Oral history.; Obie Clark was born October 31, 1932, near DeKalb, Mississippi. He earned a degree from Mississippi Industrial College and did additional college work at the University of Minnesota. For many years he taught school in Meridian,...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on April 2, 1972 with Mr. R. Jess Brown in Jackson, Mississippi. Brown was born in Coffeeville, Kansas, on September 2, 1912, and was raised in Oklahoma. He received a Bachelor of Science degree from Illinois...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Freedom Summer volunteer Reverend James "Jim" Nance talking with unidentified African American residents while conducting voter registration canvassing near Fifth and Mobile Streets in...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; This photo shows a close-up of Reverend Jim Nance, a Freedom Summer volunteer, in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer, 1964. Although Nance was not part of the Hattiesburg...
Finding aid for manuscript collection. ; This collection consists primarily of material for the book, Letters From Mississippi (1965, republished 2002). The book contains letters written in 1964 by Mississippi Freedom Summer volunteers. The papers...
Photograph of the ground breaking ceremony of the Payne Fitness Center. Left to right: Peter Durkee, Bill Schlicher, Heather McKee, Larry Payne, Jim Payne, Aubrey Lucas, and Sid Gonsoulin. Photograph featured in the 1991 Southerner on page 81.
Photograph of the 1920 Mississippi Normal College football team. First row: Zac Lee, Muty Campbell, [?] Parsons, O.P. O'Marrow, Lynn McClesky, Dewey Lane, Glenn Vensore. Second row: Jim Montgomery, Reggie Williams, Red Holliman, Jim (Black) Busby....
Photograph of the 1950 "M Club" featured in the 1950 Southerner yearbook on page 164. Pictured left to right, seated: Frank Spruell (President) Reese Snell (Secretary) Tom LeGros (Vice President) Jim Owen (Treasurer); 2nd row: Ed Langford, Brew...
cartoon by Jim Ivey; A couple visits Greece, and they look upon some columns from Ancient Greece. The man holds a "Greek Guide Book," but after seeing the columns he says, "I See Militant Students Have Been Here."
cartoon by Jim Ivey; Three people hang out of the UN building, and they hold a sign that says, "You Are Invited To The Disarmament Conferences." Mao Tse-Tung shoots "No" on the sign.
cartoon by Jim Ivey; The "Tallahassee City Commission" tells a young boy, "Hang Your Head on a Hickory Limb, But Don't Go Near the Water." The boy sweats as he looks at a pool representing "Tallahassee City Pools."
cartoon by Jim Ivey; Various people make "Resolutions" but the caption warns that they are "To Be Broken Early." Governor Claude Kirk resolves "To Stay Anchored in Tallahassee," the Legislators want "To Impose A Stiff Ethics Code On Myself," J.Q....
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Jim Ivey. A black arm band labeled "Grissom, White, Chaffee" circles the moon, which is shown in a dark sky above the Earth. Astronauts Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee died in...
cartoon by Jim Ivey; Governor Claude Kirk stamps "Veto" all over bills with a pogo stick stamper. Kirk tells the shocked Legislaure, "Say! This Is Fun!"
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Jim Ivey. In the background of the cartoon, a U.S. soldier holding a rifle with bayonet makes his way through jungle foliage. In the foreground, a rifle with smoke rising from the barrel is...
cartoon by Jim Ivey; Legislators say "Oh, No - A Whole New Range!" after they cross the mountains of "Regular Session" and "Extra Session." On the path, the "Constitutional Revision Session" has been "Cancelled." The new range includes a "3-Day Jr....
