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
Front page of the 22 February 1962 special edition of the Student Printz regarding the new university status. "It's University of Southern Mississippi Bill Passes House Goes to Barnett."
Photograph of the Cook Memorial (Joseph Anderson) Dedication Ceremonies on October 22, 1960. Pictured left to right: Professor John Nau - gave invocation, Architect J. Biggs Jr, Secretary of State Heber Ladner, Librarian Anna Roberts, President...
Transcribed copy of a memo describing three bombings that took place on June 22, 1964, in McComb, Mississippi. The homes of Fred Bates, C. C. Bryant, and Corline Andrews were bombed.
Basketball program for men's game between Mississippi Southern College and Centenary College, played on February 22, 1958. The team rosters are shown on one side, and the full schedule for Mississippi Southern is shown on the other side. Local...
Photograph of the addition to Joseph Cook Memorial Library. The new addition doubled the size of the library. Image appeared in the Student Printz on 22 October 1968.
Front page article from the Student Printz, "Dvorak Defends Credentials." Featured in the Student Printz, vol. 88, issue 30 (22 January 2004) on page 1.
From the Hilbun (Dr. B.B.) Collection. Panoramic photograph of a scene from a pageant titled, "Neka Camon" (New Spirit), which was presented at Mississippi Normal College on May 22, 1919. 8" x 33"
Oral history.; An interview conducted on August 2, 2007 and October 9, 2007 with Edmond Boudreaux, Jr., a longtime Mississippi Gulf Coast resident and active local historian of the region. Mr. Boudreaux discusses the impact of Hurricane Katrina on...
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 Donald Elmer Lawson Papers.; Letter received from Maury Solomon, senior editor at Franklin Watts Books, 22 October 1980, concerning Don Lawson's The Picture Life of Ronald Reagan; 8 1/2 x 11
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. Postcard mailed to Kathleen Dahl on April 22, 1965; image taken by Edwin Friend at Highlander Folk School in Monteagle, TN during Labor Day weekend 1957, features Martin Luther King, Jr., Abner W....
