Oral history.; An interview conducted on April 26, 2006 with Ursula Daxecker. A native of Austria, Daxecker came to New Orleans as a graduate student. After her home was flooded in Hurricane Katrina, Daxecker moved to Northern Virginia. She has...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on August 25, 1971 with Erskine Caldwell (1903-1987). Mr. Caldwell was a prominent American author whose works include Tobacco Road, (1932) and God's Little Acre (1933).
Oral history.; Interview conducted on February 26, 1974 with Mr. Brodie Crump at his home in Greenville, Mississippi. Crump was born in 1898 in Greenville, Mississippi. After attending Mississippi A&M College, now Mississippi State University,...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on September 23, 2009 with Robert Weaver, the Sand Beach Director and Roads Manager for Harrison County, who describes the 2005 hurricane season's destruction across the American South.
Oral history.; Three interviews conducted on August 8 and 10, 1976 and October 19, 1976 with Jesse Boyce Holleman (born 1924). He served in the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1947 until 1953. At that time, he became district attorney for...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on July 30, 1980 with Mr. Erle Johnston at his home in Forest, Mississippi. Johnston was born on October 10, 1917 in Garyville, Louisiana. In 1941, he moved Forest, Mississippi and bought the fledgling newspaper,...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on June 8, 1976, with Will D. Campbell. Mr. Campbell, born in Amite County, Mississippi, was ordained as a pastor at the age of 17. He first became aware of race relations during time spent in the military, when...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 23, 1977 with Mr. Jimmy Swan. Swan was born in Cullman County, Alabama. He ran away from home when he was thirteen or fourteen and ended up in Wayne County, Mississippi. Swan sang in nightclubs and...
Transcribed copy of a report by the General Legislative Committee of Mississippi based on findings from an investigation of the occupation of the University of Mississippi in 1962 by the United States Department of Justice. Action was taken in...
From the Margret and Hans Augusto Rey Papers.; Watercolor illustration of the Pyramids (folded and unfolded) from the book dummy (p. 4) of H.A. Rey's How Do You Get There (1941). The first image is 4.5" x 11.5" and the second image is 4.5" x 14."
From the Margret and Hans Augusto Rey Papers.; Watercolor illustration of lighthouse and ship (folded and unfolded) from H.A. Rey's book dummy for How Do You Get There (1941). The first image is 8.5" x 9.5" and the second image is 8.5" x 14."
From the Margret and Hans Augusto Rey Papers.; Watercolor illustration of Charlie Chaplin waiting for a ride (folded) and walking down the road (unfolded) from H.A. Rey's book dummy for How Do You Get There.
From the Margret and Hans Augusto Rey Papers.; Watercolor illustration of a little girl with a dog and her parents waiting at a bus stop (folded) and her parents getting on the bus (unfolded) from H.A. Rey's book dummy for How Do You Get There.
