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State Ready To Deal With Demonstrators
Kenneth Toler
A summary of Mississippi state laws that authorities plan to use to handle integrationist demonstrators; Source: Commercial Appeal (Memphis, Tenn.)
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Support Official State Policy By Voting For Paul B. Johnson
Author Unknown
Editorial supporting Paul B. Johnson for governor of Mississippi; Source: unknown; Unknown date
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Survivalls [sic] Tied To Federal Link
Author Unknown
Article quoting a Clarksdale, Miss., attorney emphasizing the importance of voter participation to combat federal government encroachment on the state of Mississippi; Source: Commercial Appeal (Memphis, Tenn.); Unknown date
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Team effort produced this and 500 more!
Author Unknown
Photo of and caption about the newly-opened Standard Oil Refinery in Mississippi, shown as an example of the state's economic progress; Source: unknown; Unknown date
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The Beautiful Americans
Author Unknown
A list of quotations excerpted from James Silver's Mississippi: The Closed Society, part of a larger piece on Silver; Source: Pageant; Unknown date
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The Case of Professor James W. Silver
Richard P. Adams, Frances C. Brown, Gladys Kammerer, and Forrest W. Lacey
Article about attempts by the legislature and board of trustees to try and remove James Silver from his job at the University of Mississippi; Source: AAUP Bulletin
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The Chancellor Is Right
Oxford Eagle
Editorial expressing support for Chancellor J. D. Williams's rescinding Reverend Alvin Kershaw's invitation to speak on campus following the reverend's publicly expressing support for the NAACP; Source: Oxford Eagle
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The Churches In Mississippi
Ralph McGill
Editorial describing the concern of Christian leaders in Mississippi about the hostile racial climate in the state; Source: unknown; Unknown date
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The Conservative Future at Stake
LIFE
Two editorials from LIFE magazine: one concerning the prospective nomination of Barry Goldwater as a presidential candidate, and the other concerning United Nations operations in the Congo.; Source: LIFE
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The Economist, 11 August 1956
Author Unknown
An article, Labour Meets The Colour Line, about efforts to unionize textile workers in the South and hostility toward union organizers there; [From a correspondent in Mississippi]
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The Economist, 1 January 1955
Author Unknown
An article, Little White School-House?, on school segregation in Mississippi; [From a correspondent in Mississippi]
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The Election of Mr. Johnson Will
Author Unknown
Very small fragment of an editorial supporting Paul Johnson for governor; Source: Jackson Daily News; Unknown date
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The Integration Amendment: Was It Ever Legally Adopted?
M. M. McGowan
Lengthy article by judge M. M. McGowan, claiming that the 14th amendment was never legally passed, and condemning contemporary segregation efforts as hostile to states' rights; Source: Jackson Daily News
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The Kind of Words That Make a Man a Target
Hodding Carter
Section of the June 1964 issue of Pageant magazine, containing an article on James Silver; Source: Pageant
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The Mother Who Broke the Boycott
David Zinman
A profile of Daisey Josephine Gabrielle, a New Orleans woman who sent her daughter to an integrated school amid violent community protests; Source: Newsday
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The New Oxford
Author Unknown
Editorial discussing a lack of discipline and ineffectual administration at the University of Mississippi; Source: unknown; Unknown date
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Then There Were None
Author Unknown
Religious Emphasis Week at the University of Mississippi was canceled when speakers declined to attend in protest of Chancellor Williams's censorship of a speaker who supported the NAACP; Unknown date
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The People
Ole Miss Student
Letter to the editor from a student at the University of Mississippi, supporting firing James Silver; Unknown date
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The Right to Know
J. D. Williams
Several news items, including a brief description of the controversy surrounding Mississippi: The Closed Society; Source: unknown; Unknown date
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The Southern Reposure
Southern Reposure
A satirical newspaper edited and published by Nathan Bedford Cooclose, promoting segregation of the Scotch-Irish from the rest of the southern population; Source: Southern Reposure
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The Student Voice
Forrest G. Cooper Jr.
Editorial attacking James Silver's reasons for promoting integration in Mississippi and at the University of Mississippi; Source: The Mississippian
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This is Mississippi
Author Unknown
Prediction that a meeting of the Mississippi Board of Institutions of Higher Learning, held to discuss James Silver's potential firing, will not have a positive outcome for Silver; Source: unknown; Unknown date
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This Week In 1862
Dale Fleming and Pearl Fleming
Description of legal and military milestones that took place in Mississippi from 28 January-3 February 1862; Source: unknown; Unknown date
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Threats Against Teachers Challenge Johnson's Plan
Author Unknown
Article describing threats leveled against white teachers in the Head Start program in Calhoun County, Miss., believed to come from the Ku Klux Klan; Source: unknown; Unknown date
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Through Hazel Eyes
Hazel Brannon Smith
Column lamenting the fact that many observers of the University of Mississippi integration riots have formed their own opinions about what really happened there, and that they have no interest in hearing the facts; Source: Northside Reporter (Jackson, Miss.)
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Through Hazel Eyes (2)
Hazel Brannon Smith
Column advertising an upcoming arts festival in Jackson, Miss., and censorship of the University of Southern Mississippi's student newspaper and the subsequent emergence of an underground newspaper at the school; Source: Northside Reporter (Jackson, Miss.)
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Through Hazel Eyes (3)
Hazel Brannon Smith
Column discussing Governor Paul Johnson's efforts to expand police forces in Mississippi in preparation for anticipated racial unrest; Source: Northside Reporter (Jackson, Miss.); Unknown date
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Time Magazine, 29 July 1957
Author Unknown
Clipping containing an item about unrest at the University of Mississippi; Source: TIME; Unknown date
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Told to Keep Quiet
Author Unknown
Fragment of an article describing a speech by James Silver on the probable continued decline of race relations in Mississippi; Source: unknown; Unknown date
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Tougaloo President Resigning
United Press International
Article about the resignation of Tougaloo College president Dr. A. D. Beittel, with discussion of college-accreditation legislation pending in Mississippi; Source: unknown; Unknown date
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Traffic Counts Deter Six Integrationists
Author Unknown
Article about the detention of three white and three African-American members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Congress of Federated Organizations, in Oxford, Miss.; Source: Jackson Daily News
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Troublemakers
Author Unknown
Short article that points out the inability of the Jackson Clarion-Ledger to acknowledge Mississippi's problems, as demonstrated by their referring to the man accused of killing Medgar Evers as a Californian, though he lived in Mississippi since childhood; Source: unknown
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Turnbow
Author Unknown
Fragment of an article about five African Americans arrested in connection with the firebombing of the home of Hartman Turnbow, including Turnbow himself, which law enforcement charged was an effort to stir up sympathy for the [African-American voter] registration campaign; Source: unknown; Unknown date
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Union Is Defeated In Vote
Author Unknown
Article about the decision of employees at the Storkline Corporation in Jackson, Miss., not to unionize; Source: Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, Miss.)
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Unread Proof: Economist
Author Unknown
Article discussing college integration in the South, particularly at the University of Alabama, and responding with distress to mounting racial tensions in the region; Source: Economist
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Veteran Describes Federal Brutality In Oxford Rioting
Author Unknown
Melvin Bruce, a veteran arrested during the integration riots at the University of Mississippi describes the harsh conditions he encountered during his imprisonment; Source: Jackson Daily News
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VFW Still At Odds With VA Integration
Phil Stroupe
Article on Jackson, Miss., Veterans Administration manager A. W. Woolford's insistence upon integrating the VA hospital in accordance with federal orders, despite complaints from area Veterans of Foreign Wars; Source: unknown; Unknown date
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Violence Will Not Help
Sidna Brower
Editorial by Sidna Brower, editor of the Mississippian, appealing to the student body to resist taking part in the violence surrounding the integration of the University of Mississippi; Source: The Mississippian
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Voice from Pulpit Probes Conscience of Mississippi
Duncan Montgomery Gray
Part of a sermon delivered by Reverend Duncan Gray, urging those in the Oxford and University of Mississippi communities to accept integration and renounce violence; Source: Commercial Appeal (Memphis, Tenn.)
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Voice Of The People (1)
Alphonse Cincere Publications
Satirical letter to the editor announcing plans to publish a volume of readers' interpretations of constitutional amendments, without regard to legal argument, logic or concern for the general welfare of all the people of the United States; Source: unknown; Unknown date
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Voice of the People (2)
R. T. Floyd (Mrs.)
Letter to the editor calling for an investigation into whether James Silver is spouting the communist line in his classes; Source: unknown
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Voice of the People (3)
R. K. Daniel
Letter to the editor criticizing former Florida governor LeRoy Collins for his defense of James Silver; Source: unknown
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Voice of the People (4)
John P. Patrick
Letter to the editor whose author claims to pity James Silver, and calls for Mississippians to support his removal; Source: unknown; Unknown date
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Voice of the People (5)
Anselm Teufelsdrockh
Letter to the editor answering various questions that have been asked of the author, an international student, after his having written a previous letter; Source: unknown
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Voting Rights Bill Hits 60 Districts
Author Unknown
Article about the voting rights section of the civil rights bill and how it will affect African-American voter participation; Source: Commercial Appeal (Memphis, Tenn.); Unknown date
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We assist the civil rights organizations
Author Unknown
Description of a speech given by an unnamed speaker at an event where Medgar Evers and James Silver also spoke; Source: unknown; Unknown date
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What is the Atmosphere in Mississippi?
Hilmi Toros
Typed draft of a news article on the possibility of James Silver's being fired from the University of Mississippi
