Oral history.; An interview conducted on June 18, 1980 with Charles Hudson Griffin (born 1926). Griffin served in the office of U. S. Congressman John Bell Williams until 1968 when he campaigned for the position himself. He served three terms...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on February 22, 2007 with Anne Petty, a retired schoolteacher, who describes hearing about Hurricane Katrina from her hospital bed in Washington and learning of its damage to her home in Pascagoula.
Oral history.; The Honorable Frank D. Barber was born on April 2, 1929, in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Barber attended the University of Mississippi for a year before volunteering for the U.S. Army which involved National Guard work in the U.S. and...
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.; A native of Mississippi, Mrs. Bates received degrees from Tougaloo College and West Virginia University, with further study at the University of Colorado and the University of Denver. She has been a resident of Denver, Colorado, for...
Transcribed copy of affidavits describing incidents of harassment and violence in Mississippi during the summer of 1964, not including statements about events considered widely publicized.
A collection of ten 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...
A collection of six 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...
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...
Transcribed copy of a document detailing the curriculum of Freedom Schools. Begins with a Table of Contents showing the major curriculum divisions: academic, citizenship, and recreational and artistic. Also gives details of activities and materials...
Oral history.; Mr. Ray William (Buck) Wells was born August 21, 1916, on a dairy farm three-fourths of a mile southwest of Mississippi Normal College (now The University of Southern Mississippi). Sometime around 1920 or 1921 he moved into...
cartoon by Allen Johnson; A distinguished looking man sits in a plush chair behind a desk. A second man has pulled up to the desk and offers the first man a cigarette, which he declines. Behind the desk is a huge window that looks onto a series...
cartoon by Allen Johnson; A man labeled "U.S. Taxpayer" sweats and hunches beneath the extraordinary weight of two pigs that he carries on his back. The first and larger of the two pigs is labeled "Federal tax" The second and smaller of the two...
cartoon by Allen Johnson; A proud looking young man carries books and wears a uniform labeled "ROTC" He walks along a university sidewalk. A disheveled looking man wearing sandals and long hair runs up to the uniformed man; he carries a board with...
cartoon by Allen Johnson; A shabbily dressed, barefoot man labeled "Hungry countries" sits Indian-style on the ground in front of a plate. He holds a grenade in his hands. A crate of ammunition labeled "Food peace plan, from USA" is open and sits...
cartoon by Allen Johnson; An elderly man and woman walk beneath a small unbrella labeled "10% increase" that barely offers them any protection from the impending rain. A label attached to the umbrella reads "Social security benefits" The man and...
cartoon by Allen Johnson; Christopher Columbus and a Viking stand face to face, having an argument. With one hand, Columbus gestures toward a ruined, polluted city; with the other hand, he points a finger of blame at the Viking.
cartoon by Allen Johnson; Two cars speed dangerously along a road that skirts the edge of a cliff. The first car is labeled "Technology" and transports test tubes and other objects that would typically be found in a laboratory. The second car,...
cartoon by Allen Johnson; Two sieves labeled "Federal Income Tax" are held in midair by a person whose cuff links are labeled "IRS" One of the sieves is very fine-meshed and the other has mesh with very large holes. The large-meshed sieve is...
Certificate awarded to Sarah E. Allen upon graduation from Mississippi Normal College. This certificate is from the first MNC session; 50 women and 6 men graduated in 1913.
