Transcribed copy of a letter written by Nancy Ellin requesting help in building up the book collection in the Hattiesburg Freedom Library. Specific needs include books about African-American history, books about civil rights and the Freedom...
Photograph taken from south of campus, across Hardy Street on 29th Avenue. The side of the University Pharmacy building is in the left foreground. The Administration Building is in the center background.
I See Her Still in My Dreams: The Southern Musical Boquet of Favorite Songs and Ballads, No. 8. Published by John C. Schreiner & Son, Cotton Avenue, Macon, GA.
Ah! I Have Sigh'd To Rest Me!: The Southern Musical Boquet of Favorite Songs and Ballads, No. 6. Published by John C. Schreiner & Son, Cotton Avenue, Macon, GA.
From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection.; Photograph of the Grove on campus at the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) in Oxford, September 1964. Taken from in front of the Lyceum, it shows the Grove and University Avenue in the background.
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. Black-and-white photograph of the gable end of the original Freedom House at 100 Rust Avenue in Holly Springs, Mississippi. A sign on the house reads "COFO SNCC" and shows the image of clasped...
Photograph of the ruins of a house on the corner of Ohio Avenue and Manor Street in Purvis, Mississippi. Standing home on right side of photo is probably the home of Mrs. M. O. Jordan; 5 x 4
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.; An interview conducted on August 25, 1971 with Erskine Caldwell (1903-1987). Mr. Caldwell was a prominent American author whose works include Tobacco Road, (1932) and God's Little Acre (1933).
Oral history.; An interview conducted February 21, 2007 with Thomas Brister, who describes his experiences during and after Hurricane Katrina on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on September 19, 2007 with Rich Westfall, Director of Community Development at Isle of Capri Casino in Biloxi, who describes Hurricane Katrina's devastating impact on the casino, the region, and the positive...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on February 21, 2007 with Ruth Christian, who describes losing her home to Hurricane Katrina and the struggles that ensued after the storm on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on July 18, 2006 with Odalee Fair. A resident of New Orleans, Ms. Fair discusses her experiences during and after Hurricane Katrina.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on June 4, 2007 with Jeff Bennett, Director of the Gulf Coast Mental Health Center. He describes his experience during and after Hurricane Katrina.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on February 20, 2008 with Ellis Cuevas, who describes life in the Waveland, MS, area before and after Hurricane Katrina.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on February 22, 2007 with Sarah McPherson, an employee at the Pascagoula Public Library, who describes Hurricane Katrina's devastation on the town, the relief efforts, and rebuilding after the storm.