Typewritten letter from Matthew Zwerling to his parents, Israel and Florence Zwerling, dated August 11, 1964. Discusses work in Marks, Mississippi, the possibility of future work in Tunica, and the recent convention of the Mississippi Freedom...
Typewritten letter from Matthew Zwerling to his parents, Israel and Florence Zwerling, dated August 26, 1965. Discusses plans to leave Mississippi and offers suggestions for spending time with his family upon his return to New York.
Zoya Zeman's senior thesis was written after her participation in the Mississippi Freedom Project in the summer of 1964. Putting her work into context, she begins with a description of the background history of Mississippi. Zeman then recounts her...
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...
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...
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...
From the Hardy (William H. and Sallie J.) Papers. Letter from William Hardy to Sallie Hardy; written from Orange Court House, Virginia. Pages are missing from this letter.
From the Kate Greenaway Papers. Pencil sketch (26.5 x 19.5 cm.) Has handwritten 3 stanza verse beginning "Oh she has gone a sailing..." Illustration not used in a publication.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eddie Germano. Two football players are in the foreground of the cartoon, facing each other on the playing field. The player labeled "Russia" is dressed in an older style uniform and helmet and...
Oral history.; Mr. Alton G. Bankston was born outside of Laurel, Mississippi on June 5, 1941. Mr. Bankston majored in political science and history at Jones County Junior College and attended the University of Southern Mississippi. In 1963 he...
Oral history.; Angela Georgian was born in Greece in 1920 and emigrated to the United States in 1937. She and her mother and sister joined her father in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, where he had opened a small restaurant, Gus's Caf*. In 1947, Mrs....
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on April 1, 1993 and January 6, 1995 with Ariel Barnes (born 1917). Mrs. Barnes was born in Forest, Mississippi, but moved to Hattiesburg shortly after. She attended Alcorn University, where she earned a...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on October 25, 1976 with Bert Fells, a Hattiesburg native. Mr. Fells served in the Air Force from 1966 to 1969, including a tour in Vietnam. In 1972, he returned to Mississippi to live and became director of...
Oral history.; Mr. Boyce Holleman was born on February 26, 1924, in Wiggins, Mississippi. Mr. Holleman enrolled at the Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College in the fall of 1940, but transferred to the University of Mississippi to study law. In...
