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Descriptive Summary

PURL:

http://purl.oclc.org/umarchives/MUM00594/

Creator:

University of Mississippi (collector)

Title:

James H. Meredith SMMSS.

Inclusive Dates:

1962-1998

Materials in:

English

Abstract:

Collection contains video cassettes, speeches, scrapbook, correspondence, newspapers, and periodicals related to James Meredith's admittance into the University of Mississippi. Items were created 1962-1998.

Quantity:

12 boxes.

Number:

MUM00594

Location:

J-7.

Repository :

The University of Mississippi
J.D. Williams Library
Department of Archives and Special Collections
P.O. Box 1848, University, MS 38677-1848, USA
Phone: 662.915.7408
Fax: 662.915.5734
E-Mail: archive@olemiss.edu
URL: http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/general_library/archives/

Cite as:

James H. Meredith SMMSS (MUM00594). The Department of Archives and Special Collections, J.D. Williams Library, The University of Mississippi.

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Use Restriction

The copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) governs the making of photocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted material. Under certain conditions specified in the law, libraries and archives are authorized to furnish a photocopy or other reproduction. One of these specified conditions is that the photocopy or reproduction is not to be "used for any purpose other than private study, scholarship or research." If a user makes a request for, or later uses, a photocopy or reproduction for purposes in excess of "fair use", that user may be liable for copyright infringement.

Index Terms

University of Mississippi -- History

Container List

JAMES H. MEREDITH SMALL MANUSCRIPTS INVENTORY

BOX 1 - LETTER SIZE
Three videocassettes of Meredith speech at University of Mississippi, on "White Supremacy and Black Cooperation," 1979.

Speech delivered by Meredith at the 20th Anniversary observance of the Admission of African-Americans to the University of Mississippi, 30 September 1982 (00-410).

Promotional advertisement for Mississippi, by Meredith (94-80).

Pamphlet, "James H. Meredith: Available for Speaking Engagements," undated (88-70).

Published report, "The University of Mississippi and the Meredith Case," 15 November 1962.

Information Bulletin: Published Monthly by the Mississippi Association of Methodist Ministers and Laymen (November 1962).

"The Ole Miss Coloring Book" by D. Ross Thompson (1963). Control No. 2000-168.

BOX 2 - LETTER SIZE

Teargas canisters used in disturbance surrounding admission of Meredith to University of Mississippi, 1962.

Deputy U.S. Marshal armband used in 1962 riot.

BOX 3 - OVERSIZE LEGAL (Box 1 of Elizabeth M. Kerr Collection)
Elizabeth M. Kerr scrapbooks of clippings re: Meredith enrollment, 1962 (00-479).

BOX 4 - HALFSIZE LEGAL (Box 2 of Elizabeth M. Kerr Collection)
Elizabeth M. Kerr military pass to Oxford and University of Mississippi, 15 October 1962.

Miscellaneous notes taken by Kerr re: her observance of disturbance surrounding admission of Meredith, circa 1962.

Two American Civil Liberties Union bulletins, November 1962 and March 1963.

Clippings.

Miscellaneous magazine articles re: Meredith.

BOX 5 - OVERSIZE
Clippings from Elizabeth M. Kerr Collection (00-479).

BOX 6 - LEGAL SIZE
NBC Correspondent Richard Valeriani's notes re: UM integration crisis, 1962 (handwritten and typewritten) (00-825).

Dan Smoot Report, 8 October 1962 featuring article, "The Mississippi Tragedy" (00-667).

Printed Card with racial epithet, circa 1962 (00-655).

T.L.S. from the Committee of 100 to "Dear Friend," 13 November 1962 (00-646).

"Report Prepared for the Board of Trustees, Institutions of Higher Learning of the State of Mississippi," 14 August 1963, with attached memos from Chancellor J. D. Williams, and broadside with racist cartoon and slogan, with Citizens' Council stamp, 1962-1963 (00-645).

Statement adopted by the Board of Trustees, 18 October 1962 (00-652).

Typescript of letter from Governor Ross Barnett to Henry King Stanford of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, 25 October 1962, 1 p. (00-653).

AHE College and University Bulletin, 1 December 1962 (00-655).

Ole Miss Coloring Book, circa 1962 (00-656).

Reprints of miscellaneous articles re: Meredith, 1962 (00-665).

"Rebel Resistance," broadside, circa 1962 (00-647).

Injunction from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to Board of Trustees, Institution of Higher Learning, State of Mississippi, re: James Meredith, 14 September 1962, and memorandum from E. R. Jobe, Executive Secretary, Board of Trustees, 25 September 1962 (21 copies) (00-648).

Citizens' Press Order form for bumpersticker "Brotherhood by Bayonet," circa 1962 (00-649).

Typescript of excerpt from Standards for Colleges, 29 November 1962 (00-651).

Mimeograph memorandum, Chancellor J. D. Williams to Faculty, 28 November 1962, 2 pp. (00-650).

T.M. "The University and Integration," a speech by J. D. Williams before Commonwealth Club of California, 21 February 1963 (00-657).

Pamphlet, Speech by L. O. Crosby, Jr., President of Crosby Forest Products, Co., Picayune, Mississippi, to Picayune Rotary Club, 11 January 1962 re: Meredith (00-658).

Published booklet, "The Oxford Disaster . . Price of Defiance," by Rep. Karl Wiesenburg, Jackson County, Mississippi, reprinted from Pascagoula Chronicle, 1962 (00-659).

Reprint of article "Oxford Victim Tells Story," by Melvin Bruce, 1963 (00-660).

Oxford-University military pass for James B. Coleman, 5 October 1962 (photocopy) (00-661).

University of Mississippi Official Register of news representative on campus, 1962 (original and photocopy) (00-662).

Defamatory sign from [University dormitory], circa 1962 (00-663).

The Vision, (Afro-American Studies Newsletter) Fall 1992, featuring article "Thirty Years Later: Our Debt to James Meredith" (00-1370).

Board of Trustees Resolution to Southern Association of Colleges ad Schools, 21 November 1963 (00-200)

T. D. "Statement from University of Mississippi on Academic Freedom and Faculty Responsibility," 2 December 1963 (00-201).

"Behind the Southern Students' Role in Mississippi" in Campus Supplement: Prepared by the United States National Student Association" (November 1962).

"Law Symposium Proceedings: Commemorating the 20th Anniversary of the Admission of Black Students to the University of Mississippi" (March 1983).

Note from James Meredith to Verna J. Boudreau thanking Boudreau for her good wishes. 21 November, 1962. Photocopy only. (2005-8)

Letter from Pacific School of Religion to James Meredith enclosed with a book sent to Meredith. January 4, 1963. (2005-10)

New York Times book review of "Sons of Mississippi" March 13, 2003. (2005-11)

Pacific Stars and Stripes October 1, 1962. (2005-12)

Mary W. Smith military pass to Oxford and University of Mississippi, 5 October 1962.

James Meredith's examination book for Pol Sci 305 January 19, 1963. (2005-14) RESTRICTED ACCESS

'Scrapbook approximately ¾ inch thick with newspaper clippings relates to UM integration.

Promotional material for James H. Meredith's Library Clubs of America, c.1998 (1998-07).

BOX 7 - LETTER SIZE
Clippings

BOX 8 - OVERSIZE
The Gadfly, 1 March 1963 (00-668).

Daily Mississippian, 8 January 1963 (2 copies) (00-673).

Oxford Eagle, 4 October 1962 (00-672).

Christian Science Monitor, 6 October 1967 (00-671).

Manchester College Oak Leaves, 11 October 1962 (00-670).

The Campus Conservative, November 1962 (00-669).

Ole Miss Magazine (Meredith Retrospective), 1982 (00-177).

James Meredith's Book On Learning Proper English, 1997 (99-84).

BOXES 9 & 10 - LETTER SIZE

Clippings

BOX 11 - OVERSIZE LEGAL Periodicals
Bryn Mawn Alumnae Bulletin, Winter, 1963, page 24.

The View from Eau Claire, Spring 1964, page 23.

Milton Today (Milton College Alumni Magazine) May 1963, p. 9.

U. S. News & World Report, 15 October 1962, (3 copies).

U. S. News & World Report, 21 January 1963.

U. S. News & World Report, 22 October 1962.

Time, 1 January 1965.

Time, 21 September 1962.

Time, 28 September 1962 (2 copies).

Time, 5 October 1962.

Time, 12 October 1962 (2 copies).

Time, 16 November 1962.

Newsweek, 1 October 1962.

Newsweek, 8 October 1962.

Newsweek (with UM on cover), 15 October 1962 (2 copies).

Newsweek, 22 October 1962.

Newsweek, 12 November 1962.

Saturday Review, 29 June 1963.

Time, 24 June 1966.

Look, 9 April 1963 (4 copies).

Look, 31 December 1962 (7 copies).

The Reporter, 8 November 1962 (2 copies).

Ebony, May 1973.

Saturday Evening Post, 13 August 1966.

BOX 12 - CLAMSHELL
United States Flag torn during campus disturbance surrounding Meredith enrollment to University of Mississippi, 1962.