Dates: 1942 - 1972.

Leland Speed (18991971) was a prominent business man and mayor of Jackson from 1945 to 1948. This collection contains:

  • correspondence (19421966)
  • material from the Mississippi Salvage for Victory Committee of which Speed was the chairman (1972)
  • booklets concerning Mayor Speed's march of progress (19451948)
  • material concerning city plans for a greater Jackson and a report of progress (19451949)
  • items on how city planning helped build Jackson (1944)
  • quarterly financial statements for the city of Jackson (19471948)
  • printed material from the First Baptist Church (January 3, 1943March 18, 1945)
  • speeches by Speed and his wife
  • news clippings
  • certificates and awards
  • photographs
  • scrapbooks containing news clippings and photographs related mostly to his term as mayor and to war-time salvage work
  • plaque from Standard Life Insurance