Finding aid for manuscript collection. ; In his six-page memoir, Dr. Anthony Harris recounts events in his life from ca. 1964 to 1977. He includes his participation and arrest in a voting rights demonstration, his role in the integration of...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on May 19, 2008 with Laura Clare Thompson Creel. A life-long resident of Biloxi, Mrs. Creel recounts her family history and experience dealing with hurricanes, including Hurricane Katrina.
Letter from John Anthony Quitman, governor of Mississippi to the governor of Connecticut, Thomas Hart Seymour (unnamed in the document), dated 10 June 1850. Two copies of the laws passed in the last Mississippi legislative session were being...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Freedom School student Anthony Harris sits at a table writing in a notebook at the Freedom School hosted by Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer, 1964.
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Volunteer Anthony "Arrow" Beaulieu sits on a U.S. Mailbox in front of True Light Baptist Church in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer, 1964. There are two African American children...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Legendary folk singer and social activist Pete Seeger gives instruction to Freedom School student Anthony Harris and an unidentified student at Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Hattiesburg,...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Volunteer Anthony "Arrow" Beaulieu stands in front of the choir stall at the Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, at a meeting of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP)...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Volunteer Anthony "Arrow" Beaulieu sits on a U.S. mailbox in front of True Light Baptist Church in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer, 1964.
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...
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...
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.; Interview conducted on September 17, 1980 with the Honorable Tony Byrne, former mayor of Natchez, Mississippi at his office in the Natchez City Hall. Byrne was born on May 18, 1936 in Natchez, Mississippi. He attended Mississippi...
Oral history.; Interview conducted in the spring of 1995 with Eberta Spinks (born 1914). In 1964, Mrs. Spinks became active in the civil rights movement. She housed civil rights workers in her home, integrated the restaurant of the Pinehurst Hotel...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Legendary folk singer and social activist Pete Seeger meets with students in a Freedom School class at Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, on August 4, 1964, as part of Freedom...
From the Map Collection. Map of Mississippi in 1829. From A new general atlas, comprising a complete set of maps. Philadelphia : Anthony Finley, 1829. Plate 28. Map shows counties and territories of Indian nations (Chickasaw and Choctaw). Map...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on February 19, 2009 with John Dubuisson, Chief of Police in Pass Christian, Mississipi. Mr. Dubuisson discusses his experiences during and after Hurricane Katrina.
Oral history.; An interview with Pete Hansen conducted on August 11, 2006. Mr. Sloan is an operating room technician in Gulfport, Mississippi. He describes being at the hospital as Hurricane Katrina arrived.
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on November 12, 1981 and February 6, 1982 with Judge J. P. Coleman. Coleman was born on December 9, 1914 in Fentress, Mississippi. After attending the University of Mississippi, he was invited to work in...
