Contains agendas, audio tapes, books, campaign material, correspondence, flyers, legal material, magazines, maps, negatives, newsclippings, notes, pamphlets, photographs, plaques, reports, slides, speeches, and video tapes. Includes material on Mims' unsuccessful run for the United States Senate in 1972. Covers a multitude of local subjects typically found within such political collections, including information on the area airports, on housing, on the city's 275th anniversary celebration, and on the aftermath of Hurricane Frederic. Of particular interest within the collection are the files related to the devastating flooding that hit Mobile in 1981 and to local events during America's bicentennial celebration of 1976. Other material worthy of note are documents related to Dads Against Dirt, a state-wide anti-pornography group headed at one time by Mims. Other interesting files relate to civil rights, including a 1981 report discussing race relations in Mobile written by Mims; information on Wiley Bolden v. City of Mobile, which changed the city's form of government; the Glenn Diamond mock-lynching-police-brutality case; the Neighborhood Organized Workers; the Mobile Area Committee for Training and Development; job discrimination; police profiling; and free speech. In addition, includes material on Mims' attempt to establish a resort in the delta region of Mobile Bay, on the 2002 United States senatorial campaign of Julian L. McPhillips Jr., on urban renewal, and on flood control. Also consists of files regarding Mims' 1990 indictment and conviction for violating the Hobbs Act in regard to a proposed garbage-to-steam energy plant to be built in the city of Mobile.
