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...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on March 19, 2008 with Vincent Creel. An employee of the City of Biloxi, Mr. Creel discussesthe city's preparation, response and recovery from Hurricane Katrina.
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 Resolution: Relating to overtures of peace. By Mr. H.W. Bruce; Referred to Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed by the Congress of the Confederate States of America on 19 December 1864.
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...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on August 26, 1975 with Mr. Charles Johnson at his home in Jackson, Mississippi. Johnson was born in 1911 in Amory, Mississippi. After receiving a degree in Science from Mississippi State University, he began...
Running summary of various incidents that occurred during the Mississippi Freedom Project, Summer 1964. Organized chronologically, each entry gives the city and the incident. Includes instances of harassment, hostility, and violence against civil...
Booklet from the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Transcribed copy of a booklet containing excerpts from and interpretations of the following documents: the Declaration of Independence, the United States Constitution, a speech...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on May 17, 1972 with Associate Justice Thomas Pickens Brady, of the Supreme Court of Mississippi in his chambers in Jackson, Mississippi. This is the second part of an interview conducted on March 4, 1972 with...
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 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.; 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.; 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.; 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.; 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"
