Oral history.; Interview conducted on September 14, 1977 with Mr. Semmes Luckett, attorney at law, at his office in Clarksdale, Mississippi. Luckett was born on October 28, 1905 in Yazoo City, Mississippi. He entered the University of Mississippi...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on September 2, 1976 with the Honorable Hervey O. Hicks at his home in Benton, Mississippi. Hicks was born on a farm near Benton, Mississippi, in Yazoo County in 1900. In 1931, he ran a successful campaign for...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on April 16, 1985 with Mr. Thomas Y. Minniece. Minniece was born in Meridian, Mississippi on October 9, 1912. He received a BA degree from the University of Texas in 1933 and a law degree from the University of...
Finding aid for manuscript collection. ; The Peggy Jean Connor papers contain 2 newspaper articles, a memoir of the civil rights movement in Mississippi written by herself, a school report by her grandson, and an undergraduate thesis concerning...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on August 15, 1978 with Mr. Thomas Y. Minniece. Minniece was born in Meridian, Mississippi on October 9, 1912. He received a BA degree from the University of Texas in 1933 and a law degree from the University of...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on September 2, 1981 with Mrs. Irene Napier at her home in Mount Olive, Mississippi. Napier was born on December 21, 1917 at Mount Olive in Covington, Mississippi. After having studied two years at Jones County...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Peggy Jean Connor studying documents during Freedom Summer 1964. She is in Jean's Beauty Shop (her place of business) located at 510 Mobile Street in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Connor was...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Peggy Jean Connor and Sandy Leigh handle the finances of the COFO-Hattiesburg Project in Connor's place of business, Jean's Beauty Shop at 510 Mobile Street in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, across...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Peggy Jean Connor in her place of business, Jean's Beauty Shop, at 510 Mobile Street in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, across the street from COFO-Hattiesburg headquarters at 507 Mobile Street,...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on August 30, 1978 with Thomas Jefferson Tubb (born 1899). Mr. Tubb served as chairman of the Clay County Executive Committee for 47 years from 1928 to 1975 and during the Dixiecrat movement from 1950 to 1956....
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Close-up of local activist Peggy Jean Connor, participating in a meeting of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer, 1964.
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Marie Blalock, Peggy Jean Connor, and Vassie Patton (left to right) at a Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) meeting held in the sanctuary of a local African American church in...
From the Political Campaign Collection. Postcard for the political campaign of former Mississippi Governor Martin Sennett (Mike) Connor, send by O.D. Loper, the campaign manager. The postcard lists times of radio broadcasts featuring Mike Connor....
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Herbert Randall's close-up of Sandy Leigh taken in Peggy Jean Connor's place of business, Jean's Beauty Shop at 510 Mobile Street in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, across the street from...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Local activists and volunteers participate in a meeting of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) at the St. Paul United Methodist Church in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; A view of a meeting of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) from the rear of the St. Paul United Methodist Church in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer, 1964. Seated at...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. An African American male teenager in a plastic raincoat walks south under the shop signs of African American businesses in the 500 block of Mobile Street, across the street from...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on November 12, 1981 and February 6, 1982 with Judge J. P. Coleman. Coleman was born on December 9, 1914 in Fentress, Mississippi. After attending the University of Mississippi, he was invited to work in...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on June 1, 2007 with Dr. Ethelyn Patricia ""Pat"" Joachim. Associate Provost for the University of Southern Mississippi Gulf Coast, Dr. Joachim describes the impact of Hurricane Katrina on her own home as well...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 24, 1981 with Mr. Dave L. Dunaway at his office in Greenville, Mississippi. Dunaway was born on January 2, 1927 near the Enon community in Walthall County, Mississippi. Following his discharge from the...
