From the Ashley Bryan Papers.; Signed and matted proof for illustration created by Ashley Bryan for Christmas Gif': An Anthology of Christmas Poems, Songs, and Stories (1993). 5.5" x 7"
From the Ashley Bryan Papers.; Signed and matted proof for illustration created by Ashley Bryan for Christmas Gif': An Anthology of Christmas Poems, Songs, and Stories (1993). 6" x 5.5"
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. Brochure describing the mission and motivations of the James E. Chaney Institute of Laurel, Mississippi, incorporated in 1993. Includes biographical information on James Earl Chaney and defines...
From the Jan Pienkowski Papers.; First two pages of hardcover "sketch dummy" from Jan Pienkowski's ABC Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Creatures (1993). 22.5" x 8" x 10"
From the Jan Pienkowski Papers.; Page (p. 2) from hardcover dummy with hand-colored spreads and pasted text from Jan Pienkowski's ABC Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Creatures (1993). 22" x 6.5" x 11"
From the Larry Dane Brimner Papers.; Record of submissions (notes on inclusion of characters) from Larry Dane Brimner's Max and Felix (1993). 8.5" x 11"
From the University of Southern Mississippi Art Museum collection. Oil on masonite painting of a Hattiesburg, Mississippi street from the viewpoint of an upper floor of a builiding, by Brian Goe.
Oral history.; Mr. Lee Owens, Jr. was born on May 7, 1921, in Natchez, Mississippi. As a child, Mr. Owens worked in a cotton field for half a day while attending school for half a day. Because his parents could not afford to send him to school, he...
Oral history.; Discusses her father, Erle Johnston. Describes his relations with Ross Barnett and his work with the State Sovereignty Commission, which she denies was ever a spy organization.
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.; Mrs. Sarah Harris Ruffin was born on April 15, 1914. Her parents came to Hattiesburg in the early 1900s. When young, Mrs. Ruffin did domestic and warehouse work. In 1949, she began working at the Brooklyn Jewish Hospital as a nurse's...
Oral history.; Mr. James Madison Johnson was born on March 17, 1955, in Laurel, Mississippi. During his childhood, he lived in George County, Lucedale, Leaf, and McLain, Mississippi. Mr. Johnson attended college at Mississippi Valley State,...
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.; Dr. Antone Walter Tannehill, Jr., was born May 22, 1929, in New Orleans, Louisiana, but grew up in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. He attended Vanderbilt University and Duke University Medical School. He served an internship at the...
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.; Dr. John Paul Quon was born June 11, 1942, in Moorhead, Mississippi. His parents emigrated from China to Mississippi to participate in a family-owned grocery store. Dr. Quon was in the first public school class in Mississippi that...
