Feemster family; Gaston family; Breastfeeding; Furuncle; Traditional medicine; Feemster, Alexander Whitfield, 1827-1911; Lowndes County (Miss.)
Letter from Loulie Feemster to her husband, Alex W. Feemster, in Selma, Alabama, mainly regarding a boil on her breast, which makes it difficult to feed their baby, Mattie. The doctor recommended that she use ''Tansy poultice'' on it, but she...
Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson); 1822-1885;Civil War;Politicians Presidents;Politics and government;Generals
The Chronology of Ulysses S. Grant's life is extracted from the 31 volumes of the Papers of Ulysses S. Grant and is presented here as a full-length time line of Grant's life.
Stennis, John Cornelius, D-MS; United States Senate
Constituent commends Senator Stennis on his Anti-Civil Rights stance; Senator Stennis stresses the importance of Democratic control of US Senate instead of the Presidency.
Stennis, John Cornelius, D-MS; Mississipi Summer Project; COFO; Council of Federated Organizations; CORE; Congress of Racial Equality; SNICK; SNCC; Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee;
Senator Stennis discusses the details of the Mississippi Summer Project.
Stennis, John Cornelius, D-MS; Collins, LeRoy Thomas; Civil Rights;
Senator Stennis expresses his thoughts on Civil Rights and the appointment of former Governor LeRoy Collins to director of Community Relations Services.
Stennis, John Cornelius, D-MS; Hoover, John Edgar; F.B.I.; Federal Bureau of Investigation; Civil Rights;
Senator Stennis enters into a series of correspondences with a Mississippi Attorney and J. Edgar Hoover. This dialogue is calling into question the practices of agents in the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
