Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 24, 1972 with Dr. William Penn Davis at his home in Jackson, Mississippi. Davis was born in Union County, Mississippi on August 5, 1903. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Mississippi College in...
Oral history.; An interview with Sister Jacqueline Howard conducted on May 30, 2007. Principal at Our Lady Academy in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, Howard describes the impact of Hurricane Katrina on the school and the community of Bay St. Louis.
From the University of Southern Mississippi Art Museum collection. Photo litho on paper of a woman with red hair sitting in a chair, by Amedeo Modigliani.
From the University of Southern Mississippi Art Museum collection. Oil on canvas board painting of a seated woman in a black dress, by an unknown artist.
From the University of Southern Mississippi Art Museum collection. Etching of trees with houses, a forest, and mountains in the background, by Luigi Lucioni.
From the University of Southern Mississippi Art Museum collection. Oil on board figure study of a nude woman standing by a table with a vase of flowers in the background, by Marian Stacks.
From the University of Southern Mississippi Art Museum collection. Oil painting of a topless African American woman wearing a red headdress, by Marian Sacks.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on February 22, 2007 with Dorothy Burney, a retired Biloxi schoolteacher, who describes her experiences during and after Hurricane Katrina on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
A collection of interviews with African-Americans of the Mississippi Gulf Coast, circa twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, who knew Colonel John Robinson, an African-American pilot who was tapped by Ethiopian Emperor Haile Sellassie in the...
Oral history.; Born in 1947, Dr. Story was graduated from Mississippi Valley State University in 1969 where he earned a B.S.; he earned an M.Ed. from Delta State University. During his varied career he has been a sharecropper, a public school...
Oral history.; Mr. Lee Owens, Jr. was born on May 7, 1921, in Natchez, Mississippi. As a child, Mr. Owens worked in a cotton field for half a day while attending school for half a day. Because his parents could not afford to send him to school, he...
