Schedule of events for the 75th anniversary and homecoming activities. Events include an academic fair, pep rally, performance by George Carlin, and the football game against Florida State University.
Transcribed copy of a report by the General Legislative Committee of Mississippi based on findings from an investigation of the occupation of the University of Mississippi in 1962 by the United States Department of Justice. Action was taken in...
Transcribed copy of an essay written by a Freedom School volunteer. Describes the locations of the Freedom Schools, subjects taught, enrollment, activities, as well as the students' concerns regarding discrimination. Also discusses the burdens of...
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...
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...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Volunteer Arthur Reese lectures to a class of Freedom School students at Palmers Crossing in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer, 1964.
Photograph of President Aubrey Lucas with members of the original class of Mississippi Normal College at the university's 75th anniversary celebration. From left: Emily Cook Bickerstaff (daughter of President Joseph A. Cook), Mollie Graham...
Photograph of Golden Eagles basketball fans at a game. One holds (or is playing) a trombome. Another has a paper bag over his head with holes cut out for eyes; on the bag is written "Hokie fan" [Virginia Tech?]. Several fans hold newspapers....
Photograph of homecoming floats being built in front of the Administration Building. Photograph also found on page 164 of Chester M. Morgan's Dearly bought, deeply treasured, published in 1987.
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
