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...
Photograph of running back Derrick Nix, who was selected to the preseason all-conference team. Featured in the Alumni Association's publication, Talon, vol. 53, no. 4 (Spring 2000), p. 22.
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...
cartoon by Jim Ivey; At the "Fla. Development Comm.," "Smolko" tries to hand the "Press" selected papers, but the "Press" is angered by the chained and locked "Public Records."
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. A woman wearing a fringed shawl is looking through the greeting cards in a store that is decorated for Christmas. Nearby on a store counter beside a cash register is a stack of...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on May 18, 1972 with Ms. Ruby Magee at College Hall at the University of Southern Mississippi. Magee was born in 1940 in Tylertown, Mississippi. In 1962, she received a BA in history and political science from...
Transcribed copy of a handwritten letter from Rayford Lee Bourn to Nancy Ellin, dated September 9, 1964, in which Bourn discusses his up-coming departure from Hattiesburg, Mississippi, in order to attend school. Mentions incidents of harassment and...
Letter from John Lion, Director of the American College Theater Festival, to President Aubrey Lucas. The letter announces the selection of USM's production of Catfish Moon for performance at the American College Theater Festival during April 1995...
From the Campbell (Will D.) Papers; Typewritten memo from Dr. Huber F. Klemme, Associate Director of the Council for Christian Social Action, to Selected Ministers and Laymen of the United Church of Christ, no date given. The Council for Christian...
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 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...
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...
From the Hardy (William H. and Sallie J.) Papers. Letter from William Hardy to Sallie Hardy; written from Doctor Jones's, three miles from Gordonsville, Virginia.
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on April 1, 1993 and January 6, 1995 with Ariel Barnes (born 1917). Mrs. Barnes was born in Forest, Mississippi, but moved to Hattiesburg shortly after. She attended Alcorn University, where she earned a...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on October 25, 1976 with Bert Fells, a Hattiesburg native. Mr. Fells served in the Air Force from 1966 to 1969, including a tour in Vietnam. In 1972, he returned to Mississippi to live and became director of...
Oral history.; Mr. George A. Stevens was born in 1910 in Forrest County, Mississippi. He attended Hattiesburg public schools but graduated from high school in Anthony, New Mexico. Mr. Stevens returned to attend The University of Southern...
Oral history.; Viola Brown Sanders was born in Sidon, Mississippi, on February 21, 1921. After Miss Sanders finished her education, she taught school for two years in Glen Allan, Mississippi. In 1943, Miss Sanders joined the United States Navy...
