The University of Mississippi's Civil Rights Archive contains digitized versions of small (generally one box or less) collections related to the struggle for civil rights in Mississippi and the American South.

The Mississippi Education Collection contains articles, newsletters, and miscellaneous documents related to education in Mississippi. Items were created between 1924 and 2000. The collection has been digitized in its entirety.

Contains telegrams sent to and sent out by the Oxford, Miss. Western Union telegram office during August-October 1962. All of the telegrams included in the digital collection relate to the integration of the University of Mississippi.

Contains two bound and indexed volumes of the Faulkner Newsletter & Yoknapatawpha Review, a tabloid-format quarterly publication with news of current publications, seminars, conferences, reminiscences, obituaries, book reviews and parody contests associated with the works and life of William Faulkner and related scholars and collectors

Contains over 4700 Kodachrome slides and black-and-white photographs documenting late 1940s to mid-1950s segregated schools from the following Mississippi counties in the: Benton, Clay, Grenada, Holmes, Jones, Marshall, Panola, Prentiss, Quitman, Sunflower, Tallahatchie, Union, and Yalobusha. The collection includes images of the University of Mississippi prior to the 1962 Integration.

James W. Silver was a controversial professor of history at the University of Mississippi from 1936 to 1964 and an outspoken opponent of segregation. This collection contains newspaper clippings, letters, and other writings that document Silver’s intellectual, professional, and political activities, as well as the social and political climate in Mississippi during his tenure at the university.

Trent Lott represented Mississippi in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1973 to 1989 and in the U.S. Senate from 1989 to 2007. The digital collection contains a selection of recordings from Lott's congressional collection

James O. Eastland represented Mississippi in the U.S. Senate in 1941 and then from 1943 until his retirement in 1978. He became chair of the Judiciary Committee in 1956. The digital collection currently consists of one scrapbook; audio and video recordings, and executive branch correspondence.

Jamie Whitten represented Mississippi in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1941 to 1995. He served as chair of the powerful Committee on Appropriations from 1979 to 1992. The digital collection contains recordings from Whitten's congressional collection.

Materials related to Major-General Nathanael Greene of the Continental Army, including correspondence from notable contemporary figures, including George Washington, John Hancock and Thadeus Kosciuszko.

Civil War letters, diaries & images as well as Confederate documents from the University of Mississippi Archives & Special Collections.

Grover H. Catt, a Mississippi native, was part of the 509th Bomb Wing of the United States Air Force, which dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan during World War II. This digital collection contains photographs document the Enola Gay bomber and more.

Contains audio recordings of oral histories conducted by Jere Nash and Andy Taggart in the process of writing their book Mississippi Politics: The Struggle for Power, 1976-2006 and the subsequent edition Mississippi Politics: The Struggle for Power, 1976-2008.

Contains audio and audiovisual recordings from the collection of Carroll Gartin, who served three terms as Mississippi's Lieutenant Governor (1952-1956, 1956-1960, and 1964-1966).

Oral histories of the Freedom Riders, a group of mostly young people who risked their lives to challenge the system of segregation in interstate travel in the South.

Images & correspondence from the 1962 enrollment of James H. Meredith to the University of Mississippi. Following Meredith's arrival on campus, a riot erupted in which a white crowd attacked U.S. Marshals sent to protect Meredith.

Oral histories regarding music in north Mississippi, with particular emphasis on gospel music. These oral histories were generated by University of Mississippi student participants in the 2007-2010 Field Schools for Cultural Documentation of the Library of Congress.

Comprised of oral interviews conducted in the 1980s with past and current female members of southern state legislatures.

Postcards from the Ann Rayburn Paper Americana Collection; primarily images of Mississippi towns and historical landmarks.

A nonpartisan, national organization, the League of Women Voters (LWV) "encourages the informed and active participation of citizens in government and influences policy through education and advocacy." The digital collection features recordings from the official archive of the Mississippi division of LWV.

Correspondence from James E. Edmonds, University of Mississippi student and illustrator of the first "Ole Miss" in 1897. Topics range from student publications and social aspects of the University, including fraternities, to Typhoid Fever and the Spanish-American War.

Senator Robert F. Kennedy’s 1966 speech on the University of Mississippi campus.

Mississippi State Textbook Purchasing Board minutes from 1940 to 1987.

Containing leaves from different texts, the medieval manuscript fragments housed at the University of Mississippi focus heavily on Christianity, Latin grammar and Roman history.

Audio recordings documenting blues and gospel music; recorded by folklorist Alan Lomax between 1945 and 1965.

The United States v. Mississippi Interrogatory Answers Collection is an excerpt from the court record. It provides detailed data and sources on the difficulties Mississippi African Americans faced in exercising their right to vote between 1890 and 1963, as well as information on the state's segregated school system.

18th-20th-century British, Irish and Scottish broadside ballads documenting social and political life. Ballad subjects include love, Irish home rule, identity, religion, the Napoleonic Wars and much more. These broadsides represent a large cross-section of contemporaneous printers.

Taken by a variety of photographers, these images help document the blues from the beginning of its popularity in the 1920's through today. The photographs highlight performers, festivals, and locations important to the blues.

The Mississippi Woman Suffrage Association Collection features a selection of the organization's publications that date from its origins in 1897 to 1917. The collection also includes the handwritten minutes of the Equity League of Jackson, Mississippi from 1911 to 1916, as well as two pamphlets promoting the public speaking career of Mississippi suffragist Belle Kearney.

This collection contains audio interviews, mostly regarding North Mississippi Hill Country blues music, conducted by intern Matthew Joseph from 2010-2011.

The 26 original pen-and-ink drawings by political cartoonist Clifford K. Berryman in this collection appeared in print on the editorial pages of the Washington Star. Dating from 1924 to 1941, they all feature U.S. Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi.

Contains an audio recording of "What's the Issue?" radio program. U.S. Representative Thomas G. Abernethy of Mississippi was one of several guests discussing rural planning in the proposed Community Development District Act of 1966.

On 26 September 2008, the University of Mississippi hosted the first presidential debate between candidates Barack Obama and John McCain. The digital collection features photographs of the general public, political activists, vendors, and media which converged upon the UM campus for this historic occasion. It also includes recordings of debate-related programs on campus as well as a documentary on the debate.

Composed of minstrel songs, this collection grants insight into late 19th- and early 20th-century Southern culture. Particularly notable in these minstrel songs are portrayals of African Americans and a romanticized South, useful for understanding racial stereotypes.

Daguerreotype images of antebellum UM students & faculty, some of whom fought in the Civil War. Images were taken by Elijah Fleming, UM 1859.

Students, faculty and buildings from the 1861 classbook. Many members of the class of 1861 fought in the University Grays during the Civil War.

Features a recording of a 2003 Capitol Centennial Celebration in Jackson, Mississippi.

Contains selected publications issued by the University of Mississippi.