Oral history.; Interview conducted in November, 1994, with Clearese Cook. Ms. Cook grew up in the Irene Chapel Community of Hattiesburg, Mississippi. She attended De Priest Consolidated School in the Palmers Crossing Community of Hattiesburg and...
Oral history.; Mr. John Sherman Crubaugh was born April 12, 1913. During his college years at Mississippi State, from 1931, he worked to pay for his education. After he received a B.S. degree and an M.Ed. degree from Mississippi State University,...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on November 3, 1993 with Horace H. Harned Jr. (born 1920). He was a former Mississippi State legislator, a member of the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission, and an active segregationist during the years of...
Oral history.; Ms. Lillie Belle Johnson was born in Shannon, Mississippi, in 1925, into a family of farmers. She finished high school at Mary Holmes Junior College in West Point, Mississippi, married and then became a widow with four children, but...
Oral history.; Dr. Charlotte Siegel Kaplan was born in Sunflower, Mississippi, on August 20, 1920, to Sadie Courland Siegel and Samuel Siegel who had emigrated from Europe at the turn of the twentieth century. In the Delta of Mississippi, the...
Oral history.; Mr. Ulysses Sims was born on May 31, 1918, in Mendenhall, Mississippi and after his parents died was raised by his grandparents. In 1936, he entered the Piney Woods School of Mississippi, working to pay his own way through school....
Oral history.; Interview conducted with Dr. Michael Smith, a professor of criminal justice at the University of Southern Mississippi and a journalist during the 1960s. Smith was born in 1942 in Waterloo, Iowa. After his family's move to Jackson,...
Oral history.; Mr. Alton G. Bankston was born outside of Laurel, Mississippi on June 5, 1941. Mr. Bankston majored in political science and history at Jones County Junior College and attended the University of Southern Mississippi. In 1963 he...
Oral history. Interview conducted on March 4, 1972 with Associate Justice Thomas Pickens Brady, of the Supreme Court of Mississippi in his chambers in Jackson, Mississippi. Brady was born on August 6, 1903, in New Orleans, Louisiana. He...
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Published in London by John Harris, corner of St. Paul's Church-Yard, circa 1825. Bound in mauve paper covers. Illustrations are hand colored. Contents: Courtship, merry marriage, and pic-nic...
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Published in Boston, Mass., by L. Prang, in 1863. Toy book cut in the shape of a standing Little Red Riding Hood. Title from illustrated paper cover. "Entered according to act of Congress, in...
Report of the Joint Select Committee appointed to investigate the condition and treatment of Prisoners of War. By Mr. Perkins; Laid on table and ordered to be printed by the Congress of the Confederate States of America on 03 March 1865.
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Published by McLoughlin Bros., Inc., in New York, copyright 1883. Also published as the second part of: Wonders of the circus. New York : McLoughlin Bro's, c1883. Title, imprint, and series...
From the Political Campaign Collection. Pamphlet endorsing the re-election of Walter F. George as a member of the U.S. Senate from Georgia. The pamphlet contains endorsements and positive statements from newspaper editors in Georgia.
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; The report published by the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) as part of the Political Education Project gives the history of both the MFDP and the regular Mississippi Democratic...
From the Adams (Victoria Gray) Papers. Booklet produced by the Bolivar County Education Committee with detailed information about politics and education in Bolivar County and the state of Mississippi. Outlines the basic government structure in...
From the McCain (William D.) Pamphlet Collection; Excerpt from the book "Down to Earth." The material stresses the perceived negative affects of racial integration.
