A collection of six 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...
Oral history.; Mrs. Janelle McComb was born in Lauderdale County, and moved to Tupelo, Mississippi, when two weeks old. As a child, Mrs. McComb enjoyed the annual Mississippi / Alabama Fair and Dairy Show. She survived the Tupelo tornado in her...
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....
Oral history.; Mrs. Sarah Harris Ruffin was born on April 15, 1914. Her parents came to Hattiesburg in the early 1900s. When young, Mrs. Ruffin did domestic and warehouse work. In 1949, she began working at the Brooklyn Jewish Hospital as a nurse's...
Oral history.; The Honorable Frank D. Barber was born on April 2, 1929, in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Barber attended the University of Mississippi for a year before volunteering for the U.S. Army which involved National Guard work in the U.S. and...
From the Hardy (William H. and Sallie J.) Papers. Martha Albritton, Mrs. Martha Tatum, and D.W. Tatum at the Hardy Letters Presentation in McCain Library.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of the inaugural parade for Mayor D.W. Holmes and the city commissioners.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of the inaugural parade for Mayor D.W. Holmes and the city commissioners.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of the inaugural parade for Mayor D.W. Holmes and the city commissioners.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of the inaugural parade for Mayor D.W. Holmes and the city commissioners.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of the inaugural parade for Mayor D.W. Holmes and the city commissioners.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of the inaugural parade for Mayor D.W. Holmes and the city commissioners.
