Oral history.; Mrs. Leila Lyle Wilkinson Underhill was born in Shelby, Mississippi, on July 29, 1919. She grew up during the Great Depression and remembers the flood of 1927. During World War II, Mrs. Underhill's brother was killed. Mrs....
A collection of eight interviews with participants in the Mississippi civil rights movement. The people interviewed discuss how they came to participate in the civil rights movement, their various activities, including voter registration, Freedom...
Oral history.; Ms. Lillie Belle Johnson was born in Shannon, Mississippi, in 1925, into a family of farmers. She finished high school at Mary Holmes Junior College in West Point, Mississippi, married and then became a widow with four children, but...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. A group of African American men walk north under the shop signs of African-American businesses in the 500 block of Mobile Street, across the street from the COFO-Hattiesburg project...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on October 25, 1993 with Mrs. Raylawni Branch. Branch was born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, in 1941. After graduating from high school, she married and had three children. In 1965, Branch attended USM for one...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on May 14, 2008 with Robert E. Bass, Jr. (born 1955). Mr. Bass earned degrees from Mississippi State University and the University of Mississippi Law School. He has served in many civic capacities, including...
Photograph of an aerial view of campus. The view is from the northeast, with the football stadium in the center. [Photograph is thought to date after Field House contruction (1956-1957?) but is certain to be before Roberts Stadium was built in the...
Photograph of an aerial view of campus. The view is from the southeast, with the Administration Building a little left of center. Photograph is marked with the photographer's name: "Bob Waller, Photographer, Hattiesburg, Miss." [Photograph was...
Photograph of the pediment and columns of Science Hall, later named Southern Hall. Photograph also found in Chester M. Morgan's book, Dearly bought, deeply treasured on page 53, and in the 1931 Neka Camon yearbook on page 24.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on August 30, 1978 with Thomas Jefferson Tubb (born 1899). Mr. Tubb served as chairman of the Clay County Executive Committee for 47 years from 1928 to 1975 and during the Dixiecrat movement from 1950 to 1956....
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Two men are on a girder that is suspended from above by a wire and large hook. The girder is labeled, "State building programs" and is not flat but tilted up on one end. The man...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; A local African American boy stands with his bicycle in front of a row of houses on Sixth Street in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer, 1964.
From the Hazelton (Margaret J.) Freedom Summer Collection; One black-and-white photograph, taken by Rev. Frazer Thomason, of three African Americans at "the 'table'" inside Dr. ("Doc") Aaron Henry's drugstore on 4th Street in Clarksdale,...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. An African American woman walks north on Mobile Street, crossing the intersection of Mobile and Sixth Streets in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer, 1964.
From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection.; Photograph of an unidentified house taken by Dr. Erwin D. Zeman, a member of the Medical Committee for Human Rights, September 1964. Two African American children can be seen in front of the house...
