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.; Viola Brown Sanders was born in Sidon, Mississippi, on February 21, 1921. After Miss Sanders finished her education, she taught school for two years in Glen Allan, Mississippi. In 1943, Miss Sanders joined the United States Navy...
Photograph of Athletic Director, Richard Giannini, as he unveils the new athletic mark featuring a golden eagle. Featured in the Talon, vol. 57, no. 4 (Spring 2003) on page 35.
Photograph of Roland Dale, the Athletic Director. Also found in Dearly Bought, Deeply Treasured on page 124, and in the 1977 Southerner yearbook on page 100; 5 x 7
Oral history.; Interview conducted on February 27, 1991 in the city hall of Corinth, Mississippi with Mayor Edward S. Bishop, Sr. Bishop was born in Starkville, Mississippi on December 11, 1907. In 1926, he completed high school at Jackson...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on May 30, 2007 with Glen East, Superintendent of Gulfport, Mississippi Schools. Mr. East discusses the impact of Hurricane Katrina on Gulfport Schools.
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 September 17, 1980 with the Honorable Tony Byrne, former mayor of Natchez, Mississippi at his office in the Natchez City Hall. Byrne was born on May 18, 1936 in Natchez, Mississippi. He attended Mississippi...
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.; Mr. O.W. Reily Jr. was born on June 17, 1924, in Shreveport, Louisiana. As a child, he attended public school in Louisiana and was active in sports, including track, basketball, and boxing. From October, 1941, through November,...
Commemorative bumper sticker in gold and black with "Metro" and "1991 champs Southern Mississippi." The bumper sticker also has a drawing of an arm dropping a basketball through a hoop.
Photograph of the Pat Ferlise Center sign. The Pat Ferlise athletic ticket office provides convenient access to students and alumni. Also found in the 1997 Southerner yearbook on page 5.
Photograph of athletic trainers Dustin Hill and Donna DeSilvey tending to injured football player Jamaal Alexander during the game against the University of Alabama (from the yearbook caption). Photograph from the 1997 Southerner yearbook, page 110.
Photograph of a Lady Eagles basketball player (No. 15) with the ball in the Metro Conference Ladies Championship game against Memphis State. Featured in the 1985 Southerner yearbook on page 86.
Photograph of Bill McLellan, Athletic Director, during his retirement announcement. Featured in the USM Alumni News, vol. 52, no. 3 (Winter 1999), p. 10.
Photograph of four football players dressed in new uniforms. Focus groups that met to consider new uniforms included fans, donors, faculty, and members of the business community and athletic department. Photograph featured in the Talon, vol. 57,...
Cartoon by Ricky Nobile, "Dream...Believe...Achieve!," about the plans of Athletic Director, Richard Giannini. Featured in the Talon, vol. 57, no. 4 (Spring 2003) on page 34.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man dressed in athletic clothing is labeled "New Orleans' participating agencies." He is holding up with one hand a huge weight labeled, "United Fund $4.4 million Goal." The...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Hy Rosen. Leonid Brezhnev stands on the 1st place platform of an Olympic-style awards podium wearing a medal labeled "50% more land-based missiles." An arm with a spike collar on the wrist...
