From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Freedom School student Cynthia Perteet (left) and volunteer Beth More (right) are photographed together in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer, 1964. More was a teacher in the...
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...
Photograph of the 1971 Afro-American Cultural Society. Pictured left to right: 1st row: Dr. Robert D. Smith (advisor), Cynthia Barnes, Mattie Coleman (parliamentarian), John Price (president), Lettie Evans (secretary), Robert Williams, Samson Byrd;...
Oral history.; An interview with Sara Hamilton conducted on June 19, 2007. A volunteer project manager, Ms. Hamilton relocated from Chicago to Biloxi after Hurricane Katrina to continue working on Gulf Coast relief efforts.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on May 17, 2006 with Ronald J. Baker, a commercial fisherman in Biloxi, MS. Mr. Baker describes the hurricane's impact on his neighborhood, his personal business, and the shrimping industry in general.
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.; Two interviews conducted on April 3, 1995 and June 8, 1995 with Constance Baker (born 1912). Mrs. Baker has spent her life working for civil rights and in teaching. She was involved in the Head Start program from its inception and...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Volunteer Beth More supervises registration for the Freedom School hosted by Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer, 1964. In the background is Freedom...
