Photograph of students lying on mattresses outside the ticket office, waiting to buy football tickets. The photograph is also found on page 142 of Chester M. Morgan's Dearly bought, deeply treasured, published in 1987.
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...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on November 12, 1981 and February 6, 1982 with Judge J. P. Coleman. Coleman was born on December 9, 1914 in Fentress, Mississippi. After attending the University of Mississippi, he was invited to work in...
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.; Three interviews conducted on April 28, 30 and May 7, 1981 with Mr. Claude Ramsay at his office in Jackson, Mississippi. Ramsay was born in 1916 in Ocean Springs, Mississippi. He served briefly in the Civilian Conservation Corps...
Photograph of Ray "Two-Bits" Crawford with University of Southern Mississippi cheerleaders at a pep rally. Also found in Dearly Bought, Deeply Treasured on page 142; 9 x 6 1/2
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 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 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 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.; An interview conducted on June 18, 1980 with Charles Hudson Griffin (born 1926). Griffin served in the office of U. S. Congressman John Bell Williams until 1968 when he campaigned for the position himself. He served three terms...
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Collected and revised by Benjamin Tabart. Published in London by Sir Richard Phillips and Co., Bride Court, Bridge Street, circa 1818. "Contains twenty-six choice pieces of fancy and fiction, by...
From the Meridian Light and Railway Company Minute Book Collection. Photograph of a one volume, four hundred page Secretary's Record book detailing the minutes of the Meridian Light and Railway Company from February 18, 1901 to July 18, 1910....
The dining hall record contains daily entries listing the food served at each meal during the day - breakfast, dinner, and supper. Most entries also include a brief note of daily activities, including reunions, deaths, visits, and other events. The...
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
From the Map Collection. Map of Mississippifrom 1895 from Rand McNally & Company's indexed atlas of the world [published in 1895], page 142. Map shows counties, cities, towns, and railroad lines. Longitude given in degrees west from Washington and...
From the Rare Books Collection. This antiphonal manuscript, circa 16th century, is believed to be of Spanish origin. An antiphoner is a Catholic liturgical book containing antiphons and responsories for the Daily Office, the set of eight daily...
