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...
From the Bruce Coville Papers.; Letter from Lisa Meltzer to Bruce Coville (12/18/95) concerning his book Bruce Coville's Book of Monsters II: More Tales to Give You the Creeps (1996). 8.5" x 11"
From the Bruce Coville Papers.; Letter (12/12/89) to Danielle McCafferty from Nina Tanleven (Bruce Coville) from Bruce Coville's The Ghost in the Big Brass Bed (1991). 8.5" x 11"
From the Bruce Coville Papers.; Three page typescript of introduction for Bruce Coville's Book of Magic II: More Tales to Cast a Spell on You (1997). 8.5" x 11"
From the Bruce Coville Papers.; Diagram of a seating chart (7/10/98) used by Bruce Coville in writing Attack of the Two Inch Teacher (1999). 8.5" x 11"
From the Bruce Coville Papers.; Photocopy of illustration sketch of Ellico vec Bur w/inset photo of Bruce Coville from his book Too Many Aliens (2000). 8.5" x 11"
From the Bruce Coville Papers.; Photocopy of a black and white photograph of Bruce Coville surveying schoolchildren about covers for his book I was a Sixth Grade Alien (1999). 8.5" x 11"
From the Bruce Coville Papers.; Character sketch/description (3 pp) of the main character in Bruce Coville's Jennifer Murdley's Toad (1992). 8.5" x 11"
From the Hamlett (Ed) White Folks Project Collection. Bruce Maxwell, in his letter to Ed [Hamlett], expresses his reservations and aspirations for poor whites, African-Americans, and the Freedom Democratic Party in Mississippi.
Oral history.; Interview conducted on July 25, 1991 with Mr. Maurice Black at his home near North Carrollton, Mississippi. Black was born on October 18, 1915, near Flora, Mississippi, in Madison County. After graduating from Hinds Junior College...
From the University of Southern Mississippi Art Museum collection. Watercolor of a cabin and trees with a barren corn field in the foreground, by J. Bruce Guraedy.
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on November 12, 1981 and February 6, 1982 with Judge J. P. Coleman. Coleman was born on December 9, 1914 in Fentress, Mississippi. After attending the University of Mississippi, he was invited to work in...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on August 2, 2007 and October 9, 2007 with Charles Benvenutti, a CPA in Bay St. Louis, MS. He describes his experience during and after Hurricane Katrina.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on August 2, 2007 and October 9, 2007 with Edmond Boudreaux, Jr., a longtime Mississippi Gulf Coast resident and active local historian of the region. Mr. Boudreaux discusses the impact of Hurricane Katrina on...
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...
