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.; Mrs. Varnell Homan was born on February 5, 1925, in Mooreville, Mississippi. In 1936, the year of Tupelo's worst tornado, she moved to Shannon, Mississippi. In 1942 she married Elkin P. Homan, and they were farmers. To make a...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 23, 1977 with Mr. Jimmy Swan. Swan was born in Cullman County, Alabama. He ran away from home when he was thirteen or fourteen and ended up in Wayne County, Mississippi. Swan sang in nightclubs and...
Photograph of Miss Jackie Macon featured in the 1956 Southerner yearbook on page 177. Popular and talented too, is this freshman beauty from Pensacola, Florida.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A giant prince sits on a box next to the Mississippi River as it flows through New Orleans. He is reading a book titled "How to awaken a sleeping beauty," and nearby is a sign...
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...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on June 6, 2008 with Rev. Lee J. Adams, Jr., a pastor at Little Rock Baptist Church in Gulfport, MS. Mr. Adams discusses the role of the church in recovering from Hurricane Katrina.
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.
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.; Discusses youth, racial attitudes, and teaching African American and white children as a substitute teacher. Also discusses life during the Great Depression, and rationing during World War II. Talks about the various employment she...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on June 18, 1992 and March 9, 1993 with Mr. C.B. "Buddie" Newman at his home in Valley Park, Mississippi. Newman was born on May 8, 1921 in Valley Park, Mississippi. In 1942, he left his job with the Southern...
Oral history.; Ms. Sarah Bernice Arnold was born January 25, 1913, in Saltillo, Mississippi. She lived through the Depression and the closing of the banks in the 1930s, at which time she went to work sewing in a factory in Tupelo. Her husband,...
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Published in New York by McLoughlin Bros., Inc., circa 1880s. Title, imprint, and series statements from cover. P. [2] and [3] of cover included in pagination. Printed on linen. Alphabet on p....
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Includes other stories based on the tales in the "Blue fairy book". Edited by Andrew Lang and illustrated by H.J. Ford. Published in London by Longmans, Green, in 1890. Bound in deep blue cloth...
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. By the Brothers Grimm, and pictured by John R. Neill. Published in Chicago by Reilly and Britton, in 1908. Book has a dust jacket. Part of the Children's red books series.
From the Ingram-Day Lumber Company Photographs Collection. Photograph of a section of the tree-lined banks of the Tombigbee River. The original caption reads, "Just a Beauty Spot on the Tombigbee River at Woodbluff, Alabama."
Materials in this collection were donated by William M. Colmer: First accession-1970. Additional information online at: http://www.lib.usm.edu/legacy/archives/m024.htm
Photograph of Dr. Horace Fleming. Caption: "Dr. Fleming pauses for a moment to admire the beauty of the Hattiesburg campus from the bridge across Lake Byron, a favorite site of students seeking a bit of solitude among the throng of students." This...
