Photograph of the Sunken Garden, later the site of McLemore Hall. The garden was built in 1932 as a jobs project during the early part of the Depression. Lake Byron is located just to the right of this picture. Both areas were part of a campus...
Photograph of three coeds in front of a P.W.A. sign. Also found in Dearly Bought, Deeply Treasured on page 52, and the 1939 Neka Camon yearbook on page 88; 7 x 5 1/2
Photograph of three men and two women reading copies of a 1953 Hattiesburg American newspaper with the headline "Southern mops up Tide" following a victory over the University of Alabama football team in 1953. Photograph also found on page 93 of...
Photograph of two unidentified girls standing on a dirt road on the Mississippi Normal College campus; College Hall can be seen in the background. Also found in Dearly Bought, Deeply Treasured on page 25; 6 x 4
Photograph of university President Aubrey Lucas, M. M. Roberts, and Governor Cliff Finch, taken at the dedication of M. M. Roberts Stadium. This photo can also be found in the September 28, 1976, Student Printz and in Chester M. Morgan's book,...
Photograph of Wilbur Stout and Jim Ford. Wilbur Stout is seated and Jim Ford is standing. Also found in Dearly Bought, Deeply Treasured on page 83, and in the 5/20/1949 Student Printz; 6 x 8
Photograph of Willie Heidelberg, wearing the No. 1 jersey, rushing in a football game. Also found on page 123 of Chester M. Morgan's Dearly bought, deeply treasured, published in 1987, and in the 1972 Southerner yearbook on page 159.
Photograph of Wimpy's, a cooperative store, sponsored by the Student Christian Federation. The profits were used for the betterment of social and religious life on campus. Also found in Dearly Bought, Deeply Treasured on page 56, and the 1939 Neka...
Photograph taken at the Washington Monument in Washington D.C. The band was enroute with the "Know Mississippi Better" train through the eastern states and Canada August 12-31, 1926. A.F. Fugitt was the band director. Image featured in Dearly...
Oral history.; Mr. Sank Powe was born in the Delta in Elizabeth, Mississippi, on April 20, 1942. Growing up, Mr. Powe often worked in the cotton fields for meager wages. Mr. Powe attended Mound Bayou High School, Jackson State University and Delta...
Program cover reads, "Hattiesburg, Miss. The Logical Point for the State Normal School September Sixth 1910 Hotel Hattiesburg." The purpose of this banquet was to persuade the Board of Trustees to locate the new college in Hattiesburg. Also found...
Oral history.; Mr. Roberts Wilson Jr. was born July 6, 1941, in Rosedale, Mississippi. After attending both Vanderbilt University and the University of Mississippi, he went to Washington. D.C., during the mid 1960s where he worked in the office of...
Oral history.; Dr. John Paul Quon was born June 11, 1942, in Moorhead, Mississippi. His parents emigrated from China to Mississippi to participate in a family-owned grocery store. Dr. Quon was in the first public school class in Mississippi that...
Oral history.; Three interviews conducted on October 23, 29, and 30, 1996 with Hollis Watkins (born 1941), the twelfth child of sharecroppers. Mr. Watkins was jailed for participating in the Woolsworth's lunch counter sit-in in McComb and a...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on November 11, 1995 with Larry Rubin (born 1942). In 1961, he helped to register voters in the South for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. In late 1963 and in 1964, Mr. Rubin worked as a civil rights...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on 1995 November 21 with Dr. Peter Orris (born 1945). Dr. Orris participated in his first civil rights demonstration when he was only eleven. In 1964, he was recruited to participate in the Summer Project in...
Oral history.; Mr. Aaron Morgan was born December 18, 1909. He attended Oak Hill School through the seventh grade and then attended Auburn Consolidated Schools, driving a covered wagon with a pair of mules as a school ";bus."; He finished high...
Oral history.; Reverend Sammie Rash was born in Sunflower County, Mississippi, on July 31, 1942. His parents were sharecroppers, and in 1949 they moved the family to the McGann plantation in Bolivar County, where Reverend Rash grew up. In 1963...
