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.; Reverend Arthur Lewis Jr. was born on October 29, 1948, in Forest Home, Alabama. He grew up in Pensacola, Florida, where he was graduated from high school in 1967. From Jackson State University, he earned a B.S.W. degree, and from...
From the Arthur C. Clarke Papers .; Two typescript pages from Arthur C. Clarke's "The Cruel Sky," published in The Wind From the Sun: Stories of the Space Age; 8 x 10
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Typewritten letter from Arthur [Falk] to Joe and Nancy Ellin, dated July 22, 1964. Discusses the individual who assaulted Rabbi Arthur J. Lelyveld in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, and the...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on June 12, 2008 with Rev. S.V. and Virginia Adolph of Gulfport, MS. Mr. Adolph is a pastor at First Missionary Baptist Church in Gulfport and they discuss the church's role in recovery after Hurricane Katrina.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on March 6, 2009 and April 2, 2009 with James L. Black, a pastor at Faith Tabernacle of Praise in Biloxi, MS. Rev. Black describes the devastation that Hurricane Katrina wrought on the Mississppi Gulf Coast as...
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.; Mr. Wesley C. Webb was born in Biloxi, Mississippi, on April 2, 1938. After his graduation from high school, Mr. Webb entered the Navy, boarding the U.S.S. Helena for Japan. For two years and nine months, Mr. Webb served in the...
Interviews conducted on 04-21-1977 and 05-12-1977 with Unita Blackwell (born 1933). Ms. Blackwell was a field worker for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in 1964 and also served that year as a delegate of the Mississippi Freedom...
From the Hamlett (Ed) White Folks Project Collection. Shaw writes that, despite his use of a wheelchair, he is willing to work in any capacity that Ed Hamlett, state director of the White Folks Project (WFP), deems appropriate.
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Standing in front of the COFO-Hattiesburg project headquarters at 507 Mobile Street are volunteers Carolyn and Arthur Reese, Co-Coordinators of the COFO-Hattiesburg Freedom Schools during...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Rabbi Arthur J. Lelyveld shortly after he and fellow voter registration volunteers Lawrence Spears and David Owen were attacked by two Caucasian men from Collins, Mississippi. The assault took...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Rabbi Arthur J. Lelyveld leaves Methodist Hospital in Hattiesburg, Mississippi in a wheelchair on July 11, 1964, upon being released. Rabbi Lelyveld was hospitalized after being assaulted the...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; This photo shows a close-up of volunteer Arthur Reese, Co-Coordinator of the Hattiesburg Freedom Schools, during Freedom Summer in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, 1964.
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Volunteer Arthur Reese lectures to a class of Freedom School students at Palmers Crossing in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer, 1964.
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Close-up of volunteers Carolyn and Arthur Reese, Co-Coordinators of the COFO-Hattiesburg Freedom Schools during Freedom Summer, 1964.
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; This photo shows a close up of Arthur Reese who, along with his wife Carolyn Reese, was Co-Coordinator of the COFO-Hattiesburg Freedom Schools during Freedom Summer, 1964.
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Arthur (center background) and Carolyn (right background) Reese participate in a meeting of volunteers in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer, 1964. The Reeses were Co-Coordinators...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Volunteers Carolyn and Arthur Reese, Co-Coordinators of the COFO-Hattiesburg Freedom Schools during Freedom Summer, 1964, stand in front of Priest Creek Missionary Baptist Church at Palmer's...
