Photograph of University of Southern Mississippi softball pitcher Courtney Blades receiving flowers and congratulations after her 1000th strike out. Featured in the USM Alumni News, vol. 52, no. 4 (Spring 1999) on page 22.
Photograph of University President Horace Fleming playing the trumpet with the band. Featured in the USM Alumni News, vol. 52, no. 5 (Fall 1999) on page 17.
Photograph of University President Horace Fleming, Dr. John Edmond Gonzales, and former president Dr. Aubrey Lucas at the dedication of the Liberal Arts Building auditorium to Dr. Gonzales. Featured in the Talon, vol. 53, no. 4 (Spring 2000) on...
Photograph of university President Shelby Thames in the president's box of M. M. Roberts stadium. Thames is looking down on the field. Two unidentified men are in the background. Featured in the Talon, vol. 56, no. 1 (Summer 2002) on page 21.
Photograph of Willie Heidelberg, wearing the No. 1 jersey, rushing in a football game. Also found on page 123 of Chester M. Morgan's Dearly bought, deeply treasured, published in 1987, and in the 1972 Southerner yearbook on page 159.
Photograph University President Horace Fleming and Gene Carlisle, President of Carlisle Corp., as they flip burgers at the announcement of Carlisle's gift of the Wendy's Restaurant on Westover Drive in Hattiesburg to the USM Foundation. Featured...
Oral history.; Discusses the curricula, teachers and administrators, and recreational activities, including school sports at the African American schools. Compares the schools of the 1990s to those of the past, and describes the African American...
Preamble and Resolutions on the subject of Taxes. By Mr. Geo. W. Jones, of Tennessee; Read first and second times, laid on the table, and ordered to be printed by the Congress of the Confederate States of America on 07 February 1863.
President Aubrey Lucas presents a game ball to Kay James to commemorate the winning of her 300th game earlier in the season. Featured in the USM Alumni News, vol. 46, no. 4 (Spring 1994) on page 19.
Printed copy of an order, dated 26 February 1870, dissolving the Fourth Military District (Mississippi and Arkansas), a unit that had been created by Congressional order in 1867. General Sherman and E. D. Townsend, Adjutant General, are named in...
Transcribed copy of a document detailing the curriculum of Freedom Schools. Begins with a Table of Contents showing the major curriculum divisions: academic, citizenship, and recreational and artistic. Also gives details of activities and materials...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on July 5, 1995 with Mr. Rims Barber (born 1936). In 1964, he was a twenty-seven-year-old Presbyterian minister in Davenport, Iowa. He came to Mississippi in response to a request for volunteers to help with...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on August 31, 1995 with long-time civil rights activist Ms. Winson Hudson. In 1956 her community challenged the enforcement of the "separate but equal" provision of Brown v. Board of Education. When local banks...
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...
Oral history.; Mrs. Janelle McComb was born in Lauderdale County, and moved to Tupelo, Mississippi, when two weeks old. As a child, Mrs. McComb enjoyed the annual Mississippi / Alabama Fair and Dairy Show. She survived the Tupelo tornado in her...
Oral history.; Mrs. Edith Ruff Thomas was born on February 12, 1920. She grew up on a farm that became well-established, providing products throughout Tupelo. In 1936, she lived through the Tupelo tornado, and in 1937 she was graduated from Tupelo...
Oral history.; Mr. Aaron Morgan was born December 18, 1909. He attended Oak Hill School through the seventh grade and then attended Auburn Consolidated Schools, driving a covered wagon with a pair of mules as a school ";bus."; He finished high...
Oral history.; Reverend Sammie Rash was born in Sunflower County, Mississippi, on July 31, 1942. His parents were sharecroppers, and in 1949 they moved the family to the McGann plantation in Bolivar County, where Reverend Rash grew up. In 1963...
Oral history.; Mrs. Varnell Homan was born on February 5, 1925, in Mooreville, Mississippi. In 1936, the year of Tupelo's worst tornado, she moved to Shannon, Mississippi. In 1942 she married Elkin P. Homan, and they were farmers. To make a...
Transcribed copy of a speech given by Victoria Jackson Gray (Adams) during her campaign for the United States Senate in 1964. Discusses Section I, Title I of the Civil Rights Bill and its effects on African Americans in Mississippi. Also describes...
