Websites with information:
http://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/collection/data/70972036
[0701] A. Eugene Cox Papers, 1953-1968, Small Manuscripts (b1976.3) [digital collection]
Location: The Department of Archives and Special Collections, J.D. Williams Library, The University of Mississippi, P.O. Box 1848, University, MS 38677-1848
Description: A. Eugene Cox (1905-1992) was former resident director of Providence Cooperative Farm, Holmes County, Mississippi, and later executive director of the Delta Foundation. The papers include newspaper clippings from 1955 discussing a mass meeting under the auspices of the pro-segregation White Citizens Councils in which Cox and Dr. David R. Minter were "invited" to leave Holmes County for allegedly teaching racial integration. The clippings include John Herbers, "Citizens Councils Behind Tchula 'Protest' Meeting," ca. Sept. 28, 1955; "Angry Citizens Ask White Men to Leave. Pair Accused of Advocating Racial Integration in Holmes County," ca. Sept. 29, 1955; "Memo To Some Holmes Countians" [editorial], Delta Democrat-Times, Friday, Sept. 30, 1955; Kenneth Toler, "[missing text] Over Farm Project Activities," ca. Sept. 30, 1955; Tom Karsell, "Accused Holmes Men Deny 'Red' Charges; Claim They Not Listed As Subversives," ca. late Sept. 1955; W.F. Minor, "Cox, Minter 'Bewildered' at Requests by Citizens," Times-Picayune, ca. Oct. 2, 1955; and "Elders Ask Minister to Resign in Durant," Commercial Appeal, ca. Oct. 7, 1955.
Websites with information:
http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/general_library/archives/finding_aids/MUM00400.html
http://www.library.olemiss.edu/guides/archives_subject_guide/civil-rights?page=show
Finding aid for digital collection (from the Civil Rights Archive, University of Mississippi):
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[0702] Allen Eugene Cox papers, 1880-1996 (bulk 1935-1987), MSS.45
Location: Special Collections Department, Mississippi State University Libraries, 395 Hardy Rd, P.O. Box 5408, Mississippi State, MS 39762-5408
Description: Cox (1905-1992) was former resident director of Providence Cooperative Farm, Holmes County, Mississippi, and later executive director of the Delta Foundation. The papers include correspondence, ledgers, newspaper clippings, publications, photographs and films. Series 1. Original Accession, 1967-1970, contains files on Alabama State Sovereignty Commission; Association of Christian Conservatives; Ross Barnett; Byron De La Beckwith; Letter: Hodding Carter to Cox, 12/8/1965; 'The Southern Patriot,' July 1946; Report on White Citizens' Councils by H. L. Mitchell, 1956; 'A Christian View on Segregation' by Rev. G.T. Gillespie, 1954 [online at http://digilib.usm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/manu/id/1880]; Circuit Riders; a copy of The Citizens' Council; Communism-Socialism; Senator James O. Eastland; Oliver Emmerich, "A Positive Plan to Help Solve Our Racial Dilemma," Editorial, State Times, Jackson, Mississippi, Nov. 3, 1961; Federation for Constitutional Government; Percy Greene; Group Research Report; Highlander Folk School; "Highlander Folk School Communist Training School, Monteagle, Tenn." (Georgia Commission on Education, 1957); John Kasper; Ku Klux Klan; "McCarthy: A Documented Record," The Progressive, Vol. 18, No. 4, April 1954 [online at http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/tp/id/63472]; Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission; National Council of Churches-Air Force Manual; Form letter from R. B. Patterson, Secretary, Citizens' Council; Robert L. Rands, "A Mississippi Anthropologist Takes a Scientific Look at Putnam's 'Race and Reason,'" The Chronicle, Pascagoula and Moss Point, Miss., Jan. 21-24, 1963; a copy of 'Rebel Underground'; A Review of Black Monday, by Judge Tom Brady (1954); John C. Satterfield; School Desegregation-Mississippi; address by William J. Simmons, 2/3/1958; correspondence (copies): W. J. Simmons (Pres. of Citizens' Council Forum Inc. (Miss.)) to Erle Johnston, Jr. (Dir. of Miss. State Sovereignty Commission); Senator John Stennis; White Christian Protective and Legal Defense Fund; White Citizens' Council-Alabama; White Citizens' Council-Arkansas; White Citizens' Councils; White Citizens' Councils-Freedom Rides-Reverse, 1962; White Citizens' Councils-Jackson Mississippi; White Citizens' Councils-Tennessee; White Citizens' Legal Fund, Greenwood, Mississippi; The Woman Constitutionalist, Feb. 6, 1965; Press release by Mary D. Cain, president, Miss. Women for Constitutional Government. Series 2. 1971 Addendum, contains files on Citizens Council; xerox copy of 'The Klan Ledger', July, 1965; xerox copy of 'The Klansman'; Ku Klux Klan; and School Desegregation. Series 3. 1972 Addendum, contains files on Americans for the Preservation of the White Race, Byron De La Beckwith, and Governor George Wallace. Series 4. 1973 Addendum, contains files on Citizen's Councils, 1955-1972, including a copy of Reese Cleghorn, Radicalism: Southern Style. A Commentary on Regional Extremism of the Right, Southern Regional Council, 1968; National States Rights Party, 1972 and undated, including copies of "The Historical Documentation of the Benjamin Franklin Statement", pub. by Dr. Edward R. Fields, Georgia, and J.B. Stoner, "Christ Not a Jew---"; John Birch Society, 1961-1971, with clippings, pamphlets, lists of right wing radio programs, lists of right wing periodicals; Churches Burned, 1964-1970; Group Research, 1963-1968, including copies of 'Group Research Report', vol.2, nos. 11-15, 18-24, 1963; vol. 3, nos. 1-3, 6,7,12-19, 1964; Vol. 5, nos. 18-22, 1966; Vol. 6, nos. 2-10, 12-20, 22-24, 1967; Vol. 7, nos. 4-11, 1968; Ku Klux Klan: 1, 1939-1972; Ku Klux Klan: 2, 1972, with copies of Fiery Cross, Vol. 7, No. 1, 3-12, 1972; Governor George Wallace, American Party: 1, 1972, with a copy of Gary Allen, None Dare Call It Conspiracy, 1972; Governor George Wallace, American Party: 2, 1972; Governor George Wallace, American Party: 3, 1972; Governor George Wallace, American Party: 4, 1972; Mass Meeting-J.P. Coleman, 1955; Cox & Minter-Holmes County: 1, 1955; Cox & Minter-Holmes County: 2, 1955-1957; and Mass Meeting-Minter & Cox, 1955-1986. Series 5. 1974 Addendum, contains files on Governor John Bell Williams, 1968-1972; School desegregation: 1, 1963-1973; School desegregation: 2, 1964-1973; Ku Klux Klan, 1961-1973, with copies of Fiery Cross, Vol. 7, No. 5, 6, 1972; Vol. 8, No. 1-6, 1973; Citizens' Council, 1972-1973; Governor George Wallace, 1972-1973; Greenwood, Mississippi: 1, 1960-1973, with clippings on De La Beckwith, race relations; and The Thunderbolt, No. 153-167, 972 September-1973 December. Series 6. 1975 Addendum, contains files on Governor George Wallace, The Thunderbolt, and Ku Klux Klan. Series 7. 1978 Addendum, contains files on Byron De La Beckwith, Ku Klux Klan, Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission, The Thunderbolt, and George A. McNeely, "For God and Country: The True Story of the Ku Klux Klan." Series 8. 1996 Addendum, contains files on A Compilation of Public Records: 42% of the Unitarian Clergymen and 450 Rabbis (Circuit Riders, Inc., 1961); copies of The Thunderbolt, States' Rights Voters League Quarterly Report, The Monitor, and pro- and anti-Klan literature; Ross Barnett; a copy of a Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission report; Communism; race relations; and Senator James O. Eastland.
Websites with information:
http://library.msstate.edu/specialcollections/manuscripts/fulllist.php
http://library.msstate.edu/charm/manuscripts
http://www.lib.msstate.edu/specialcollections/collections/manuscripts/civilrights/
http://lib.msstate.edu/specialcollections/collections/manuscripts/politics/
http://lib.msstate.edu/specialcollections/collections/manuscripts/afam/
Finding aid:
http://library.msstate.edu/FindingAid/MSS.45.html
[0703] The Earnest Sevier Cox Papers, 1821-1973, 1900-1964 (bulk), RL.00262
Location: David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Box 90185, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708-0185
Description: The papers of Earnest Sevier Cox (1880-1966), racial separatist, real estate agent, and military officer of Richmond, Va.. The primary focus of the collection is Cox's advocacy for the separation of the races, which he actively pursued through his support for the repatriation of American blacks to Africa,