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...
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 July 30, 1980 with Mr. Erle Johnston at his home in Forest, Mississippi. Johnston was born on October 10, 1917 in Garyville, Louisiana. In 1941, he moved Forest, Mississippi and bought the fledgling newspaper,...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on October 28 and November 2, 1976 with Professor Charles G. Marx at the University of Southern Mississippi Campus in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Marx was born on November 23, 1932 in McComb, Mississippi. ...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on June 5, 1999 with Sheila Michaels (born 1939). She attended the College of William and Mary, but was suspended for her political and racial opinions while on the school's newspaper board. In 1961, she joined...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on July 24, 1999 with Joseph Schwartz (born 1938). Schwartz was active in Friends of SNCC at Berkeley and went South in the autumn of 1964. He worked in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, from September 1964 to March 1965.
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on April 8 and 13, 1982 with Mr. E. Hammond Smith at his home in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Smith was born on December 17, 1894 in Bladen Springs, Alabama. His family moved to Hattiesburg, Mississippi and...
From the Zoya Zeman Freedom Summer Collection. Thirty-six pages (typewritten and handwritten) recounting Zoya Zeman's experiences in Mississippi from June 24, 1964, through September 6, 1964.
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
Photograph of an editorial cartoon entitled, "Saturday Morning at Hattiesburg Hall." Drawing of female students drying their hair in front of Hattiesburg Hall. Also found in Dearly Bought, Deeply Treasured on page 24, and in the 1920 Neka Camon...
Photograph of an editorial cartoon entitled, "Social Hour at the P.O." Drawing of students sitting on the steps of the post office entrance, another student asks, "Has the mail came?" Also found in Dearly Bought, Deeply Treasured on page 24, and in...
Photograph of an editorial cartoon entitled, "Sunday Afternoon Visitors." Also found in Dearly Bought, Deeply Treasured on page 24, and in the 1920 Neka Camon yearbook on page 61; 6 1/2 x 4 1/2
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Paul Carmack. A personified scroll of paper labeled "Court packing proposal" stands on a ladder that leans against the facade of the U.S. Supreme Court building. The scroll, with a paint brush...
From the Margret and Hans Augusto Rey Papers.; Newspaper page of cartoons in Marianne, dated 30 June 1937, with handwritten notes for poems used in an published book.
Flyer from the Campbell (Will D.) Papers; Flyer that reads,"Ku Klux Klan Rides Again," posted to gain support for the Aryan Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. According to the flyer, all inquiries were to be directed to Horace Sherman Miller of Waco,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Knudsen. Charles de Gaulle stands at the base of a stack of giant coins labeled "Franc." His hands are on the stack, and he is pushing with all his might. The stack has begun to curve and...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Jon Kennedy. There are two frames in this cartoon. In the upper frame, labeled "The sixties," a man is frightened as he encounters a two-headed giant labeled "Communist aggression." The giant...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Paul Carmack. Two groups of people push on opposite sides of a giant globe with latitude and longitude lines. The globe is labeled, "Today's world." The larger group, on the left side, is...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eddie Germano. Uncle Sam, dressed as a firefighter, runs across the globe with a fire hose labeled "All-out peace effort" toward a large fire labeled "Vietnam." Three men, one wearing a...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Knudsen. Uncle Sam kneels at the edge of a bridge labeled "Bridge To Moscow" and tries to attach a board with his claw hammer. Below him on the ground is Leonid Brezhnev (labeled...
