Oral history.; Interview conducted on June 7, 1999 with Terri Shaw (born 1940). Ms. Shaw graduated from Antioch College in Yellow springs, Ohio, in 1963, then went to work for the Buffalo (NY) Courier-Express before spending the summer in...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on June 26, 1979 with Mr. William J. Simmons at his office in Jackson, Mississippi. Simmons was born in 1916 in Utica, Mississippi. He attended Millsaps College and Mississippi College, graduating from the...
Oral history.; Discusses the prominence of the United Daughters of the Confederacy among Southern white women prior to World War II and the annual observances of Confederate holidays. Mentions other influential women's organizations in Mississippi.
Oral history.; Interview conducted with Dr. Michael Smith, a professor of criminal justice at the University of Southern Mississippi and a journalist during the 1960s. Smith was born in 1942 in Waterloo, Iowa. After his family's move to Jackson,...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on August 17, 1977 with Mrs. Betty Carter at her home in Greenville, Mississippi. Carter was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. She attended Newcomb College where she met her husband, Hodding Carter. Together they...
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...
Oral history.; Mr. Terry Allen Broadus was born on October 11, 1938. Mr. Broadus enrolled at Perkinston Agricultural High School in 1952 and later received a baseball scholarship to attend Perkinston Junior College. In the late 1960s, Mr. Broadus...
Transcript of a speech given to teachers during training for the Mississippi Freedom Project in 1963. Describes some of the problems faced by African Americans, especially children, in the 1960s. Includes personal experiences and observations of...
From the Zoya Zeman Freedom Summer Collection. Transcribed copy of the diary of Dean Hay, a Presbyterian minister from Nebraska, in which he details his trip to Hattiesburg, Mississippi, in February of 1964. The goal of this trip was to aid in the...
From the Zoya Zeman Freedom Summer Collection. Thirty-six pages (typewritten and handwritten) recounting Zoya Zeman's experiences in Mississippi from June 24, 1964, through September 6, 1964.
Materials in this collection were donated by William M. Colmer: First accession-1970. Additional information online at: http://www.lib.usm.edu/legacy/archives/m024.htm
From the Map Collection. Early map of southeastern North America showing the areas known then as Florida and Apalche. Shows areas from Texas in the west to Virginia; also shows part of Cuba.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A large full moon shines low on the horizon just off the coast of Florida. Hotels are in the background; the beach and a palm tree are in the foreground. The moon's face [Nikita...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. Fidel Castro is shown smoking a cigar labeled "Influence." An arm labeled "Brazil" uses scissors to cut the cigar in half at the same time that a thrown rock hits Castro on the back...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eddie Germano. Fidel Castro runs in panic with his pants on fire. The flames are labeled, "Chile's anti-Communist vote." The cartoon caption reads, "Where it hurts!"
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A U.S. Army general stands beside a large map of the Eastern United States and Cuba, and he is using a pointer to indicate the New York area. In his other hand, he holds a...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Leonid Brezhnev and Fidel Castro sit at a theater dressing room mirror. Brezhnev holds a pot of grease paint and an applicator, and his face is covered with the paint which...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A Soviet military officer is holding a pail, labeled "U.S. grain," for a horse to eat. The horse is hitched to a cart that holds a large box labeled "Ammunition" and a missile....
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Cuban leader Fidel Castro rides in a Jeep with a man labeled "Soviets" as they drive along a road leading into a jungle. The road is labeled "Central American inroads." The Jeep...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Leonid Brezhnev is behind a podium that has a hammer and sickle symbol on it, yelling "The U.S. is guilty of adventurism!" He is waving his arms, and around him are jagged...
