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.; Interview conducted on August 15, 1978 with Mr. Thomas Y. Minniece. Minniece was born in Meridian, Mississippi on October 9, 1912. He received a BA degree from the University of Texas in 1933 and a law degree from the University of...
Oral history.; Percy Brooks was born on November 15, 1911 to a family of farmers. His grandfather had been freed from slavery during the Civil War, and afterwards sharecropped and rented land to save money to buy eighty acres in 1909. Mr. Brooks...
Oral history.; Mr. Balfour William Ruff Sr. was born March 31, 1923, in Jackson, Mississippi. He moved to Tupelo at a young age and attended its public schools. For many years he operated the Ruff Dairy Farm, the first in the Tupelo area to...
Transcribed copy of a paper about racism in Mississippi during the 1960s. Follows the tribulations of college students who volunteered to register African Americans to vote during Freedom Summer. With regard to racism and white supremacy,...
From the Mabel Esther Allan Papers .; Photograph of Mabel Esther Allan in the Women's Land Army in 1940. The photo was taken at Brook Farm, Plumbley, Cheshire England, and shows Allan leading a mule and cart full of hay; 4 x 6
From the McLoughlin Brothers Papers. Brown proof of Raggedy Ann and the Laughing Brook by Johnny Gruelle (Springfield: McLoughlin Bros., 1943) Westfield classics, from the books series of the McLoughlin Brother Papers. The McLoughlin Brothers...
From the McLoughlin Brothers Papers. 2nd proof galley of Raggedy Ann and the Laughing Brook by Johnny Gruelle (Springfield: McLoughlin Bros., 1943) Westfield classics, from the books series of the McLoughlin Brother Papers. The McLoughlin Brothers...
