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This article examines the history of white attempts to circumvent and avoid integration in Mississippi schools between 1954 and 1970. This article mentions the Jackson Citizen's Council, white insistence on Separate but Equal, and President Kennedy's…

The first letter to the editor complains that "critical letters to the editor, open discussions, and perverted views as presented in last year's Reflector and Reveille" are in inflammatory and make funding difficult. The writer goes on to say that…

This article describes the lack of Black faculty and professors on the Mississippi State University campus. The article goes on to quote a Black faculty member as saying that he believes the shortage is not from lack of trying but more from facing…

This is a photograph of Sonny Montgomery as a player with his teammates on the Mississippi State University varsity men's basketball team in early 1940s.

This is a photograph from the Mississippi State University Reveille yearbook that depicts Sonny Montgomery as a football manager for the MSU football team during his college years.

This is a report card of Sonny Montgomery's during his tenure as a student at Mississippi State College in 1942.

Clipping of the newspaper article "MSU Reacts to King's Death" published in Mississippi State University's student newspaper The Reflector. The article describes the vigil and memorial service that took place on campus at Mississippi State University…

The item is a pamphlet that is folded into 8 sections including a title page. Text is placed on the front and back of each section. It includes images of members of the Mississippi Summer Project. The goal of the object is to detail the goals,…

List of members of the Mississippi state legislature in 1870