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Northern Businessman Condemns Forces Behind Social Revolution
John B. Cotton
Letter to the editor from a Massachusetts businessman, criticizing James Silver and his book of social anarchy, and claiming that the majority of Northerners have no interest in fomenting a social revolution in the South; Source: Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, Miss.)
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North Still in Twilight of Ignorance
James W. Silver
Essay written by James Silver during time spent teaching in Boston, discussing the ignorance of many northerners about the racial situation in the South and how it compares to the situation in the rest of the country; Source: Oxford Eagle; Unknown date
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ODK Forums fill need
Author Unknown
Article about a series of lectures to be held at the University of Mississippi, presenting both liberal and conservative viewpoints; Source: The Mississippian
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Ole Miss Dean Blasts Councils
Author Unknown
University of Mississippi Law School dean Robert J. Farley explains why he has chosen to leave his position rather than seek an extension to work past the mandatory age of retirement; Source: Commercial Appeal (Memphis, Tenn.); Unknown date
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Ole Miss Faculty Protests University News Release
Ilene H. Strelitz
Article about a protest, by the University of Mississippi chapter of the American Association of University Professors, of an article issued by the University News Service that downplayed the seriousness of racial problems at the university and misrepresented facts surrounding the university's integration; Source: Stanford Daily; Unknown date
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Ole Miss Historian To Expose South
Author Unknown
Article on James Silver's retirement as president of the Southern Historical Association, with quotes from his daughter, Betty Silver, a Wellesley student; Source: Wellesley College News
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Ole Miss History Prof Blasts Screening Speakers
Author Unknown
Article on James Silver's criticism of the University of Mississippi's decision to screen speakers invited to campus in order to keep students from being exposed to subversive ideas; Source: unknown; Unknown date
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Ole Miss history prof receives coveted posts
Author Unknown
Announcement of James Silver's election as Vice President of the Southern Historical Association, and his appointment as Program Director for the Civil War Conference at Gettysburg College; Source: The Mississippian; Unknown date
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Ole Miss Professor Says No One Has Answered Closed Society Charge
Author Unknown
James Silver expresses his disappointment that no one in Mississippi has made a real attempt to rebut his argument that Mississippi is a closed society; Source: Arkansas Gazette
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Ole Miss Prof Says AAUP Big Help In Integration Crisis
John Perkins
Dr. Russell Barrett, a University of Mississippi political science professor, discusses actions taken by the university's chapter of the American Association of University Professors to assist during the process of James Meredith's enrollment; Source: Jackson Daily News; Unknown date
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Ole Miss Prof Says Society Closed Here
United Press International
Article about James Silver's Mississippi: The Closed Society speech; Source: Jackson Daily News
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On Professor James Silver: I hope they get rid of him.
Ross Barnett
Interview with former Governor Ross Barnett; Source: The Rebel: Weekly Supplement to The Mississippian
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Orders End To Prosecution of Negroes
Author Unknown
Article describing judge Sidney Mize's order to end the perjury trial of two African Americans; Source: Jackson Daily News
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Our Own Freedom is in Jeopardy
Hazel Brannon Smith
Editorial claiming that firing James Silver would endanger the freedom of Mississippians
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Our Vote Laws Are Lambasted
Author Unknown
Short article quoting Illinois senator Everett Dirksen, objecting to legislation in Mississippi that would weaken the Republican party in the state; Source: Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, Miss.); Unknown date
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Ouster of Silver May Be Tried
United Press International
Report of the plan to try to fire James Silver; Source: Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, Miss.)
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Oxford Long Way From Nigeria
Edna Whitfield Alexander
Letter to the editor in response to a previous letter from a Mississippian working as a missionary in Nigeria, which presumably commented on the events surrounding the integration of the University of Mississippi and encouraged integration. The writer of the present letter, Edna Whitfield Alexander, claims that the missionary cannot have accurate knowledge of the events at Ole Miss because of biased media coverage, and rails against the amalgamation of disparate races.; Source: Jackson Daily News
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Oxford to levy increased fines
Author Unknown
Article detailing plans to increase fines and potential jail time for offenses against the city of Oxford in anticipation of pro-integration demonstrations; Source: unknown; Unknown date
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Oxford, U.S.A.
Paul G. Hahn
Letter to the editor about the documentary Oxford U.S.A., claiming that it presents a distorted and biased view of events surrounding the integration of the University of Mississippi; Source: unknown
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Pamphlet Cost Paid By Public
United Press International
Article revealing that Mississippi Welfare Commissioner Fred Ross used public funds to print and distribute copies of his speech titled Racial Amalgamation Versus Segregation and Racial Coperation [sic], which contends, among other things, that Mississippi schools would be more likely to close down altogether than to permit integration; Source: Commercial Appeal (Memphis, Tenn.)
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Paper Urges Don't Close Church Doors
Associated Press
Description of an article in the Mississippi Methodist Advocate, asking its members not to discriminate against any of God's children; Source: unknown; Unknown date
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Party Loyalty Debate Erupts Between Phillips, Garrot
Larry Speakes
Description of an argument between a Republican gubernatorial candidate and a state Democratic leader over who should be allowed to vote in Mississippi primaries; Source: Commercial Appeal (Memphis, Tenn.); Unknown date
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Passionate Solicitor in Action
Author Unknown
Article discussing whether Mississippi governors Ross Barnett and Paul Johnson should be allowed a jury trial in the case of criminal contempt charges filed against them by the United States Justice Department; Source: Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, Miss.); Unknown date
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Past Year At Ole Miss One Of Best In History
Pat D. Smith
Article proclaiming the year following the integration of the University of Mississippi and its accompanying violence to have been a highly successful one; Source: Jackson Daily News
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Patridge Calls Again for Action Against Silver
Associated Press
Report of state legislator Corbett Patridge's assertion that if the University of Mississippi would not fire James Silver, the legislature should take action to do so; Source: unknown; Unknown date
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Patterson Brands Charge Misleading
Author Unknown
Description of the Mississippi Attorney General's refutation of criticism that he did not make a sufficient effort to keep the University of Mississippi from being integrated; Source: Commercial Appeal (Memphis, Tenn.); Unknown date
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Patterson Tells Council's Place in Segregation
Author Unknown
Robert Patterson, executive secretary of the Mississippi Association of Citizens Councils, discusses with a group of citizens the possibility of forming a Citizens' Council in Lafayette County; Source: unknown; Unknown date
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Paul Flowers' Greenhouse
Paul Flowers
Article describing the lumber industry in Mississippi and an African-American railroad ballad discovered by James Silver during the course of his research; Source: Commercial Appeal (Memphis, Tenn.); Unknown date
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Paul Flowers' Greenhouse 2
Paul Flowers
Describes James Silver's search for a specific folk ballad; Source: Commercial Appeal (Memphis, Tenn.)
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PBJ Vows Open Door Policies
James Saggus
Article describing Governor Paul B. Johnson's pledge to maintain communication between Mississippi and the rest of the country to avoid isolation; Source: Jackson Daily News; Unknown date
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Peace marchers detained in city and pay $19.50 fine
Author Unknown
Article about the arrest of three white and three African-American civil rights workers, and the confiscation of the books they were attempting to transport to African-American Freedom Schools
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Police State Tactics Hit By Silver
Margaret McKee
Fragment of an article describing a speech given by James Silver in Memphis, about the harsh tactics used in Mississippi to enforce segregation; Source: Memphis Press-Scimitar; Unknown date
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Prof calls columnist segregationist
James W. Silver
Letter to the editor from James Silver, calling columnist James J. Kilpatrick a segregationist because of his opposition to school busing; Source: Oracle (University of South Florida)
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Professor To Address Council Here
Author Unknown
Announcement of a speech on States' Rights and the South to be given by James Silver to part of the Virginia Council on Human Relations; Source: unknown; Unknown date
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Prof. Silver Angry, But Retains Hope
Roger Birdsell
An interview with James Silver, in which he discusses his perception of the shifting social climate in Mississippi, his reasons for staying in the state, and his admiration for African Americans who live there despite persecution; Source: South Bend Tribune
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Purported Transcript Given Again
Author Unknown
Description of a published transcript of a conversation between Governor Ross Barnett and Lieutenant Governor Paul Johnson, showing evidence that they willfully prevented James H. Meredith from registering as a student at the University of Mississippi; Source: unknown; Unknown date
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Racial Barriers To Cost Stores Postal Outlets
Author Unknown
Article describing twenty-six Memphis businesses that are being required by an order from the Post Office Department in Washington, D.C. to desegregate in order to be allowed to operate postal windows; Source: unknown; Unknown date
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Racial Isolation On Campus Urged
Author Unknown
Description of a circular distributed at the University of Mississippi, encouraging students not to interact with James Meredith; Source: Commercial Appeal (Memphis, Tenn.); Unknown date
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Racial Rivals Eye Clarksdale
William B. Street
Article regarding efforts by the NAACP and the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) to reinvigorate integration efforts in Clarksdale, Miss.; Source: Commercial Appeal (Memphis, Tenn.)
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Radio station cuts campus
Author Unknown
Letter to the editor expressing anger and shock at the University of Mississippi radio station's decision to play a song that satirizes the 1962 riots; Source: unknown; Unknown date
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Ralph McGill on Mississippi
Ralph McGill
A discussion of violence in Mississippi perpetrated against those who work for social change; Source: unknown; Unknown date
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Raps Collins For Stand on Dr. Silver
Associated Press
Criticism by a Jackson, Miss., radio executive of former Florida governor LeRoy Collins's call to broadcasters to defend James Silver; Source: Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, Miss.)
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Reader Writes in Defense of the Frustrated Generation
William J. Hoffacker, Zara Ackerman, Claire R. Keller, James W. Silver, Frederick Howe, and P. Franquet
Page of letters to the editor on various issues, including one by James Silver about school busing in Florida; Source: St. Petersburg Times (Fla.)
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Reaffirmation of American Principle
Author Unknown
Positive review of a Lions Club meeting where James Silver spoke and was received politely; Source: Delta Democrat Times
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Reasons for Scholastic Decline
James W. Silver
Silver responds to the simplistic editoral on Failing Grades for the School System; Source: unknown
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Recommendation that Negroes be admitted to services
Author Unknown
Fragment of an article on segregation in Mississippi churches and the conservative political climate on the state's college campuses; Source: unknown; Unknown date
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Reds Adroit At Use Of Even Their Foes
J. Edgar Hoover
Article by then-FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, describing the ease with which the Communist Party can exploit Americans and inflict its agenda on the public; Source: Commercial Appeal (Memphis, Tenn.)
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Remind Me to Investigate
Author Unknown
Political cartoon depicting United States Senator James O. Eastland of Mississippi dictating to his secretary, Remind Me to Investigate the Ole Miss Affair, My Findings Will Be as Follows; Source: unknown; Unknown date