University of Mississippi -- Riot, Sept. 30, 1962; College integration -- Mississippi -- Oxford; Segregation in higher education -- Mississippi; College student newspapers and periodicals -- United States
A compilation of editorials from student newspapers at universities around the South, documenting student response to the integration of the University of Mississippi and the accompanying violence
United States. Supreme Court; United States. Court of Appeals; Civil rights -- Mississippi; Segregation -- Mississippi; Suffrage -- Mississippi; Education -- Mississippi;
The factual basis for assertions that between 1899 and 1952 African Americans were not allowed to vote, that literate African Americans were required to interpret sections of the Mississippi constitution, and that African Americans were excluded...
Segregation in higher education -- Mississippi; Barnett, Ross R. (Ross Robert), 1898-1987
Four Jackson, Miss., community leaders publicly express their stance that Governor Ross Barnett is right to protest African American Cleve McDowell's enrollment in the University of Mississippi law school, but that he should stop short of physical...
Segregation in higher education -- Mississippi; Mississippi -- Race relations
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...
Civil rights activists claim that African-American students in Greenwood and Jackson, Miss., are being denied free lunches when they are entitled to them. The story also describes intimidation and threats experienced by young African Americans in...
Letter to the editor about a postcard campaign to remove integrationists from the University of Mississippi--the campaign was unsuccessful, and the letter writer claims that there were more postcards sent than reported
United States. Supreme Court; United States. Court of Appeals; Civil rights -- Mississippi; Segregation -- Mississippi; Suffrage -- Mississippi; Education -- Mississippi;
A list of delegates’ names at the 1890 Mississippi constitutional convention who sought to restrict African American franchise and perpetuate white supremacy.
