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
Oral history.; Reverend F.T. (Ted) Shepherd was born July 10, 1924, in Greenville, Mississippi. In 1942, he was graduated from Greenville High School. During World War II he served in the armed forces. He graduated from Delta State Teachers...
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...
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...
From the Sullivan-Kilrain Fight Collection. Photocopy of a photograph of John L. Sullivan. From John L. Sullivan and His America, by Michael T. Isenberg. Caption reads, "John Wood's photograph of Sullivan, probably the most popular picture ever...
Customs form for the Confederate States of America recording the shipment of whiskey via the Mississippi Central Railroad to J. P. Atkinson at Holly Springs, Mississippi, dated 13 May 1861.
Handwritten diary kept by Didamie Emaline Hicks Fike for September 1843. The diary provides insight into daily life in a rural community in old Spartenburg County, South Carolina, and reveals the lifestyle of subsistence farmers which was hard and...
From the Sullivan-Kilrain Fight Collection. Photocopy of a handwritten letter from John Sullivan to Jake Kilrain, dated 7 December 1888. Sullivan challenges Kilrain to a fight.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Al Hirt stands in the street outside the window of a bar or restaurant, and he is playing his trumpet. A pianist is sitting at a piano inside and sticks his fingers in his ears...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man is holding a huge trophy cup labeled, "Sugar Bowl Week." From the top of it can be seen a football labeled, "Sugar Bowl Classic" and several papers that read,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man in colonial clothing and a Mardi Gras mask has a thermometer in his mouth. The thermometer is labeled, "Fever pitch," and the end has exploted. The words, "Mardi Gras '67"...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man dressed in colonial clothing is labeled, "America's most interesting city." He is smiling and holding five large playing cards in his hand, one of which is labeled,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Two right arms extend into the cartoon space from the right, each holding a hand magnifier. One is labeled, "Police," and the other is labeled, "IRS." In the background of the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. The cartoon shows a storefront building with a large glass show window topped by an awning that reads, "Times-Picayune Doll and Toy Fund." The glass window has the letters,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man in colonial dress labeled, "N.O." looks into a large kaleidoscope labeled, "250th anniversary." Above the kaleidoscope are the words, "Carnival balls...Carnival...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. On a large poster (side of a building?) are two theatre masks. Instead of the smiling face of comedy and crying face of tragedy, there are two crying faces. A man in colonial...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man dressed in old world German costume is labeled "Berlin Volkfest." He holds a huge beer stein. Above him are the words, "German contributions to the civic, social and...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man who is labeled, "Warmth of compassion for others" on the arm of his coat also wears a large round pin on his coat front with a check mark and the words, "fair share...
