Oral history.; Reverend Kenneth Haynes Sr. was born October 11, 1930, in Amite County, Mississippi. In 1958, he entered the ministry, enrolling in Harper Baptist College where he received a Diploma in Christian Education and a Doctorate of...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on July 2, 1974 with Mrs. Ellie J. Dahmer at her home in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Dahmer was born in Jasper County, Mississippi in 1925. After completing high school at Jasper County Training School she...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on April 14, 1972 and January 25, 1973 with Mississippi civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977). Hamer was a leading figure in the MFDP. She is best known for her 1964 national television...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on October 24, 1978 with Mr. Nathaniel H. Lewis at his home in McComb, Mississippi. Lewis was born in McComb, Mississippi. In 1928, Lewis and his father organized the McComb Independent Lodge NO. 846 of the...
Oral history.; Mr. Ulysses Sims was born on May 31, 1918, in Mendenhall, Mississippi and after his parents died was raised by his grandparents. In 1936, he entered the Piney Woods School of Mississippi, working to pay his own way through school....
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Illustrated by John R. Neill. Published in Chicago by Reilly & Britton Co., in 1908. Part of the Children's red books series.
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Published in Paris by Edmond Schoemaeker, Libraire-éditeur and Imprimé par Ogden et Cie., in London, circa 1870. Cover title. Printer from p. 6. Illustrations signed "Kronheim and Co.,...
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Published in Boston by DeWolfe, Fiske & Co., circa 1890. Title and imprint from cover. Figure of Red Riding Hood on cover folds out.
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Published in Chicago by M.A. Donohue & Co., copyright 1912. Imprint and series statement taken from cover. P. [2] and [3] of cover included in pagination. Printed on linen. Part of the Mother...
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Published in Chicago by M.A. Donohue & Co., in 1912. Cover title. Linen pages. Text printed in brown. Part of the Mother Hubbard series (no. 882).
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson. Published in London by Macmillan & Co., in 1898. Cover title. Full color illustrated paper covers. References: Osborne collection of early children's books, p. 33. ...
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Illustrated by Clara Powers Wilson. Published in Chicago by M.A. Donohue & Co., circa 1910s. Title, imprint, and series statements taken from cover. P. [2] and [3] of cover included in...
Letter, dated 1 November 1872, written by Joseph Reid Anderson, president and owner of Tredegar Iron Works in Richmond, Virginia to the New York firm of Messrs. Niel, Davidson & Co. relating to the payment of a bill.
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 7, 1991 with Miss Emma Ruth Corban in her home in Meridian, Mississippi. Corban was born in Fayette, Mississippi, on September 18, 1907. She completed a BA degree in English in 1929 and her Masters...
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 August 6, 1981 with Dr. W. J. Cunningham at his home in Memphis, Tennessee. William Jefferson Cunningham was born on December 23, 1905 in Iuka, Mississippi. In 1929, he graduated from the University of...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on May 11, 1977 with the Honorable Horace Buckley at his home in Jackson, Mississippi. Buckley was born on July 14, 1941 in Jackson, Mississippi. He obtained his undergraduate degree from Mississippi Valley...
Oral history.; Discusses her father, Erle Johnston. Describes his relations with Ross Barnett and his work with the State Sovereignty Commission, which she denies was ever a spy organization.
Oral history.; Interview conducted on August 12, 1977 with Edward L. McDaniel (born 1934). Mr. McDaniel was instrumental in organizing the Ku Klux Klan in 1962 in Mississippi as the Grand Kleagle for the whole state. He started a state Klan in...
