1848-1950

1848-1865

• Notes from the Board of Trustee Minutes
• 1853-57 University of Mississippi Catalogue of Officers, Alumni and Students
• Branham Affair

1865-1900

For the University's position on the admittance of African Americans during Reconstruction see, John Waddel, Memorials of Academic Life: Being a Historical Sketch of the Waddel Family (Presbyterian Committee of Publication, 1891), p. 466-468.

1900-1940

Early African American figures on campus:

• Blind Jim Ivy
• George Harvey
• C. B. Webb
• Uncle Bob