Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on April 14, 1972 and January 25, 1973 with Mississippi civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977). Hamer was a leading figure in the MFDP. She is best known for her 1964 national television...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on May 8, 1996 with voter registration activist Jan Handke (born May 10, 1945). Ms. Handke was a part of the Freedom Summer Project, becoming occupied with voter registration in Vicksburg and working 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.; Interview conducted on January 5, 1978 with Miss Florence Mars at her home in Philadelphia, Mississippi. Mars was born on January 1, 1923 in Philadelphia, Mississippi. She studied at Millsaps College and University of Mississippi,...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on March 19, 2008 with Vincent Creel. An employee of the City of Biloxi, Mr. Creel discussesthe city's preparation, response and recovery from Hurricane Katrina.
Booklet from the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Booklet compiled for delegates of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) who will attend the Democratic National Convention. Describes the MFDP and the contributions of...
Oral history.; Kathleen (Kat) Bergeron was born on April 23, 1950. She attended Gulfport East High School and the W. Page Pitt School of Journalism at Marshal University in Huntington, West Virginia. From 1995 to 1996, Ms. Bergeron attended...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on November 4, 1993 with Joseph E. Wroten (born 1925). Mr. Wroten became famous as one of only two Mississippi House Representatives who voted in favor of allowing blacks to enroll at the University of Mississippi.
Finding aid for manuscript collection. ; Materials pertaining to East's career as a newspaper publisher in Mississippi and as an advocate for civil rights for African Americans in the 1960s. For the full finding aid, see...
Finding aid for manuscript collection. ; This collection consists of 17 photocopied newspaper clippings and one photocopied letter regarding the civil rights movement of the 1960s. For the full finding aid, see...
Finding aid for manuscript collection. ; Two memoirs of Stoner's civil rights activities in Mississippi in the 1960s. For the full finding aid, see http://www.lib.usm.edu/~archives/m168.htm.
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on May 21, 1974 and January 26, 1976 with the Honorable Mildred Wells Norris. Norris was born in Ovett, Mississippi. She studied for one year at Mississippi State College for Women. Norris started working...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; An assessment of statistics on education, housing, income and employment, and health care issues in the southern United States during the 1960s, with special emphasis on Mississippi. The...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Report on statistics of the population, number of households, and labor and wage distribution in Forrest County, Mississippi. Includes the differences in these statistics from the 1950s...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Typewritten letter sent to President Lyndon B. Johnson with Student Voice newspapers in an effort to demonstrate the feelings of some African-American students in Hattiesburg,...
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs; Photograph of Hattiesburg Mayor Paul Grady with Commissioners Ford Vance (right) and Walter Parker (left), circa 1960s.
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs; Photograph of the traffic light at the intersection of Highway 49 and Hardy Street, circa late 1950s or early 1960s.
From the Hazelton (Margaret J.) Freedom Summer Collection; Black-and-white photograph, taken by Rev. Frazer Thomason, of Dr. Aaron Henry's pharmacy in Clarksdale, Mississippi. Dr. Aaron Henry was a prominent African-American civil rights activist...
From the Hazelton (Margaret J.) Freedom Summer Collection; One black-and-white photograph, taken by Rev. Frazer Thomason, of Dr. Aaron Henry, presumably inside the doctor's pharmacy in Clarksdale, Mississippi. Dr. Henry was a prominent...
