Finding Aid for the James W. Silver Collection (MUM00410)

Authors

Document Type

Finding Aid

Collection Date

1928-1986

Identifier

MUM00410

LCSH

Silver, James W. (James Wesley), 1907-; Meredith, James, 1933-; University of Mississippi; Civil rights movements -- Mississippi -- Oxford -- History -- 20th century; College integration -- Mississippi -- Oxford -- History; Segregation; Mississippi -- Politics and government; Mississippi -- Race relations; Mississippi -- Social conditions

General Physical Description Note

50 boxes (approximately 25 linear feet)

Link to Digitized Collection

https://egrove.olemiss.edu/jws_race/

Description

The collection contains correspondence, manuscripts, speeches, audio, and printed material produced and collected by James Wesley Silver. Silver was a professor of history at The University of Mississippi from 1936 to 1964 and author of Mississippi: The Closed Society.

Recommended Citation

James W. Silver Collection, Archives and Special Collections, J.D. Williams Library, The University of Mississippi