The Civil War Letters and Documents Collection is a compilation of several small groups of papers acquired by the Memphis and Shelby County Room at different times and from various sources. The collection includes correspondence, business...
African Americans; Beale Street; civil rights; family life; government; integration; law; National Civil Rights Museum; politics; religion; Willis, A. W., Jr.;
The A.W. Willis, Jr. Collection was donated to the Memphis Public Library and Information Center by Willis’s widow, Dr. Miriam DeCosta Willis, on January 10, 2003. Comprised of ten boxes, this collection contains correspondence, newspaper...
African Americans; civil rights; Hooks, Benjamin L.; Memphis Area Chamber of Commerce; NAACP; politics; Stockton, Clifford; U.S. Navy; Zech, Lando W., Jr.;
"Politicians who retreat from their support of civil rights and turn their backs on efforts to end discrimination will face an election-day uprising of blacks, civil rights leader Benjamin L. Hooks of Memphis says." (Clipping 1 of 2)
airplanes; Battle of Memphis; Civil War; Korean War; martial law; mayors; military; planes; propaganda; public service; ration cards; war supplies; World War I; World War II;
The Memphians During War collection consists primarily of materials relating to the involvement of Memphians in the Civil War, World War I and World War II. -- The material on the Civil War largely relates to events which took place in Memphis and...
Maxine Smith, Executive Director of the NAACP and Miriam "Laurie" Sugarmon, Chairperson of the NAACP Education Commission, march to jail, where they were incarcerated for urging a boycott of the public schools. Accompanying them are...
Church Health Center; civil rights; Dozier, Carroll T.; Herenton, W. W.; Hyter, James A.; James, Robert B.; Kennedy, John F.; King, Martin Luther, Jr.; McRae, Frank Lewis; Metropolitan Inter-Faith Association (MIFA); religion; sanitation workers...
Rev. Frank Lewis McRae, longtime minister of St. John's United Methodist Church, was also a civic and community leader. Active throughout the civil rights struggle, he continued his work in social justice with organizations such as MIFA, Friends...
business; Civil War; economy; family; law; military; politics; prisoners of war; public service;
Robert Fain Looney was a descendant of a Virginia family who pioneered in Tennessee. His great grandfather distinguished himself in the Revolutionary War, and both of his grandfathers were members of the convention that drew up Tennessee’s first...
Civil War; clergy; health; military; public service; religion; yellow fever;
Charles Carroll Parsons, Rector of St. Lazarus-Grace Episcopal Church, died September 6, 1878 while serving the people of Memphis during the terrible days of the 1878 yellow fever epidemic. Although he had served the congregation less than three...
This bibliography was prepared for the committee planning the Memphis observance of the Civil War Centennial. The bibliography is based on newspaper articles from the Information Files at the Cossitt Reference Library and the Goodwyn Institute...
Congress established the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, or Freedmen’s Bureau as it was commonly known, in March 1865 as the end of the Civil War drew near. An agency of the War Department, the Freedmen’s Bureau had two main...
Over many years the Memphis and Shelby County Room has collected print and photographic materials on the history of Memphis, Shelby County and the surrounding area. This collection of Harper’s Weekly Newspaper and Frank Leslie’s Illustrated...
