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Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission

Description

Records collected by the Mississippi Sovereignty Commission on race relations in Madison County, Mississippi. The file focuses on the individuals in the county who belong to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) or who are otherwise race agitators. The file includes itineraries for investigations in the county, letters, reports, and memorandums written by individuals in the commission. It also includes information about an investigation about the new high school for African American students built in the county in 1958 as well as allegations of police brutality in the shooting death of an African American man.The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata.

Record Contributed By

Mississippi Department of Archives and History

Record Harvested From

Digital Library of Georgia