Oral history.; Interview conducted on October 22, 1996 with Mrs. Josephine Clemons Bell (born 1909). Her teaching career in elementary education in the public school of Natchez-Adams County spans twenty-nine and a half years. After retiring in...
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.; 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.; An interview conducted on January 31, 1977 with Jimmy Carter Fairley (born 1921). A native of Greene County, Mississippi, Mr. Fairley was active in the civil rights movement at the local, state, and national levels.
Oral history.; Interview conducted on June 24, 1998 with J.C. Fairley, Mamie Phillips, and Charles Phillips, who were all active in the NAACP during the civil rights movement of the 1950s and the 1960s.
Oral history.; Mrs. Lorita Nelson Jones was born on July 19, 1909, in Biloxi, Mississippi. Her mother's family were originally from New Orleans, Louisiana, of Creole heritage; her grandmother, Olivia Lewis, spoke only in French. Her father Lamar...
Oral history.; Born on November 6, 1916, in Quito, Mississippi, Mrs. Martha Sisson Miller was the daughter of John William Sisson and Myrlea Johnson Sisson. She attended elementary and high school at Indianola City School. She attended Sunflower...
Photograph of Southern Mississippi cheerleaders with the Liberty Bell, a symbol of the rivalry with Tulane University (Battle for the Bell). Featured in the USM Alumni News, vol. 53, no. 1 (Summer 1999) on page 18.
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.; Interview conducted on May 11, 1977 with the Honorable Horace Buckley at his home in Jackson, Mississippi. Buckley was born on July 14, 1941 in Jackson, Mississippi. He obtained his undergraduate degree from Mississippi Valley...
Oral history.; Ms. Mary Ellen Leftwich was born on November 10, 1916, in Arkansas. Her mother died when she was a small child, and her father remarried. The family lived in Gunnison, Mississippi, on a farm; the young people in the community...
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
From the McLoughlin Brothers Papers. Color proof for cover Ding Dong Bell (New York: McLoughlin Bros., 18-- ) Ding dong bell series #1143, from the books series of the McLoughlin Brother Papers. The McLoughlin Brothers Papers contain manuscripts,...
Photograph of the Marshall Bell track. This track was the site of the Conference USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships in the Spring of 1997. Also found in the 1997 Southerner yearbook on page 74.
Photograph of Professor Bell Wiley. Also found in Dearly Bought, Deeply Treasured on page 69, and in the 1938 Southerner yearbook on page 16; 7 x 7 1/2
From the AAEC Editorial Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. This cartoon is in two panels. On the left side, Ronald Reagan is dressed as Santa Claus. He rings a bell and says, “Ho, Ho, Ho.” Sound waves from the bell are labeled, “Pledge to...
