Photograph of Dr. Byron Green, President of the Forrest County Board of Supervisors and veterinarian. Dr Green assisted USM's class of 1934 in the construction of Lake Byron, which was named in his honor; 5 x 7
Photograph from the Johnston (Erle E., Jr.) Papers; Black-and-white photograph of Byron de la Beckwith taken in July 1963. Beckwith was convicted in 1994 for the 1963 murder of NAACP field secretary and civil rights activist Medgar Evers.
Photograph of Lake Byron with students, Lloyd Picott and Dorothy Andrews in the foreground; on the campus of the University of Southern Mississippi; 5 x 4
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.; Interview conducted in November, 1994, with Clearese Cook. Ms. Cook grew up in the Irene Chapel Community of Hattiesburg, Mississippi. She attended De Priest Consolidated School in the Palmers Crossing Community of Hattiesburg and...
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...
Photograph of Dr. Horace Fleming. Caption: "Dr. Fleming pauses for a moment to admire the beauty of the Hattiesburg campus from the bridge across Lake Byron, a favorite site of students seeking a bit of solitude among the throng of students." This...
Mississippi Southern College commemorative Wedgwood plate. The Administration Building in the center is bordered by a repeated image of Lake Byron and the bridge, pinecones, camellias, azaleas and magnolias.
Photograph of the Sunken Garden, later the site of McLemore Hall. The garden was built in 1932 as a jobs project during the early part of the Depression. Lake Byron is located just to the right of this picture. Both areas were part of a campus...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on October 21, 1996 with Mr. Charles Cobb (born 1943) in Washington, D.C. In the summer of 1962, he was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) field secretary in Ruleville, Mississippi, where he and...
A collection of ten 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...
