Silver, James W. (James Wesley), 1907-1988; United States -- Race relations
Interview with James Silver in which he emphasizes that the entire United States, not just the South, is culpable, through its silence, for the mistreatment of African Americans
Silver, James W. (James Wesley), 1907-1988; University of Mississippi -- Race relations; Mississippi -- Race relations -- 20th century
Letters to the editor of the Memphis, Tenn. Commercial Appeal regarding James Silver's pro-integration views; one letter is supportive, the rest are critical
Murphy, William P. (William Patrick), 1919-2007; American Civil Liberties Union
Article on University of Mississippi law professor William P. Murphy's resignation, resulting from years of harassment about Murphy's political views and membership in the American Civil Liberties Union
Barnett, Ross R. (Ross Robert), 1898-1987; Mississippi -- Economic conditions
Article about Governor Ross Barnett's boast that his administration accumulated the highest-ever total of tax revenue of any Mississippi governor's administration
Textbooks -- Mississippi; Public schools -- Mississippi
Article detailing the Citizens Education Association's objection to psychological testing in Mississippi schools and the "socialistic" textbooks used in those schools
Public schools -- Mississippi; Textbooks -- Mississippi
Article describing how the Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation wants to screen textbooks used in schools to make sure they do not promote "communistic and atheistic beliefs"
Mississippi -- Social life and customs; Mississippi -- Race relations
Article describing a speech to University of Mississippi law students made by J. O. Emmerich, editor of the McComb (Miss.) Enterprise Journal, urging them not to think that racial problems were the only problems in Mississippi
Mississippi State Penitentiary; Barnett, Ross R. (Ross Robert), 1898-1987
Article about Wendell Cannon, Governor Ross Barnett's bandleader during the 1959 campaign, and his ambiguous role as musical director at the Mississippi State Penitentiary
Barnett, Ross R. (Ross Robert), 1898-1987; Mississippi State Penitentiary; Prisoners -- Mississippi -- Parchman; Mississippi -- Politics and government
Description of political schisms caused among Governor Ross Barnett's supporters as a result of convict Kimble Berry's escape from the Mississippi State Penitentiary
Barnett, Ross R. (Ross Robert), 1898-1987; Mississippi -- Economic conditions
Article describing Governor Ross Barnett's radio broadcast, in which he told a nationwide audience about economic and industrial progress being made in the state of Mississippi
Barnett, Ross R. (Ross Robert), 1898-1987; Mississippi State Penitentiary; Prisoners -- Mississippi -- Parchman
Article about Governor Ross Barnett's granting a convict an extra 30 days of "leave" from the Mississippi State Penitentiary, making the amount of time the prisoner had been on leave over a year
Barnett, Ross R. (Ross Robert), 1898-1987; Business enterprises -- Mississippi -- Jackson
Description of Governor Ross Barnett's visit to the Storkline Corporation in Jackson, Miss., to demonstrate support for existing industry in Mississippi
Column containing several short items about the "Rebel Underground," an underground, anti-integration student newspaper at the University of Mississippi
Labor unions -- Mississippi; Barnett, Ross R. (Ross Robert), 1898-1987
Article describing Mississippi Labor Council president Claude Ramsay's skepticism about Governor Ross Barnett's visit to the Storkline Corporation in Jackson
Mississippi -- Race relations; Silver, James W. (James Wesley), 1907-1988
Article describing James Silver's speech at the University of Mississippi's fourth Chancellor's Symposium on Southern History, held in 1978, in which Silver expresses pleasure at the progress made toward racial equality in Mississippi
Communism -- United States; Hoover, J. Edgar (John Edgar), 1895-1972
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
College integration -- Mississippi -- Oxford; Mississippi -- Politics and government
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
