Collection Details:

Collection Name and Number: Jackson McWhirter Tubb Papers (Z/1240).
Creator/Collector: Jackson McWhirter Tubb.
Date(s): 1943-1974.
Size: Size size cubic feet.
Language(s): English.
Processed by: MDAH staff.
Provenance: Gift of Donor, of Place, State, on Date; Z/U/XXXX.XXX.
Repository: Archives & Records Services Division, Mississippi Department of Archives & History.

 

Rights and Access:

Access restrictions: Collection is open for research.

Publication rights: Copyright assigned to the MDAH. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to Reference Services. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the MDAH as the owner of the physical items and as the owner of the copyright in items created by the donor. Although the copyright was transferred by the donor, the respective creator may still hold copyright in some items in the collection. For further information, contact Reference Services.

Copyright notice: This material may be protected by copyright law (Title 17, U.S. Code).

Preferred citation: Jackson McWhirter Tubb Papers (Z/1240), Mississippi Department of Archives & History.

 

Biography:

Jackson McWhirter Tubb

Jackson McWhirter Tubb was born on July 9, 1899, at Hatley, Monroe County, Mississippi. He received his B. S. degree from Mississippi Southern College and his M. A. degree from the University of Mississippi. Tubb began his professional career in a one-teacher school in Mt. Carmel, Prentiss County. He then became Superintendent of High Schools in Prentiss, Perry, and Kemper Counties. Tubb also served as President of East Mississippi Junior College at Scooba. He was a member of the House of Representatives (Democrat) from Monroe County from 1928-1932. Tubb was first appointed State Superintendent of Education in July, 1945, by the late Governor Thomas L. Bailey on resignation of the late J. S. Vandiver. He was elected to his own term in 1947 and took office in 1948. Tubb was subsequently reelected until his retirement in 1968.

 

Scope and Content Note:

Scope and Content Note text to come.

 

Series Identification:

Series 1: Series title. Dates.

Series Description text to come.

Box 1, Folder 1

 

 

Folder List 

The loose papers have been arranged in numbered folders in the following order:

Folders 1 - 10Personal Correspondence
Folders 11 - 161947 Campaign File.
Folders 17 - 281951 Campaign File, Ads - Benton County.
Folders 29 - 461951 Campaign File, Brady - Crippled Children's Service.
Folders 47 - 731951 Campaign File, Calley - Lawrence.
Folders 74 - 911951 Campaign File, Leake - Neshoba.
Folders 92 - 1081951 Campaign File, Newsletters - Salaries.
Folders 109 - 1231951 Campaign File, Scott - Touchstone.
Folders 124 - 1401951 Campaign File, Touchstone - Rackly.
Folders 141 - 1491951 Campaign File, Parker - Rally Schedule.
Folders 150 - 1581951 Campaign File, Weekly Bulletin - Mississippi Veteran.
Folders 159 - 1701951 Campaign File, Valentine - Invoices.
Folders 171 - 1821951 Campaign File, Jacks - Owens.
Folders 183 - 1891951 Campaign File, Palmer - Weekly Bulletin (Final).
Folder 1901955 Campaign File, (No Campaign).
Folders 191 - 1961959 Campaign File, Applewhite - Busick.
Folders 197 - 2001959 Campaign File, Carruth - Expenditures.
Folders 201 - 2071959 Campaign File, Receipts - Photo of Tubb with Mauldin and Camp.
Folders 208 - 2171959 Campaign File, Clippings - Expenditures of June.
Folders 218 - 2221959 Campaign File, Kaly - McGhee.
Folders 223 - 2311951 Campaign File, Jones - North Hills Merchants Association.
Folders 232 - 2381959 Campaign File, O. H. V. Band Auxiliary - Stockton.
Folders 239 - 2461959 Campaign File, Sweat - Speaking Schedule.
Folders 247 - 2521959 Campaign File, Itinerary, late June through early July - Yarbrough.
Folders 253 - 2591963 Campaign File, Ad - Receipts.
Folders 260 - 2641963 Campaign File, Crain - Campaign Workers.
Folders 265 - 2701963 Campaign File, American Publishers - Education for the Sixties and Seventies.
Folders 271 - 27819653 Campaign File, Travel expenses - Ivy.
Folders 279 - 2821963 Campaign File, Receipt - Charles Sullivan Schedule.
Folders 283 - 2931963 Campaign File, Tubb speaking dates - Lowery.
Folders 294 - 3001963 Campaign File, Ad - Mississippi Press Association.
Folders 301 - 3061963 Campaign File, File, copy of letter - Ole Miss Investigation.
Folders 307 - 3141963 Campaign File, Carter - News Release.
Folders 315 - 3201963 Campaign File, Rally Announcement - WHHT Radio.
Folders 321 - 3301963 Campaign File, Wells - News Release.
Folders 331 - 3381963 Campaign File, WLBT TV Speech (8/26/63) - WLBT TV Speech (July 10).
Folders 339 - 3461963 Campaign File, Financial Report - Yow.
Folders 347 - 3571963 Campaign File, Office File, Alcohol Education in Institutions of Higher Learning - Holler.
Folders 358 - 3651963 Campaign File, Richards - The Brotherhood (First Presbyterian Church organization).
Folders 366 - 3741963 Campaign File, Commencement - Copiah - Lincoln Junior College - Budget Report.
Folders 375 - 3851963 Campaign File, Commencement Address - Blue Mountain College - Civitan Club notes (Clergy Day).
Folders 386 - 3981963 Campaign File, Dedication of Clinton High School Building - Speech by Tubb - Improvement of Elementary and Secondary Education.
Folders 399 - 4081963 Campaign File, Annual Meeting CCSSO, November 18 - 23, 1962 - Speech at Dexter School, May 19, 1965.
Folders 409 - 420Office Files. Commencement Address - Easom High School - Exceptional Education in Mississippi speech by Tubb, August 1, 1949
Folders 421 - 427Office Files, Annual Convention, FFA, June 26, 1962 - State Receipts and Expenditures of Township Interest (July l, 1951 - June 20, 1952).
Folders 428 - 435Office Files, Handout for 1947 campaign - School Transportation.
Folders 436 - 448Office Files, Inspirational Story (?) - Itawamba Junior College and Agricultural High School.
Folders 449 - 459Office Files, Financing the Public Schools, speech by G. J. Cain - Middleton.
Folders 460 - 469Office Files, School and Juvenile Delinquency - Leave for Professional Improvement.
Folders 470 - 483Office Files, Letter to Legislative Investigating Committee Looking at the South, address at Alcorn Commencement by Hodding Carter, May 17, 1948.
Folders 484 - 499Office Files, Program for Mississippi Association of School Administrators, 1951 - Mississippi for Public Education.
Folders 500 - 518Office Files, Speech by Tubb, Maben, Mississippi PTA - MEA Leadership Conference, July 20,1962, Holmes Junior College.
Folders 519 - 528Office Files, Speech by Tubb to MEA in 1964 - Mississippi Highway Safety Patrol Recruit Training School Schedule, September 23 - October 27, 1962.
Folders 529 - 532Office Files, Photo of St. Luke's Church - "What Is A Boy?".
Folders 533 - 536Office Files, List of Schools (?) - First Presbyterian Sunday School Roster.
Folders 537 - 543Office Files, Supreme Court Decisions - Receipt.
Folders 544 - 549Office Files, State Department of Education Financial Statement, January 1, 1964 - May 31, 19645 - - Annual meeting of Mississippi Petroleum Committee, January 17, 1962.
Folders 550 - 560Office Files, "Mississippians for Public Education", speech made by Tubb, November 30, 1965 - Commencement address at Mississippi Woman's College.
Folders 561 - 585Office Files, Speech made by Tubb at NAES Regional Conference, April 6 - 9, 1967 - Bennett.
Folders 586 - 596Office Files, Clipping from the newspapers The Clarion Ledger and Jackson Daily News pertaining to an Alabama PTA - Phi Theta Kappa National Convention, Speech given by Tubb on March 29, 1962.
Folders 597 - 603Speech given by Tubb at Vesper Service at Piney Woods School, January 7, 1968 - "How Good is Your Local School System?".
Folders 604 - 619Office Files, Progress Report of State Department of Education, 1959 - Radio talk of October 6, 1950 - WJXN.
Folders 620 - 627Office Files, "American Concept of Free Public Education" - Speech by Tubb on government and God.
Folders 628 - 640Office Files, News Release, March 2, 1967 - School Lunch Journal.
Folders 641 - 656Office Files, Services Provided by the School - Health Division of the State Department of Education and the State Board of Health - Southern School News, March 1965.
Folders 657 - 672Office Files, Newsclipping about Tubb - Speech given by Tubb at Administrators' Conference.
Folders 673 - 682Office Files, Tubb speech on public schools - SMEA talk by Tubb, October 8, 1965.
Folders 683 - 686Office Files, Inspirational Newsclipping - "Recessional" by Rudyard Kipling.
Folders 687 - 702Office Files, Tubb speech to Monroe County teachers, January 1958 - Dedication speech of Thomas Street School in Tupelo, February 6, 1966.
Folders 703 - 711Office Files, Average Classroom Teacher Salary Southern States - Vocational Education, February 28, 1953.
Folders 712 - 719Office Files, H. E. W. Financing of Vocational Rehabilitation Division "Our Youth in a Responsible Society" talk to Ladies Auxiliary, VFW, June 22, 1962.
Folders 720 - 734Office Files, MTA address by Walter Washington, MTA President - Zin (Mrs.).
Folders 735 - 736Certificates of Tubb and accompanying materials.
Folder 737Loose material from 1947 Campaign Scrapbook (see box list below)
Folder 738Loose material from 1951 Campaign Scrapbook (see box list below)
Folders 739 - 741Correspondence, U. S. S. Mullany - Sympathy letter pertaining to Tubb's mother dying from Davis.
Folders 742 - 746Correspondence, Correspondence with Coleman - Easom.
Folders 747 - 752Correspondence, Correspondence with Barnett.
Folders 753 - 758Correspondence, Correspondence with Ewing - "Get Well" correspondence and retirement festivities.
Folders 759 - 7601944 - Letters concerning employment, Hall.
Folders 761 - 762Civil Rights, Howe, U. S. Commissioner of Education - Federal Funds for 1964 - 1966.
Folders 763 - 766Civil Rights, Federal Guidelines and Forms - speaking engagements by staff of State Department of Education on Civil Rights Act.
Folder 767Civil Rights, Civil Rights Meetings (correspondence) with School Administrators in Mississippi, 1964.
Folders 768 - 770Civil Rights, Francis Keppel, U. S. Commissioner of Education and Civil Rights, 1964 - 1966 (I).
Folder 771Civil Rights, Harold Howe, II, U. S. Commissioner of Education and Civil Rights Ph: 89 - 10 January 1966 - July, 1967, supplement to (I).
Folder 772Photographs.
Folders 773 - 776Sunday School Material.
Folders 777 - 779Sunday School Material.
Folders 780 - 782Newspaper clippings, No date clippings - Clippings, 1944 - 1945.
Folders 783 - 784Newspaper clippings, January - May, 1946 - June - December 1946.
Folders 785 - 186Newspaper clippings, 1947 - January - August
Folders 787 - 789Newspaper clippings, September 1949 - 1950 - 1951 - 1960.
Folders 790 - 792Newspaper clippings, 1961 - 1962.
Folders 793 - 794Newspaper clippings, 1962 HCR - 30 - 1962 HCR - 30.
Folders 795 - 797Newspaper clippings, 1963 - 1964.
Folders 798 - 800Newspaper clippings, 1965 - 1966.
Folders 801 - 802Newspaper clippings, 1966 - January - September 1967.
Folders 803 - 807Newspaper clippings, Dedication of Tubb's portrait - Election material, 1927, 1959.
Folders 808 - 810Newspaper clippings, 1963, and 1967 School Amendment and Auditor's false claim against Tubb - General Clippings.
Folders 811 - 8131962 - September - December, 1967.
Folders 814 - 815Newsclippings, Clipping of Elected Officials for 1955 - Clippings pertaining to Textbooks.
 
Box List

Foldered and unfoldered material has been boxed as follows:

Box 1Folders 1, 2, 11, 19 - 28, 30 - 36
Box 2Folders 3 - 10, 12 - 16
Box 3Folders 17, 18, 29, 43 - 45, 63, 121 - 124, 138
Box 4Folders 37 - 42, 46, 47 - 62, 64 - 73, 74 - 76
Box 5Folders 77 - 91; 92 - 104
Box 6Folders 105 - 120, 125 - 137, 146
Box 7Folders 139 - 145, 147 - 149, 150 - 154
Box 8Folders 190, 192 - 193, 196 - 197, 203 - 207, 209 - 210, 212
Box 9Folders 155 - 158, 160 - 170
Box 10Folders 171 - 185
Box 11Folders 186 - 189, 191, 194 - 195
Box 12Folder 737 and 1947 campaign scrapbook
Box 13Folder 738 and 1951 campaign scrapbook
Box 14Folders 198 - 201, 208, 211, 214
Box 15Folders 202, 653, 656, 735 736
Box 16Folders 213, 215 - 221, 223 - 225, 229, 231
Box 17Folders 222, 226, 228, 233, 235, 237, 239 - 240, 242, 243, 245, 247, 250
Box 18Folders 227, 232, 234, 236, 238, 241, 244, 246, 248 - 249, 251 - 252
Box 19Folders 253 - 259, 260 - 262, 264, 266 - 267
Box 20Folders 263, 265, 280, 294 - 300
Box 21Folders 268 - 270, 271 - 279, 281 - 282
Box 22Folders 283 - 293, 304 - 306, 307, 309 - 312, 314
Box 23Folders 301 - 303, 308, 313, 316 - 318, 320
Box 24Folders 315, 319, 322 - 326, 328, 331 - 334, 337 - 338
Box 25Folders 321, 327, 329, 330, 335 - 336, 339, 344, 349, 350, 351, 362, 370, 374, 378, 379
Box 26Folders 340 - 343, 345 - 348, 352 - 356, 358 - 359
Box 27Folders 360 - 363, 365 - 369, 371 - 373, 375 - 377
Box 28Folders 381, 386, 395, 400 - 401, 437 - 438, 442, 447 - 448, 451, 463, 470, 502, 515
Box 29Folders 387 - 393, 395 - 399, 402 - 414
Box 30Folders 415 - 527
Box 31Folders 428 - 436, 439 - 441, 443 - 446
Box 32Folders 449 - 450, 452 - 459, 460 - 462, 464 - 469, 471 - 472
Box 33Folders 473 - 495
Box 34Folders 496 - 501, 503 - 514, 516 - 526
Box 35Folders 527 - 528, 531, 533 - 536
Box 36Folders 529 - 530, 532, 544, 546 - 549
Box 37Folders 538 - 542, 545, 565
Box 38Folders 537, 543, 803
Box 39Folders 550 - 564, 567 - 571, 573 - 575
Box 40Folders 566, 572, 577, 609, 629, 635, 661 - 663, 672
Box 41Folders 576, 578 - 601
Box 42Folders 602 - 608, 610 - 619
Box 43Folders 620 - 628, 630 - 634, 636 - 640
Box 44Folders 640 - 656, 658 - 660, 664 - 671
Box 45Folders 683, 685, 691 - 693, 701, 708 - 709, 713, 718, 741
Box 46Folders 673 - 682, 684, 686 - 690, 694 - 700, 702
Box 47Folders 703 - 707, 710 - 712, 714 - 717, 719 - 721
Box 48Folders 722 - 734, 739a, 739b
Box 49Date Books, 1939 - 1968
Box 50Folders 744 - 750
Box 51Folders 740a, 740b, 742, 743
Box 52Folders 751, 753 - 754, 760
Box 53Folders 752, 755 - 758, 762
Box 54Folders 759, 772
Box 55Folders 751, 763 - 764
Box 56Folders 765 - 766, 768a, 768b
Box 57Folders 767, 804 - 805
Box 58Folders 769 - 771
Box 59Folders 773 - 776
Box 60Folders 777 - 779
Box 61Folders 780 - 782
Box 62Folders 783 - 784
Box 63Folders 785 - 786
Box 64Folders 787 - 789
Box 65Folders 790 - 792
Box 66Folders 793 - 795
Box 67Folders 796 - 799
Box 68Folders 800 - 802
Box 69Folders 808, 811 - 813
Box 70Folders 806 - 807, 809 - 810
Box 71Folders 814 - 815, publications
Box 72Publications
Box 73Publications
Box 74Publications
Box 75Oversized newspapers