Finding aid for manuscript collection. ; The Peggy Jean Connor papers contain 2 newspaper articles, a memoir of the civil rights movement in Mississippi written by herself, a school report by her grandson, and an undergraduate thesis concerning...
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. One-page typed letter by Peggy Quinn on letterhead of the Jackson COFO office, amended with a Greenville, Mississippi, address. Quinn identifies herself as Freedom School coordinator for COFO in...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Peggy Jean Connor studying documents during Freedom Summer 1964. She is in Jean's Beauty Shop (her place of business) located at 510 Mobile Street in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Connor was...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Peggy Jean Connor and Sandy Leigh handle the finances of the COFO-Hattiesburg Project in Connor's place of business, Jean's Beauty Shop at 510 Mobile Street in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, across...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Peggy Jean Connor in her place of business, Jean's Beauty Shop, at 510 Mobile Street in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, across the street from COFO-Hattiesburg headquarters at 507 Mobile Street,...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Close-up of local activist Peggy Jean Connor, participating in a meeting of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer, 1964.
Oral history.; Mr. Pascal Nevin Sledge was born February 6, 1921, in the Alva Community east of Duck Hill, Mississippi. He attended Cleveland High School, Culver Military Academy, Delta State University, and General Motors' Chevrolet Dealer...
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...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. This photo shows the Copeland sisters of Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Brenda is on the left and Peggy is on the right. They lived with their grandparents, Mr. King David Patton and his wife Mrs....
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Herbert Randall's close-up of Sandy Leigh taken in Peggy Jean Connor's place of business, Jean's Beauty Shop at 510 Mobile Street in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, across the street from...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Local activists and volunteers participate in a meeting of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) at the St. Paul United Methodist Church in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; A view of a meeting of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) from the rear of the St. Paul United Methodist Church in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer, 1964. Seated at...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Marie Blalock, Peggy Jean Connor, and Vassie Patton (left to right) at a Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) meeting held in the sanctuary of a local African American church in...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. An African American male teenager in a plastic raincoat walks south under the shop signs of African American businesses in the 500 block of Mobile Street, across the street from...
Photograph of the bon voyage party for Pauline Rogers Stout. Seated: Mrs. William D. McCain, Dr. William D. McCain, Pauline Stout, Jessie Morrison. Standing: Roger B. Johnson, Betty Cooley, Cathy Adams, Peggy Layman, Carolyn Mawk, Roger Johnson,...
Oral history.; Ms. Margaret Keith Andresen was born in Biloxi, Mississippi on May 3, 1943. She attended Perkinston High School and the Perkinston Campus of Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College. As a teacher at Moss Point High School from...
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...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on June 18, 2007 with Margaret Alfonso, the Senior Chancery Court Judge for Hancock, Harrison, and Stone counties. She discusses her experience with Hurricane Katrina on the Gulf Coast.
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...
