Oral history.; Interview conducted on May 18, 1972 with Ms. Ruby Magee at College Hall at the University of Southern Mississippi. Magee was born in 1940 in Tylertown, Mississippi. In 1962, she received a BA in history and political science from...
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of newspaper editor Mary D. Cain campaigning for governor of Mississippi in the 1951 election. Cain, a Democrat, was the first woman to run for governor of...
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of newspaper editor Mary D. Cain campaigning for governor of Mississippi in the 1951 election. Cain, a Democrat, was the first woman to run for governor of...
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of newspaper editor Mary D. Cain campaigning for governor of Mississippi in the 1951 election. Cain, a Democrat, was the first woman to run for governor of...
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of newspaper editor Mary D. Cain campaigning for governor of Mississippi in the 1951 election. Cain, a Democrat, was the first woman to run for governor of...
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 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...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on April 1, 1993 and January 6, 1995 with Ariel Barnes (born 1917). Mrs. Barnes was born in Forest, Mississippi, but moved to Hattiesburg shortly after. She attended Alcorn University, where she earned a...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on September 20, 1979 with Dr. Dewey Lane at the Robinson Lane Surgical Clinic in Pascagoula, Mississippi. Lane was born on September 27, 1934 in Starkville, Mississippi. He attended Vanderbilt University from...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on November 16, 1977 with George Rogers (born 1927). Mr. Rogers, a Rhodes Scholar, was elected to the Mississippi House of Representatives, where he served for more than twenty years. He became well known for his...
