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...
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...
cartoon by David Simpson; Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir stands in front of the counter of a diner called "Harry's Hash House" A man behind the counter wears a cook's hat and an apron. In his left hand he holds up a plate and says to...
This board statement from the 1913 Bulletin not only illustrates President Cook's meticulous bookkeeping but also reveals much about wages, prices and Dining Hall fare. Also found in Dearly Bought, Deeply Treasured on page 20; 7 x 5
Photograph of a party at the president's home hosted by Dr. and Mrs. R.C. Cook. Dr. Cook is seen on the right. The home was later renamed Ogletree Alumni House.
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.; Interview conducted on July 12, 1973 with Mr. Jerry Clower at his office in Yazoo City, Mississippi. Clower was born in 1926 at Route Four, Liberty, Mississippi. After graduating from high school, he joined the U.S. Navy. On...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on January 23, 1973 with Mr. William Dukes in his office in Gulfport, Mississippi. Dukes was born in the Sullivans' Hollow area near Raleigh, in Smith County, Mississippi on January 15, 1927. After his discharge...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on May 17, 1972 with Associate Justice Thomas Pickens Brady, of the Supreme Court of Mississippi in his chambers in Jackson, Mississippi. This is the second part of an interview conducted on March 4, 1972 with...
From the Belcher (Granville W. and Mary Caroline) Letters. Granville W. Belcher, a farmer from Martinsville, Henry County, Virginia, served in company F, 57th Virginia Infantry during the Civil War. Belcher writes to his wife, Mary Caroline, on...
