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
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.; An interview conducted on February 22, 2007 with Harry McDonald, Sr., a retired engineer at Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Mississippi, who discusses Hurricane Katrina's effect on his neighborhood, his experience with FEMA, and...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on August 30, 1978 with Thomas Jefferson Tubb (born 1899). Mr. Tubb served as chairman of the Clay County Executive Committee for 47 years from 1928 to 1975 and during the Dixiecrat movement from 1950 to 1956....
Photograph showing principal buildings of the campus. Pictured (left to right): College Hall, Southern Hall, Forrest County Hall, Hattiesburg Hall, Mississippi Hall, vice president's home, and president's home. The view is from the southeast corner...
Photograph of campus buildings with Bennett Auditorium in the center. The view is from the southeast and may have been taken from the top of Southern Hall. Featured in the 1939 Neka Camon yearbook on page 9.
Photograph of campus buildings, including Bennett Auditorium (foreground), the Administration Building (left), and College Hall (right background). [Photograph taken from the top of Mississippi Hall?] Photo also found in the 1999 Southerner...
Photograph showing principal buildings of the campus. Pictured (left to right): College Hall, Southern Hall, Forrest County Hall, Hattiesburg Hall, Mississippi Hall, vice president's home, and president's home. The view is from the southeast corner...
Oral history.; An interview conducted August 29, 2006 with Pam McVey, a nurse at Biloxi Regional Medical Center, who describes Hurricane Katrina's devastating effects on the hospital and its patients.
Oral history.; Interview conducted on November 3, 1993 with Horace H. Harned Jr. (born 1920). He was a former Mississippi State legislator, a member of the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission, and an active segregationist during the years of...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on November 6, 1979 with Dr. Arthur Lewis, emeritus professor of mathematics, emeritus professor of physics and astronomy, and emeritus Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Mississippi. Lewis...
Oral history.; Born in 1947, Dr. Story was graduated from Mississippi Valley State University in 1969 where he earned a B.S.; he earned an M.Ed. from Delta State University. During his varied career he has been a sharecropper, a public school...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on October 25, 1993 with Mrs. Raylawni Branch. Branch was born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, in 1941. After graduating from high school, she married and had three children. In 1965, Branch attended USM for one...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on August 21, 1997 with Rims Barber (born 1936). In 1964, he participated in Mississippi Freedom Summer with the National Council of Churches and returned to Mississippi with the Delta Ministry in 1965 to work in...
Photograph of the Roberts School, a one room schoolhouse from Jackson County which now stands in the courtyard of Owings-McQuagge Hall. Featured in the 1992 Southerner yearbook on page 309.
