Finding aid for manuscript collection. ; NAACP correspondence and other materials documenting the contributions of this Hattiesburg, Mississippi civil rights leader. For the full finding aid, see http://www.lib.usm.edu/~archives/m340.htm.
Finding aid for manuscript collection. ; Materials documenting the work of the 1960s Forrest County, Miss. NAACP leaders J.C. Fairley and Daisy Harris. For the full finding aid, see http://www.lib.usm.edu/~archives/m334.htm.
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; A group of Freedom Summer volunteers stand in front of local civil rights leader J.C. Fairley's car, on the bumper of which is a sticker that reads "Register Now." Those identified in the...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; A male Freedom Summer volunteer pointing to a bullet hole in the front of a white car parked in front of J. C. Fairley's Radio's TV Service shop (522 Mobile Street, Hattiesburg, Mississippi). ...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; An African American child stands in front of a car damaged by gunfire during Freedom Summer, 1964, in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. The car is parked at the side of local civil rights leader J.C....
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Local activists and volunteers leave St. John United Methodist Church at Palmers Crossing in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, after a meeting in support of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. SNCC Field Secretary Sandy Leigh, Director of the COFO-Hattiesburg Project, meets with three men in the Green Door Cafe, located at 318 Mobile Street in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, near...
From the Campbell (Will D.) Papers. Copy of a typewritten letter from Will D. Campbell to Rev. J.C. Herrin, dated March 5, 1962, in which Campbell discusses the situation of Rev. R.B. Smith of Indianola, Mississippi. Smith, a pastor, was forced to...
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of the Magnolia State building on West Pine Street. The building housed Fowler Hardware as late as 1950, but in this picture, the JC Penney department store occupies...
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs; Photograph of Mayor Moran Pope with Hattiesburg's first safety car. The car was donated to the city by Barron Motor Company, with assistance from the Hattiesburg Junior Chamber of Commerce. The car is...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on February 2, 1976 with James Cohen (born 1920). Since 1953, Mr. Cohen has been active in several civic associations in Hattiesburg and provides insight into the city's race relations and politics from the 1950s...
A collection of ten 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 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.; An interview conducted on October 6, 2006 with Fred Dunaway and Caroline Dunaway. Residents of Back Bay, Biloxi, Mr. & Mrs. Dunaway discuss their experiences during and after Hurricane Katrina.
Oral history.; Interview conducted in November, 1994, with Clearese Cook. Ms. Cook grew up in the Irene Chapel Community of Hattiesburg, Mississippi. She attended De Priest Consolidated School in the Palmers Crossing Community of Hattiesburg and...
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.; Robert Elton Cox was born February 6, 1917, at Mannsdale, Mississippi in Madison County. He attended school in Madison and graduated from Millsaps College in Jackson. He taught and coached for two years before going into the service....
