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 July 25, 2006 with Naseer and Zaheer Ahmad. Zaheer had been a taxi operator in New Orleans for twenty-five years when Katrina forced his family to Virginia. Zaheer recalls his life in New Orleans and...
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.; An interview conducted on July 18, 2007 with Deborah Sledge, an employee at Hattiesburg's The Inn on the Hill, who discusses Hurricane Katrina's impact on the guests and staff at the hotel and their post-storm methods of cooking,...
Oral history.; Mrs. Lorita Nelson Jones was born on July 19, 1909, in Biloxi, Mississippi. Her mother's family were originally from New Orleans, Louisiana, of Creole heritage; her grandmother, Olivia Lewis, spoke only in French. Her father Lamar...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on March 29 and April 13, 1977 with Mr. Amzie Moore at his home in Cleveland, Mississippi. Moore was born on September 23, 1911 in rural Mississippi, on the county line of Carroll and Grenada Counties. In...
Oral history.; Mr. Delmar Robinson was born in Biloxi, Mississippi, July 11, 1937. He attended Biloxi Colored School and M.F. Nichols School from which he graduated. Escaping the oppressive segregation of the Deep South, Mr. Robinson migrated to...
From the Margret and Hans Augusto Rey Papers. Illustrations of Curious George swinging on a vine in a tree. Framed original charcoal, color pencil, and watercolor illustration for p. 5 of Curious George by H.A. Rey (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1941).
From the Margret and Hans Augusto Rey Papers.; Ceramic medium-sized bowl, unglazed and charcoal colored. Made by Margret Rey, January 1966. 7" x 2" x 7"
From the Don Freeman Papers.; Charcoal pencil illustration of the main character on pebbled paper from Don Freeman's Inspector Peckit (1972). 14.5" x 12.5"
From the Kate Greenaway Papers. Charcoal drawing (54 x 38 cm.) Woman dancing with very young child. Purchased from Kenneth W. Rendell. Illustration not used in a publication.
