Oral history.; Dr. Forest Kent Wyatt was born on May 27, 1934, in Berea, Kentucky. He graduated from Delta State College (now Delta State University) with a double degree in mathematics and health, physical education, and recreation. He then began...
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...
Address delivered before the Virginia State Convention by Hon. Fulton Anderson, Commissioner from Mississippi, Hon. Henry L. Benning, Commissioner from Georgia, and Hon. John S. Preston, Commissioner from South Carolina.
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 November 1, 1977 with R.B. Layton. Mr. Layton was involved in the Jackson Public Schools as a teacher, a principal, and a curriculum director from the late 1930s to the middle 1970s. Layton was director of...
Oral history.; Mr. Edward Sternberg was born on October 22, 1901, in Louisville, Kentucky. He was educated in private schools and graduated from Grady School, Louisville, in June 1915. He worked in a variety of jobs as a boy and began his first...
Transcribed copy of a summary of the development of Mississippi Freedom Schools, lists of the number of schools and the number of students that attended each. Also includes an account of violent attacks against African Americans in Mississippi...
Report of the Secretary of the Treasury to the Speaker of the House of Representatives. Includes Report of the Commissioner of Taxes to Attorney General.
From the Margret and Hans Augusto Rey Papers.; Large German language poster for the Xyreen shaving lotion advertising campaign created by H.A. Rey undated. 36.5" x 50"
From the T.P. Scott Papers. Bulletin No. 1 of the Mississippi Normal College, dated July 1913, including a catalog for the 1912-1913 school year and an announcement for the 1913-1914 school year. This copy belonged to Emily Nunnery. There are no...
Photograph of President Aubrey Lucas and others at the Cook Library ground breaking ceremony. Also featured in the 1993 Southerner yearbook on page 50.
Photograph of Cary Thrash, Herb Ivison, Liz Payne, Larry Payne, Leonard Farmer, Jim Payne, and Senator Trent Lott on their way to the NFC Championship Game in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Featured in the USM Alumni News, vol. 50, no. 4 (Spring 1997) on...
Head coach Jeff Bower speaks to the media about Brett Favre prior to Super Bowl XXXI. Photograph featured in the USM Alumni News, vol. 50, no. 4 (Spring 1997) on page 20.
Photograph of the campus radio station, WUSM. Caption: The station gives students opportunities for hands-on experience in broadcasting. News anchor, Brian Flynt, a senior, waits for a commercial break to end. Also found in the 1997 Southerner...
Photograph of Dr. Horace Fleming on his first day in office as the President of the University of Southern Mississippi. Featured in the USM Alumni News, vol. 50, no. 3 (Winter 1997) on page 3.
