Manuscripts
Eudora Welty Collection (Z/0301)
Collection Details:
Collection Name and Number: Eudora Welty Collection (Z/0301).
Creator/Collector: Eudora Welty; and others.
Date(s): circa 1882-2016; n.d.
Size: Size Size cubic feet.
Language(s): English.
Provenance: Gift of Estate of Eudora Welty of Jackson, MS.
Repository: Archives & Records Services Division, Mississippi Department of Archives & History.
Ku Klux Klan Collection (Z/2432)
History:
The Original Knights of Louisiana, an independent klan organization, established a klavern (chapter) in Natchez, Adams County, Mississippi, around October 1962. The Natchez klavern split from the Original Knights of Louisiana and assumed the name of the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan of Mississippi in February 1964. The organization elected Samuel Holloway Bowers as imperial wizard in April 1964, and he served for five years. Throughout the 1960s, the Federal Bureau of Investigation monitored the activities of the klavern.
Madison County Civil Rights Movement Papers (Z/2430)
Collection Details:
Collection Name and Number: Madison County Civil Rights Movement Papers (Z/2430).
Creator/Collector: Madison County Movement, Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission, Madison County Sheriff’s Office, Canton Public Schools, Council of Federated Organizations (COFO).
Date(s): 1964.
Size: 1.25 cubic feet.
Language(s): English.
Processed by: Miranda Vaughn, 2026.
Mount Zion Presbyterian Church (Choctaw County) History (Z/2411)
Collection Details:
Collection Name and Number: Mount Zion Presbyterian Church (Choctaw County) History (Z/2411).
Creator/Collector: Mount Zion Presbyterian Church.
Date(s): 1873-1966.
Size: 0.33 cubic feet.
Language(s): English.
Processed by: MDAH staff, 1988; Reprocessed by William Smith, 2024.
Provenance: Gift of Mildred Dempsey Grissom of Germantown, TN, on March 29, 1988; Z/U/1999.035.
A.G. Wineman and Sons Invoice (Z/2425)
Collection Details:
Collection Name and Number: A.G. Wineman and Sons Invoice (Z/2425).
Creator/Collector: Unknown.
Date(s): March 15, 1920.
Size: 0.10 cubic feet.
Language(s): English.
Processed by: MDAH staff, Laura Heller, 2025.
Provenance: Purchase, on December 19, 2024; Z/U/2025.020.
Repository: Archives & Records Services Division, Mississippi Department of Archives & History.
Chamberlain Family Papers (Z/2355)
Collection Details:
Collection Name and Number: Chamberlain Family Papers (Z/2355).
Creator/Collector: Eric Chamberlain.
Date(s): 1790-2011.
Size: 5.16 cubic feet.
Language(s): English.
Processed by: Archie Skiffer, Jr., 2025.
Provenance: Gift of Eric Chamberlain of Natchez, Mississippi, on March 20, 2016; Z/U/2016.008.
Richard West Family Papers (Z/2420)
Collection Details:
Collection Name and Number: Richard West Family Papers (Z/2420).
Creator/Collector: Eliana West.
Date(s): 1949-1954.
Size: 0.40 cubic feet.
Language(s): English.
Processed by: MDAH Summer Intern Isabelle White, 2025.
Provenance: Gift of Eliana West, on June 27, 2025; Z/U/2025.018.
Repository: Archives & Records Services Division, Mississippi Department of Archives & History.
Black Lives Matter Protest Posters Collection (Z/2419)
Collection Details:
Collection Name and Number: Black Lives Matter Protest Posters Collection (Z/2419).
Creator/Collector: Mississippians attending the protest.
Date(s): June 6, 2020.
Size: 1.50 cubic feet.
Language(s): English.
Processed by: MDAH Summer Intern Isabelle White, 2025.
Provenance: Gift of Unidentified donor of Jackson, Mississippi, on June 6, 2020; Z/U/2020.023.
Canton High School Band Scrapbook (Z/2418)
Collection Details:
Collection Name and Number: Canton High School Band Scrapbook (Z/2418).
Creator/Collector: Patrick M. Harrison.
Date(s): 1949-1954.
Size: 0.40 cubic feet.
Language(s): English.
Processed by: MDAH Summer Intern Isabelle White, 2025.
Provenance: Gift of Patrick M. Harrison of Staunton, Virginia, on October 17, 2023; Z/U/2023.055.