Oral history.; An interview conducted on February 22, 2007 with Paige Roberts, Director of Southeast Mississippi's Chapter of the Red Cross, who discusses the hurricane season of 2005, especially Hurricane Katrina's lingering devastation.
Oral history.; An interview with Robert Hirsch conducted on June 8, 2007. Hirsch describes his experiences as Superintendent of Ocean Springs School District during Hurricane Katrina.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on June 18, 1980 with Charles Hudson Griffin (born 1926). Griffin served in the office of U. S. Congressman John Bell Williams until 1968 when he campaigned for the position himself. He served three terms...
Memo from Virginia Steele, co-coordinator of the Mississippi Summer Project libraries, to librarians, dated July 28, 1964. Discusses improvements to the library collections, services offered, and various projects within the libraries.
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...
Article, "Mississippi: Rebuilding a Church," by Mark Panitch in the ADL Bulletin, circa 1965. The article discusses the efforts of a group of college students to rebuild the Antioch Baptist Church in Blue Mountain, Mississippi, which had been...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 26, 1977 with William Joel Blass (born 1917). As a lawyer in 1952, he successfully prosecuted the Boyce Holleman case by proving that voter fraud had kept Holleman from winning. Beginning in 1953, he...
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.; Mr. Augustus (Gus) Ashby Sr. was born in 1924, in Washington, D.C. and moved to Tupelo where he became active in the local church. After high school, he attended college in Holly Springs and Okolona, Mississippi. He was a member of...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on August 6, 1981 with Dr. W. J. Cunningham at his home in Memphis, Tennessee. William Jefferson Cunningham was born on December 23, 1905 in Iuka, Mississippi. In 1929, he graduated from the University of...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A huge elephant and a tiny donkey are dressed as men. The elephant is labeled "G.O.P. convention coverage" and is reading a large newspaper which he holds open. Behind him is...
From the Ben-Ami (Rabbi David Z.) Papers. This bulletin for Temple B'Nai Israel includes a message from Rabbi Ben-Ami on the meaning of the High Holy Days, a welcome to the new Rabbi, and a list of families in the B'Nai Israel community. It also...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Bulletin released by the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) regarding the June 7, 1966, primary elections. Discusses the increased violence against African Americans in...
From the Mantinband (Rabbi Charles) Papers, Article by Rabbi Charles Mantinband and published by the Anti-defamation League of B'nai B'rith in the May 1962 issue of the ADL Bulletin. Discusses his experiences as a rabbi living in Mississippi,...
From the T.P. Scott Papers. Bulletin No. 1 of the Mississippi Normal College, dated July 1913, including a catalog for the 1912-1913 school year and an announcement for the 1913-1914 school year. This copy belonged to Emily Nunnery. There are no...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on April 3, 1995 and June 8, 1995 with Constance Baker (born 1912). Mrs. Baker has spent her life working for civil rights and in teaching. She was involved in the Head Start program from its inception and...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on December 11, 1972 with Mr. Owen Cooper at his office in Yazoo City, Mississippi. Cooper was born on a farm near Vicksburg, Mississippi. He attended Culkin Academy in Vicksburg, and received a degree in...
Oral history.; Four interviews conducted on October 1, 2, and 23 of 1975, and July 1, 1976 with Mr. Hugh Clegg at his home in Anguilla, Mississippi. Clegg was born on July 17, 1898 in Mathiston, Mississippi. Clegg graduated from Millsaps...
Oral history.; Ms. Mary Ellen Leftwich was born on November 10, 1916, in Arkansas. Her mother died when she was a small child, and her father remarried. The family lived in Gunnison, Mississippi, on a farm; the young people in the community...
