From the University of Southern Mississippi Art Museum collection. Oil on canvas painting of African American men and women dancing with buildings in the background, by Matthew Yarrell.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on May 19, 2008 with David Baria, a resident of Bay St. Louis during Hurricane Katrina. He describes his experience before, during, and after the storm.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on May 14, 2008 with Robert E. Bass, Jr. (born 1955). Mr. Bass earned degrees from Mississippi State University and the University of Mississippi Law School. He has served in many civic capacities, including...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on February 21, 2007 with Aimee Gautier-Dugger, who describes her experience waiting out the storm in Gautier, the city her ancestors founded, and the struggle to regroup after the storm.
A large crowd of people listen as President Aubrey Lucas (bottom left) gives remarks at the ribbon cutting ceremony for the new Polymer Science Research Center. Featured in the USM Alumni News, vol. 43, no. 4 (Spring 1991) on page 36.
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...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on August 20, 1997 and August 28, 1997 with Peter H. Stewart (born 1934). He began teaching school in Edwards, Mississippi, in the fall of 1961. In August 1969, he worked for Friends of Children, a Head Start...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 5, 1998 with Judge Fred L. Banks, Jr. (born 1942). In the late 1960s, Judge Banks began his law career by serving for the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund. He was elected three times to the House of...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on June 19, 2006 with artist Lori K. Gordon. Ms. Gordon discusses her community, Clermont Harbor, Mississippi, before Hurricane Katrina, as well as her experiences afterward. Pieces from Ms. Gordon's work, The...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on February 22, 2007 with Gwendolyn Beard, a fourth-generation Mississippian who desribes her experieneces during and after Hurricane Katrina in Moss Point, MS.
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...
Commemorative bumper sticker in gold and black with "Metro" and "1991 champs Southern Mississippi." The bumper sticker also has a drawing of an arm dropping a basketball through a hoop.
Cover of the Winter 1991 edition of the USM Alumni News, vol. 43, no. 3. Photograph features football coach Jeff Bower and has the caption, "Dang, it's great to have him back."
From the University of Southern Mississippi Art Museum collection. Colorful mixed media piece made with painted found objects, canvas, rope, ribbon, paper, and acrylic paint, by Mandy Kuykendall Buchancan.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man labeled “LA. lottery” is wearing old-fashioned clothing and a bowler hat, and he has a handle-bar moustache. He is standing beside a raffle/lottery wire cylinder...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man labeled “Lottery” is wearing old-fashioned clothing and a bowler hat, and he has a handle-bar moustache. He is standing beside a raffle/lottery wire cylinder basket...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man wearing old-fashioned clothing and a bowler hat holds a large lottery ticket in his hand. The man's bowler hat has a playing card stuck into the brim. The ticket is...
From the Bruce Coville Papers.; Letter (12/12/89) to Danielle McCafferty from Nina Tanleven (Bruce Coville) from Bruce Coville's The Ghost in the Big Brass Bed (1991). 8.5" x 11"