Oral history.; Interview conducted on 1995 November 21 with Dr. Peter Orris (born 1945). Dr. Orris participated in his first civil rights demonstration when he was only eleven. In 1964, he was recruited to participate in the Summer Project in...
Materials in this collection were donated by William M. Colmer: First accession-1970. Additional information online at: http://www.lib.usm.edu/legacy/archives/m024.htm
Finding aid for manuscript collection. ; Two memoirs of Stoner's civil rights activities in Mississippi in the 1960s. For the full finding aid, see http://www.lib.usm.edu/~archives/m168.htm.
An interview conducted on 06-08-1999 with Umoja Kwanguvu (born1925). Born William Jones, Umoja Kwanguvu actively protested and defied segregation while in the military, conducted protest activities against the prevailing Jim Crow attitudes and laws...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on August 20, 1997 and August 28, 1997 with Peter H. Stewart (born 1934). He began teaching school in Edwards, Mississippi, in the fall of 1961. In August 1969, he worked for Friends of Children, a Head Start...
Oral history.; Father Peter Oliver Quinn was born on April 11, 1937, in Ireland. He was ordained when he was twenty-five years old in Ireland, and he came to Mississippi in September, 1962. Father Quinn's first assignment was at Sacred Heart...
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Published in Cincinatti, Ohio by Peter G. Thomson, in 1884. Title, imprint, and series statement from cover. P. [2] and [3] of cover included in pagination. "Indestructible". Part of the Little...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Peter Werner talks on the phone shortly after having been assaulted while walking in downtown Hattiesburg, Mississippi, with two other volunteers, Susan Patterson and William D. Jones. The...
From the Margret and Hans Augusto Rey Papers.; Letter to Margret Rey from J. Peter Brunswick of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith about the book Spotty.
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.
Retiree, Dr. Peter Durkee, receives a plaque of recognition as Vice President of Student Affairs from the new VP Dr. Joseph Paul. This photograph is featured in the 1993 Southerner yearbook on page 251.
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 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 May 11, 1977 with the Honorable Horace Buckley at his home in Jackson, Mississippi. Buckley was born on July 14, 1941 in Jackson, Mississippi. He obtained his undergraduate degree from Mississippi Valley...
Oral history.; Discusses Murchison's time spent in the United States Army. Particularly focuses on his participation in the Vietnamese Conflict. During that time, Murchison served both as an adviser and in an actual unit. He received a number of...
Oral history.; Mrs. Frances Ryals Terry was born July 30, 1923, in Greenville, Mississippi. She was a child during the Depression and during the flood of 1927. Mrs. Terry grew up near Hollandale, Mississippi. She graduated from Delta State...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on April 18, 1996 with Zoya Zeman (born 1943). Ms. Zeman was a civil rights activist who worked on the Mississippi Summer Project in Clarksdale, where she worked at the community center, organizing classes and...
From the Louis Slobodkin Papers.; Pen and ink title page illustration created by Louis Slobodkin for Nina Brown Baker's Peter the Great (1943). 14" x 11"
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. SNCC Field Secretary Sandy Leigh, Director of the COFO-Hattiesburg Project, lectures on the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) to Freedom School students and their teachers at True...
