Melish, Ilene
Biography:
Ilene Melish was a student at Tougaloo College during the 1960s when she and her husband, William, along with other students from the Jackson, Mississippi area, participated in an Anti-Vietnam War demonstration during a visit from Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara.
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Archival Collections and Reference Resources
- Series 2515 : Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission Records Online, 1994-2006, Photographs (Mississippi Department of Archives and History)
- Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph of Karen Townsend, William Melish, Ilene Melish (left to right) and other unidentified demonstrators standing in front of a Western Union storefront during an Anti-Vietnam War demonstration protesting Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's visit to Jackson, Mississippi, 1967 February 24 (Black-and-white photographs)
- Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph of Tougaloo College students William Melish and Ilene Melish standing in front of a Western Union storefront with other unidentified demonstrators during an Anti-Vietnam War demonstration protesting Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's visit to Jackson, Mississippi, 1967 February 24 (Black-and-white photographs)