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
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...
From the Louis Slobodkin Papers.; Pen and ink title page illustration created by Louis Slobodkin for Nina Brown Baker's Peter the Great (1943). 14" x 11"
From the Camp McCain, Mississippi World War II Slides. Photograph (from a color slide) of the view of the company area from the officers quarters at Camp McCain, near Grenada, Mississippi, in the Spring of 1943. Photograph taken by Lt. Omer Austin...
From the Camp McCain, Mississippi World War II Slides. Photograph (from a color slide) of Major Park on his "10-minute" break at Camp McCain, near Grenada, Mississippi, in the Spring of 1943. Photograph taken by Lt. Omer Austin Heacox, who was with...
From the Camp McCain, Mississippi World War II Slides. Photograph (from a color slide) of the company taking a "10-minute break" at Camp McCain, near Grenada, Mississippi, in the Spring of 1943. Photograph taken by Lt. Omer Austin Heacox, who was...
From the Camp McCain, Mississippi World War II Slides. Photograph (from a color slide) of the H.Q. Co. 502nd MP BN Training Area at Camp McCain, near Grenada, Mississippi, in the Spring of 1943. Photograph taken by Lt. Omer Austin Heacox, who was...
From the Camp McCain, Mississippi World War II Slides. Photograph (from a color slide) of the sawdust pit used for training in Judo at Camp McCain, near Grenada, Mississippi, in the Spring of 1943. Photograph taken by Lt. Omer Austin Heacox, who...
From the Camp McCain, Mississippi World War II Slides. Photograph (from a color slide) entitled "Come and Get It" of the mess line at Camp McCain, near Grenada, Mississippi, in the Spring of 1943. Photograph taken by Lt. Omer Austin Heacox, who was...
From the Camp McCain, Mississippi World War II Slides. Photograph (from a color slide) of the company returning after a hike to Camp McCain, near Grenada, Mississippi, in the Spring of 1943. Photograph taken by Lt. Omer Austin Heacox, who was with...
From the Camp McCain, Mississippi World War II Slides. Photograph (from a color slide) of the company on the first part of an all day hike at Camp McCain, near Grenada, Mississippi, in the Spring of 1943. Photograph taken by Lt. Omer Austin Heacox,...
From the Camp McCain, Mississippi World War II Slides. Photograph (from a color slide) of a music and bull horn session at Camp McCain, near Grenada, Mississippi, in the Spring of 1943. Photograph taken by Lt. Omer Austin Heacox, who was with the...
From the Camp McCain, Mississippi World War II Slides. Photograph (from a color slide) entitled "Rest" at Camp McCain, near Grenada, Mississippi, in the Spring of 1943. Photograph taken by Lt. Omer Austin Heacox, who was with the Military Police...
From the Camp McCain, Mississippi World War II Slides. Photograph (from a color slide) of the telephone switchboard on Bivouac at Camp McCain, near Grenada, Mississippi, in the Spring of 1943. Photograph taken by Lt. Omer Austin Heacox, who was...
From the Camp McCain, Mississippi World War II Slides. Photograph (from a color slide) of "detail" - camp duties - at Camp McCain, near Grenada, Mississippi, in the Spring of 1943. Photograph taken by Lt. Omer Austin Heacox, who was with the...
From the Camp McCain, Mississippi World War II Slides. Photograph (from a color slide) entitled "Retreat -Attention" of the company at attention at Camp McCain, near Grenada, Mississippi, in the Spring of 1943. Photograph taken by Lt. Omer Austin...
From the Camp McCain, Mississippi World War II Slides. Photograph (from a color slide) entitled "News from Home" of a man reading a letter at Camp McCain, near Grenada, Mississippi, in the Spring of 1943. Photograph taken by Lt. Omer Austin Heacox,...
From the Camp McCain, Mississippi World War II Slides. Photograph (from a color slide) of mail distribution at Camp McCain, near Grenada, Mississippi, in the Spring of 1943. Photograph taken by Lt. Omer Austin Heacox, who was with the Military...
From the Camp McCain, Mississippi World War II Slides. Photograph (from a color slide) of Lt. Dennis Cooking his own chow at Camp McCain, near Grenada, Mississippi, in the Spring of 1943. Photograph taken by Lt. Omer Austin Heacox, who was with the...
