, in that they provide anecdotal tales associated with traditional values, which reflect the ideas held by a southern, white, educated, minister writing about his perceptions of life in rural northern Mississippi from the early 1900's through the 1970's.

Dates: 1964

James A. Bateman Papers

 Collection
Identifier: M661
Abstract

Poetry, essays, manuscripts, and published works by James Andy Bateman.

Dates: circa early 1970s-1992

David C. Berry, Jr. Papers

 Collection
Identifier: M523
Abstract

The David C. Berry, Jr. Papers include the correspondence, drafted writings, and publications of USM professor and poet David C. Berry. This collection would be of particular interest to researchers focusing on the writing process or studying university professorships and family life in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Topics in Berry’s poetry include the Vietnam War, marriage, divorce, and religion.

Dates: circa 1965; 1965-2020

William T. Brannon Papers

 Collection
Identifier: M25
Abstract

In 1971, William Brannon donated materials to the University of Southern Mississippi Archives. The collection largely consists of magazines, manuscripts, and correspondence related to the writer’s career as both a staff and freelance writer whose work appeared in many publications.

Dates: 1935-1981

McAtee/Marion County Civil Rights Oral History Collection

 Collection
Identifier: M649
Abstract

Audio interviews related to the Civil Rights Movement in Marion County, Mississippi.

Dates: Interviews taped in 2009; content circa 1960’s

Neil R. McMillen Collection

 Collection
Identifier: M606
Abstract The Neil R. McMillen Collection consists of correspondence and research relating to Dark Journey: Black Mississippians in the Age of Jim Crow (1989), as well as documents pertaining to the Shelby Thames administration at the University of Southern Mississippi. This collection is of particular interest to researchers studying Mississippi in the Jim Crow era, racialized political groups like the American Nazi Party in the twentieth century, and the University of...
Dates: 1935; 1963, 1970, 1977-1999, 2003-2004, undated

Methodist History Materials Collection

 Collection
Identifier: M451
Abstract

Reverend John Buford Cain, a Methodist historian, wrote many publications, including Methodism in the Mississippi Conference: 1846-1870. The collection contains copies of pages from that book, accompanied by handwritten notations on the history of Madison County, Mississippi.

Dates: Unknown

John Frederick Nau Papers

 Collection
Identifier: M170
Abstract The John Frederick Nau Papers is a collection of correspondence, newsletters, and other records relating to Dr. John Frederick Nau’s own articles and writings, and his involvement with the Mississippi Association for Retarded Children, M.A.R.C. Also included in this collection are manuscript histories of the U.S.M. Department of Philosophy and Religion, Danforth Chapel, and M.M. Roberts Stadium. This collection would be of interest to those studying the University of Southern Mississippi’s...
Dates: 1952-1981

The Robber Bridegroom Poster

 Collection
Identifier: M621
Abstract

The Robber Bridegroom Poster Collection consists of a poster from Lemuria Bookstore commemorating an illustrated, forty-fifth anniversary edition of Eudora Welty’s novella, The Robber Bridegroom (1942), which is signed by the illustrator Barry Moser. This collection is of particular interest to researchers studying American literature, Mississippi authors, Eudora Welty, and Barry Moser.

Dates: November 13, 1987

Flo Hampton Scott Papers

 Collection
Identifier: M86
Abstract

Anecdotal tales in her book, That Passing Laughter.

Dates: Majority of material found within circa 1960s

Dale Milton Titler Papers

 Collection
Identifier: M680
Scope and Contents

The Dale Milton Titler Papers contain manuscripts, typescripts, research, correspondence, oral history interviews, book reviews, and articles accumulated by historian and author Dale M. Titler between 1945-2011.

Titler’s papers were curated from his nine published books and four unpublished works. This collection is divided into six series: correspondence, manuscripts chronolgical, manuscripts alphabetical, oral interviews, photographs, and oversized materials.

Dates: Circa 1940-2011