From the Major-Sowers Saw Mill Photographs Collection. Photograph of the planing mill at the the Major-Sowers Sawmill Company, Tallahala site in Perry County.
From the Major-Sowers Saw Mill Photographs Collection. Photograph of a storage shed piled high with lumber at the Major-Sowers Sawmill Company, Tallahala site in Perry County.
From the Major-Sowers Saw Mill Photographs Collection. Photograph of three workers in the planing mill at the the Major-Sowers Sawmill Company, Tallahala site in Perry County.
From the Major-Sowers Saw Mill Photographs Collection. Photograph of a ground view of a portion of the Major-Sowers Sawmill Company, Tallahala site in Perry County.
From the Major-Sowers Saw Mill Photographs Collection. Photograph of eight workers in front of the boiler shed at the Major-Sowers Sawmill Company, Tallahala site in Perry County.
Oral history.; Miss Oseola McCarty was born on March 7, 1908, in Wayne County, Mississippi. McCarty attended Eureka Elementary School until the sixth grade when she dropped out to care for an aunt who was ill. While still in school, McCarty began...
Oral history.; Mr. Alvin L. Fielder Sr. was born December 7, 1900 in Newton County, Mississippi. Mr. Fielder moved to Meehan Junction, Mississippi in 1913 and remained there until 1918, when he moved to Meridian. In 1918 he was a lumberyard saw...
Oral history.; Gwin E. Douglas was born on November 9, 1923, in State Line, Mississippi. Douglas graduated from Leakesville High School in 1942 and worked briefly with his father in the naval store and the timber businesses until he was drafted...
Oral history.; Tommie Dukes Sr. was born in 1906 in Richardson, Mississippi, a town that no longer exists. Mr. Dukes played baseball at Alcorn College and then played for semi-pro and Negro League teams. Among other teams, he played for the Memphis...
Oral history.; Mr. King T. Evans was born on March 19, 1913 near Uniontown, Alabama, in Perry County. In 1925, Mr. Evans moved to Mississippi with his parents. His father was a mechanic and farmer. For a brief period, Mr. Evans attended the...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on February 21, 2007 with Aimee Gautier-Dugger, who describes her experience waiting out the storm in Gautier, the city her ancestors founded, and the struggle to regroup after the storm.
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.; Discusses Clarence Magee's family, his responsibilities on the farm, and first memories of racism. Talks about the African American schools around Columbia, Mississippi. Describes his attempts to register to vote in Hattiesburg and...
