Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation; Mississippi Cooperative Extension Service; Farmers; African-Americans; Corn; Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical College
Correspondence between Mose S. Shaw and Boswell Stevens about the 1951 ''Negro Farm and Home Week'' at Alcorn A&M College, as well as an itinerary and list of Negro farmers who produced 100 bushels or more of corn per acre..
Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation; Agriculture; Crops; Cotton; Corn; Soybeans
1952 Production Goals for Cotton, Corn, and Soybeans for Mississippi By Type of Farming Areas and By Counties With Comparisons to 1951 Production Guides.
Nash, Ira Marion, 1843-1862; Nash, John Jasper Newton, 1829-1911; Nash, James H., 1844-1890; Nash, Wiley Norris, 1846-1906; Nash, Stephen Evans, 1807-1863; Nash, Ira Norris, 1805-1863; Nash family; Civil war; United States; Confederate States of...
Letter, E. J. (Elvira Jane) Nash, probably from the home of her uncle Ira Norris Nash in Neshoba County, Mississippi, to cousin Carrie concerning her desire for news of her brother Jimmy serving in Wirt Adams Cavalry Regiment, news of the Battle of...
Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation; National Cotton Council of America; Cotton; Cottonseed; Soybean industry; Agriculture and state; Economic policy
Address delivered by Dupuy Bateman, president of the National Cottonseed Products Association for 1957, concerning cotton oil seed and soybean industry issues, with an accompanying letter from William Rhea Blake to Boswell Stevens about it.
Agriculture--Mississippi.; Industrialization--Mississippi.; Balance Agriculture with Industry (Miss.); Mississippi--Economic policy.; Mississippi Agricultural and Industrial Board.
Mississippi state law ""Balance Agriculture with Industry,"" 1944, from House Bill 176.
Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation; United States. Congress. Senate.; Agricultural prices; Agricultural price supports; Agriculture and state; Eisenhower, Dwight David, Pres. U.S., 1890-1969
Bankrupt Farm Prices - The Gateway to a Depression, speech made by U.S. Senator John C. Stennis (Mississippi) on the Senate Floor, on January 29, 1953. Concerns agricultural price supports and his support for a bill to continue mandatory supports...
Education--Mississippi--Oktibbeha County.; Schools--Mississippi--Oktibbeha County.; Wallace, S. J., 1870-1919.
Circular from Oktibbeha County Superintendent of Education S. J. Wallace, encouraging teachers, patrons, and pupils of the Oktibbeha County Schools to attend a big barbecue in support of public education.
Issaquena Co. (Miss.) ; Conner, H. D.--Family. ; Schabilion, Robert J. (Bob)--Family.;farm life--Mississippi.
H. D. Conner family farm [Robert J. (Bob) Schabilion, manager]; multiple views. Farm of 9000 acres located near Tallula, MS on Highway 1, about 11 miles south of Mayersville. Robert J. (Bob) Schabilion (farm manager) and family are the subject of...
Education--Mississippi--Prentiss County.; Booneville High School (Booneville, Miss.)--Pictorial works.; Teaching--Mississippi--Prentiss County.;
Announcement for the Booneville Institute, a teacher education course to be held at the old Booneville High School, by D.A. Hill, Superintendent of Education for Prentiss County.
Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation; Agriculture; Scott County (Miss.); United States. Congress. Senate; Cotton; Economic policy; Agriculture and state; Farm income; Delta Council
Testimony of C. R. Sayre of the Delta County concerning agricultural matters, before the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry. 1955
Slavery; African-Americans; Civil war; United States; Sparta (Miss.); Men's clothing; Martin, Thomas Nelson, 1807-1886
Letter from H. S. Jemison in Sparta, Mississippi, to Judge Thomas Nelson Martin, regarding Jemison's plan to join a camp in Florida and his need for money for new clothes for the army. He also writes about slave matters, including discussion of...
Civil war; Agriculture; United States; Fort Sumter (Charleston, S.C.); Jackson (Miss.)
Letter to Eudora Hobbs in Salem, North Carolina, from her cousin, N. H. Boyd, in Jackson, Mississippi, telling her about the local excitement over Virginia's secession from the Union. She writes that military companies are passing through...
Slavery; Slave trade; Slaveholders; Abolitionists; Christian literature; Artists; Annexation; Texas; Natchez (Miss.); Saint Louis (Mo.); New Orleans (La.); Mobile (Ala.)
Letter from an unidentified illustrator of Indians who is publishing a book, from Natchez, Mississippi, to his wife in Vermont, 1853. The writer criticizes the institution of slavery and believes that a civil war is the only hope of ending it. He...
Business; Feemster family; Gaston family; Sewing; Fabric; Clothing and dress; Poetry; Civil war; United States; Oaths; Race relations; African-Americans; Tennessee; Courtship; Lowndes County (Miss.); Stainback, George Tucker, 1829-1902; Feemster,...
Letter, Loulie Feemster, Bigbee Bottom, Mississippi, to her husband, Alex W. Feemster, in Selma, Alabama, opening with news of church and business. She lists the fabrics she bought for clothes and includes a humorous limerick about wives spending...
Cumberland Presbyterian Church; Selma (Ala.); Clergy; Religious gatherings; Military chaplains; Civil war; United States; Campbell, John P., 1801-1868; Cowan, Samuel Montgomery, 1801-1881; Chadick, William Davidson, 1817-1878; Borah, Jacob T.,...
Minutes of Cumberland Presbyterian Church convention held in Selma, Alabama, in 1863. Includes roll of ministers and elders present on each day of the convention, most from Alabama and Tennessee. The convention established committees for a...
