Oral history.; Mr. Augustus (Gus) Ashby Sr. was born in 1924, in Washington, D.C. and moved to Tupelo where he became active in the local church. After high school, he attended college in Holly Springs and Okolona, Mississippi. He was a member of...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on April 3, 1995 and June 8, 1995 with Constance Baker (born 1912). Mrs. Baker has spent her life working for civil rights and in teaching. She was involved in the Head Start program from its inception and...
Oral history.; Borganelli discusses her teaching career and family, public education in Mississippi, the Mississippi Humanities Council, and race relations in Mississippi.
Oral history.; Mr. Terry Allen Broadus was born on October 11, 1938. Mr. Broadus enrolled at Perkinston Agricultural High School in 1952 and later received a baseball scholarship to attend Perkinston Junior College. In the late 1960s, Mr. Broadus...
Oral history.;Mr. F.W. Bishop was born on December 11, 1897, near Shaw, Mississippi. His family farmed in the Skene community before moving to Cleveland, Mississippi, in 1911. Mr. Bishop began his education in a one-room schoolhouse in Skene and...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on November 11, 1995 with Larry Rubin (born 1942). In 1961, he helped to register voters in the South for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. In late 1963 and in 1964, Mr. Rubin worked as a civil rights...
Oral history.; Mr. Jack Raymond Reed was born on May 19, 1924, in Tupelo, Mississippi. In 1941, Mr. Reed graduated from Tupelo High School and he then entered the military and World War II as part of the Signal Intelligence Service, U.S. Army of...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on November 17, 1995 with Mr. Roger Barnhill. He was born on November 12, 1940 in Lincoln, Nebraska. Barnhill was recruited into the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in his senior year at...
From the Emilie and Marie Stapp Collection. Amelia Siedler was 10 years when she created this diary documenting her family's move from Iowa to Arkansas in a covered wagon from 28 December 1895 - 27 February 1896.
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Exemplified in a series of figures. Published in London by S. and J. Fuller, in 1810. This copy is the 6th edition. The illustrations are hand-colored cutouts with interchangeable parts. ...
From the Kate Greenaway Papers. Autograph letter signed. 4 pp. on 1 folded leaf. (15 x 10 cm.) To Helen from Kate Greenaway at Hampstead, dated Good Friday [4 April] 1890.
From the Kate Greenaway Papers. Autograph letter signed. 4 pp. on 1 folded leaf. (15.5 x 10 cm.) With envelope. To Lady Maria [Ponsonby] from Kate Greenaway at Hampstead, dated 26 July 1897.
From the Kate Greenaway Papers. Autograph letter signed. 3 pp. on 1 folded leaf. (14 x 9 cm.) To Herbert [Evans] from Kate Greenaway dated Sunday Evening, circa 1879-1884.
From the Kate Greenaway Papers. Autograph letter signed. 4 pp. on 1 folded leaf. (15 x 10 cm.) To Lady Dorothy from Kate Greenaway at Hampstead, dated 28 December 1900.
From the Kate Greenaway Papers. Autograph letter signed. 3 pp. on 1 folded leaf. With envelope. To Lady Maria [Ponsonby] from Kate Greenaway at Hampstead, dated 16 November 1900.
From the Kate Greenaway Papers. Autograph letter signed. 2 pp. on 1 folded leaf. (15.5 x 10 cm.) To Madam from Kate Greenaway at Hampstead dated 16 March 1894. On mourning stationery.
From the Kate Greenaway Papers. Autograph letter signed. 2 pp. on 1 folded leaf. (15 x 10 cm.) To Lady Lindsay from Kate Greenaway at Witley Surrey, dated 29 April 1892.
