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Finding aid for the Russell Barrett Collection

MUM00024

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Summary Information

Repository
University of Mississippi Libraries
Title
Russell Barrett Collection
ID
MUM00024
Date [inclusive]
1959-1970
Extent
11.0 Linear feet, 18 boxes + 3 oversize boxes

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Scope and Contents note

Material concerning James Meredith's admission to UM, race relations, and Barrett's book. Taped interview, transcribed, restricted. Also restricted manuscript on William Faulkner.

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Administrative Information

Publication Information

University of Mississippi Libraries

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Controlled Access Headings

Personal Name(s)

  • Barrett, Russell H.

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Collection Inventory

Box 1 

Folder 1 

Russell H. Barrett biographical information. 

Folder 2 

Correspondence. 1959. 

Folder 3 

Correspondence. 1960. 

Folder 4 

T. L. S. from Dave Berkman to Barrett. 20 April 1966. 

Photocopy of The Realist with article by Berkman regarding University of Mississippi. March/April 1961. 

Folder 5 

Correspondence. 1961. 

Folder 6 

Correspondence. 1962. 

Folder 7 

T. L. S. from Clifford P. Case, Senator, to Barrett. 7 February 1963. 

Press release from Case regarding Commission on Congressional Reorganization. 

Folder 8 

Correspondence. 1963. 

Folder 9 

Mimeography copy of T. L. from Barrett to Editor of New York Times. 28 August 1964. 

Folder 10 

Correspondence. 1964. 

Folder 11 

Correspondence. 1964. 

Folder 12 

Correspondence. 1965. 

Box 2 

Folder 1 

T. L. from Russell Barrett to Editor of Commercial Appeal regarding Robert F. Kennedy visit to UM. 28 February 1966. 

Folder 2 

Xerox copy of A. L. from "Concerned Friend," Jackson to Barrett and xerox copy of pamphlet,"Will You Be in Heaven?". 2 April 1966. 

Folder 3 

Correspondence and clippings from Robert E. Lee, Batesville, to Barrett. 1966. Scope Note: (See additional letters in oversize Box #21.) These letter came bound together with rubber band in manila folder marked "Letters from Screwball." 

Folder 4 

Correspondence. 1966. 

Folder 5 

Correspondence. 1966. 

Folder 6 

Correspondence. 1967. 

Folder 7 

Correspondence. 1968. 

Folder 8 

Correspondence. 1969. 

Folder 9 

Correspondence. 1970. 

Folder 10 

Correspondence. 1971. 

Folder 11 

Correspondence. 1972. 

Folder 12 

Correspondence. 1974. 

Folder 13 

Correspondence. undated. 

Box 3 

Folder 1 

James H. Meredith v. Charles Fair, Board of Trustees, Institutions of Higher Learning, Mississippi: First Brief; Affidavit; Notes on Trial Testimony. 1961. 

Folder 2 

Correspondence and sermons re: Oxford religious community reaction of James Meredith enrollment and riots. September-October, 1962. 

Folder 3 

Resolution by a group of Mississippians opposing integration of the University of Mississippi, supporters names and addresses in type. 1 October 1962. 

Folder 4 

A Report by the General Legislative Investigating Committee to the Mississippi State Legislature regarding: Occupation of the University of Mississippi. 30 September 1962. 

Folder 5 

University of Mississippi report on the James Meredith case. 15 November 1962. 

Folder 6 

Statements made by Barrett regarding the enrollment of Meredith and riots. October 1962. 

Folder 7 

Typewritten statement by [Barrett] regarding treatment of Meredith by University of Mississippi students. c. 1962-63. 

Folder 8 

"Crisis at the University of Mississippi," by Barrett given at A. A. U. P. meeting in South Carolina. 30 November 1962. 

Folder 9 

"The Future of Higher Education in Mississippi," a speech by Barrett delivered at the Forest Lion's Club. 22 October 1962. 

Folder 10 

"The Mississippi Story," an address by Barrett regarding enrollment of James H. Meredith at A. A. U. P. meeting in Nashville. 22 February 1963. 

Folder 11 

"Integration at the University of Mississippi," address delivered at University of Illinois, and itinerary. November 1963. 

Folder 12 

Press release regarding Barrett's address, "Integration at the University of Mississippi," in Chicago. 1963. 

Folder 13 

Notebook containing "Questions for Meredith Book". undated. 

Folder 14 

Spiral bound notebook with notes regarding Meredith's enrollment. c. 1962. 

Folder 15 

Outline of the office of U. S. Marshal. 25 March 1963. 

Folder 16 

Miscellaneous notes regarding the integration of the University of Mississippi. c. 1962. 

Folder 17 

Articles re: integration of University of Mississippi, James Meredith, and race. various dates. 

Folder 18 

Statements by University of Mississippi faculty, administrators, students and Mississippi officials regarding the events surrounding James Meredith's enrollment at UM. October 1962. 

Folder 19 

Statements, reports, memos and other material from UM faculty, administrators and students re: Meredith enrollment. October 1962. 

Folder 20 

"Integration at Ole Miss -- 1966 Model," address delivered by Barrett in New York City. 20 May 1966. 

Folder 21 

Report on the application of Cleveland Donald Jr. to University of Mississippi by Barrett. 1964. 

Folder 22 

Statement by [Barrett] regarding expulsion of Cleve McDowell. 22 September 1963. 

Folder 23 

Temporary restraining order in the case of Cleveland Donald v. T. J. Tubb. 10 June 1964. 

Box 4 

Folder 1 

Statement by University of Mississippi students re: Academic Freedom at UM. 1963. 

Folder 2 

Correspondence and related material regarding speech on University of Mississippi integration by Barrett at A. A. U. P. meeting in South Carolina. 1962. 

Folder 3 

"Academic Freedom at Ole Miss," by Russell Barrett. undated. 

Folder 4 

Material regarding Academic Freedom at Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical College. undated. 

Folder 5 

Mimeograph copies of typescript of telegrams received regarding University of Mississippi A. A. U. P. statement. 3 October 1962. 

Folder 6 

Material regarding tenure at the University of Mississippi. 

Folder 7 

American Association of University Professors correspondence. 

Folder 8 

American Association of University Professors material. 

Folder 9 

American Association of University Professors material. 

Folder 10 

American Association of University Professors material. 

Folder 11 

Miscellaneous material regarding academic freedom. 

Box 5 

Folder 1 

Report on Dr. Barrett's lectures by student, Tommy Malouf, describes what Barrett discussed in class over a four week period. 4 May 1966. 

Folder 2 

Notes from Barrett conversation with Representative Ted Millette. 27 March 1970. 

Folder 3 

Omicron Delta Kappa material. 

Folder 4 

Press release from U. S. Commission on Civil Rights. 14 November 1965. 

Folder 5 

Stenographic notebook with notes regarding civil rights. undated. 

Folder 6 

Typescript of address by Barrett at Methodist Youth Fellowship Rally, Starkville. 16 April 1966. 

Folder 7 

"Some Comments on School Integration," by Barrett. 22 February 1970. 

Folder 8 

Correspondence and other material relating to Barrett's article, "Curse the Darkness," printed in Nation. 1966. 

Folder 9 

James Silver address, "Mississippi: The Closed Society," delivered before the Southern Historical Association, reprint of article from Journal of Southern History, and clippings. 7 November 1963. 

Folder 10 

Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party Information Bulletin. undated. 

Folder 11 

Correspondence regarding visits to Mississippi by Out-Of-State professors. 1964. 

Folder 12 

Chancellor Porter Fortune from faculty regarding disciplinary action against black students. 16 March 1970. 

Memo from Fortune. 19 March 1970. 

Folder 13 

Material regarding University of Mississippi Professor of Law, William Murphy. 1959 - 1961. 

Folder 14 

"The SPD: New Style," by Robert Clute. undated. 

Folder 15 

Part of untitled address by [Barrett]. undated. 

Folder 16 

Photocopies of pages from the Congressional Record. 

Box 6 

Folder 1 

Congressman Frank Smith's Newsletter. 7 May 1962. 

"Frank Smith for Congressman" card. undated. 

Folder 2 

Washington Report from John Stennis. 18 December 1963 and 28 May 1964. 

Folder 3 

Transcript of Robert F. Kennedy address at University of Mississippi School of Law. 18 March 1966. 

Folder 4 

Xerox copy of notes from harassing phone call received by Barrett. 13 April 1966. 2 copies. 

Folder 5 

"Roads and Ruts in Mississippi," address by Barrett delivered at Rust College. 1966. 

Folder 6 

Material regarding off-campus speaker controversy. 1968. 

Folder 7 

Correspondence and legal brief re: Stacy v. Williams and Cupit v. Roberts. 1970. 

Folder 8 

Memo from M. M. Roberts, Attorney, to Members of the Board re: Stacy v. Williams and Cupit v. Roberts. 1970. 

Folder 9 

Material regarding speaker requests at University of Mississippi campus. 1970. 

Folder 10 

Photocopy of article "Mississippi Schools in Crisis," by W. F. Minor, New South. 1970. 

Folder 11 

Material on research project re: Voter Registration. 

Folder 12 

Material re: Mississippi Council on Human Relations. 

Folder 13 

Mississippi Summer Project and COFO. 1964. 

Folder 14 

Southern Student Organizing Committee. 

Folder 15 

Notes by Barrett re: Aspects of Black and White Conflict. undated. 

Folder 16 

"Soldiers of America," carbon copy of leaflet and clipping re: University of Mississippi students and John F. Kennedy. 1962. 

Box 7 

Folder 1 

"Integration at Ole Miss: An Introduction," mimeograph copy of typescript with corrections. undated. 

Folder 2 

Chapter 1, "Building the Wall," carbon copy of typescript with corrections. undated. 

Folder 3 

Chapter 1, "Building of a Wall," mimeograph copies and original typescript with corrections and handwritten notes. undated. 

Folder 4 

Chapter 1, "The Cast of Characters," mimeograph copy of typescript and original typescript with corrections and notes. undated. 

Folder 5 

Untitled remains of Chapter 1, mimeograph copies, original typescript and handwritten notes. undated. 

Folder 6 

Chapter 2, "In the Eerie Atmosphere of Never-Never Land," mimeograph copies, typescript and handwritten notes. undated. 

Folder 7 

Chapter 2, "In the Eerie Atmosphere of Never-Never Land," and Chapter 3, "None So Blind," mimeograph copies of typescript with handwritten corrections. undated. 

Folder 8 

Chapter 4, "Blueprint for Riot," mimeograph copy of typescript with handwritten notes. undated. 

Folder 9 

Chapter 4, "Blueprint for Riot," mimeograph copy of typescript and original typescript with notes. undated. 

Folder 10 

Chapter 5, "A Night of Violence," mimeograph copy of typescript and original typescript with corrections. undated. 

Folder 11 

Chapter 6, "Blueprint for Success," mimeograph copy of typescript, uncorrected. undated. 

Folder 12 

Chapter 6, "Integration versus Disintegration," typescript with corrections. undated. 

Folder 13 

Publishing agreement, correspondence and other material from Quadrangle Books, Chicago re: Barrett's Integration at Ole Miss. 1964-66. 

Folder 14 

Integration at Ole Miss, book reviews. 

Folder 15 

Miscellaneous Book Notes. 

Box 8 

Folder 1 

U. S. House of Representatives Report No. 914, re: Civil Rights. 20 June 1963. 

Folder 2 

Public Laws No. 88-352 (1964) and 89-236 (1965) re: Voting Rights and Immigration. 

Folder 3 

"Emergency Employment of Army Resources, Civil Disturbances Report No. 500-50". February 1964. 

Folder 4 

Platform Proposals of the AFL-CIO to the Republican and Democratic National Conventions. 1964. 

Folder 5 

The University of Mississippi Ten Year Report. c. 1956. 

Folder 6 

Three Views of the Segregation Decision: William Faulkner, Benjamin Mays and Cecil Sims. 1956. 

Folder 7 

Pamphlets: "Oxford: A Warning for Americans" and "Operation Ole Miss". 1962. 

Folder 8 

Dedicated to the Proposition: The Editorial of Ira Harkey from the Pascagoula and Moss Point Chronicle. 1963. 

Folder 9 

Christianity and Crisis re: Race Prejudice. 29 October 1962. 

Folder 10 

"The Oxford Disaster... Price of Defiance," by Karl Wiesenburg. 17-21 December 1962. 

Folder 11 

"The Voting Rights Act... The First Months," printed by the U. S. Commission on Civil Rights. 1965. 

Folder 12 

The Dan Smoot Report re: UM Integration. October 8 & 15, 1962. 

Folder 13 

"Civil Disorders, U. S. A.: Reports and Recommendations," distributed by Church in Metropolis. undated. 

Folder 14 

"The Murder of the Young President," by Merriman Smith, UPI. c. 1963. 

Folder 15 

The Key Reporter. Winter 1962-63Spring 1964. 

Folder 16 

Granite, published by the University of Mississippi Young Americans for Freedom. 17 March 1969. 2 copies. 

Folder 17 

"Klansman... Someone Knows Who You Are," Postcard. 1966. 

Folder 18 

Tougaloo College, Jackson, Mississippi pamphlet. undated. 2 copies. 

Folder 19 

"Paul B. Johnson, Jr. for Governor" pamphlet. undated. 

Folder 20 

"Mississippi Democrat -- Constitutional Conservative" leaflet. 1963. 

Folder 21 

Envelope stamped "Mailed in Occupied Mississippi". 1962. 

Folder 22 

"The Knights of the Ku Klux Klan is [sic] Watching You," postcard mailed to Barrett. 1965. 

Folder 23 

"Honorary Nigger," card mailed to Barrett. 1962. 

Folder 24 

Ole Miss Coloring Book. c. 1962. 2 copies. 

Folder 25 

"Yankee Go Home," leaflet. undated. 

Folder 26 

"McNamara's (New Frontier) Band" music and lyrics published the Rebel Underground. undated. 

Folder 27 

"The South Will Rise Again". undated. 3 copies. 

Folder 28 

N. A. A. C. P. Membership Application (parody). undated. 

Folder 29 

Rebel Underground Membership Application (parody). undated. 

Folder 30 

"The Ole Miss Dubious Achievement Awards and Christmas Gifts for 1963". 1963. 

Folder 31 

K. K. K. Rally Leaflet, Sardis, MS. 7 October 1967. 

Folder 32 

John Birch Society Pamphlet. undated. 

Folder 33 

"A Southern Observance," parody of Ross Barnett. undated. 

Folder 34 

"Famous Quotations," pamphlets quoting Theodore Bilbo and Henry Grady, printed by The Citizens' Council. undated. 

Folder 35 

N. A. A. C. P. Legal Defense Fund material. 1964. 

Folder 36 

"To All White "Parents from Parents for Segregation," Jackson, Mississippi. 1966. 

Folder 37 

"To the Citizens of Greenwood and LeFlore County from 'Working Citizens'," leaflet re: Head Start Program. undated. 

Folder 38 

Broadside with John and Robert Kennedy political cartoons. undated. 

Folder 39 

Paul Flower's Greenhouse. 18 January 1963. 6 copies. 

Folder 40 

Soul Force. 28 March 1974. 

Folder 41 

The Voice of the Movement: Nonviolent Agitation Association of College Pupils. 9 March 1964. 

Folder 42 

"America's Tomorrow," a series of editorials published by Jackson State Times. October 1958. 

Folder 43 

Descant: Posthaste, Volume 4, No. 4. 

Folder 44 

Rebel Underground. October 1962January 6, 1963January 12, 1963February 19, 1963March 1964April 27, 1965. 

Folder 45 

Reprints from The Pascagoula Chronicle re: Carlton Putnam's Race and Reason. 1963. 

Box 9 

Folder 1 

Ledger Book with business records. 1966. 

Folder 2 

Recommendations for students. 

Folder 3 

Research project material re: Australian politics. 1961-64. 

Folder 4 

Social Science Research Council Material. 

Folder 5 

Promises and Performance in Australian Politics by Barnett. 1963. 

Folder 6 

Supply Catalogs, Order Forms and Invoices. 

Folder 7 

Research paper by Jess White on Connally Amendment. May 1966. 

Folder 8 

"American Policy in Asia," speech by Barrett with handwritten notes. undated. 

Folder 9 

Barrett, "Motivation and Causation in War," The Southwestern Social Science Quarterly, Volume 22, No. 1. 

Folder 10 

"American Goals and Communism," speech delivered by Barrett at Mississippi Conference for Junior College Social Science Instructors. 10 March 1961. 

Folder 11 

"A Proposal for Trading Ph.D.'s from Minority and Poverty Backgrounds," by Barrett. undated. 

Box 10 

Folder 1 

Report on Fulbright Program in Australia. 1963. 

Folder 2 

Correspondence from Virginia Polytechnic Institute re: Job Search. 1970. 

Folder 3 

Material re: Communism in United States. 

Folder 4 

Xerox copies of clippings. 

Folder 5 

Material re: Barrett manuscript "Promises and Performance in Australian Politics". undated. 

Folder 6 

Miscellaneous. 

Box 12 

Clippings. 

Box 13 

Clippings. 

Box 14 

Clippings. 

Box 15 

Duplicates from Barrett Collection. 

Box 16 

Duplicates from Barrett Collection. 

Box 17 

Barrett, "Responsible Government in Australia". 

Barrett, "My Soul is Weary of My Life". 

Barrett, "The Political Ideas of William Faulkner". RESTRICTED. 

Box 18 

Duplicates from Barrett Collection. 

Box 19 

Duplicates from Barrett Collection. 

Box 20 

Periodicals and Journals. 

Box 21 

Newspapers.