Oral history.; An interview conducted on March 19, 2008 with Vincent Creel. An employee of the City of Biloxi, Mr. Creel discussesthe city's preparation, response and recovery from Hurricane Katrina.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on August 2, 2007 and October 9, 2007 with Edmond Boudreaux, Jr., a longtime Mississippi Gulf Coast resident and active local historian of the region. Mr. Boudreaux discusses the impact of Hurricane Katrina on...
An interview conducted on 06-08-1999 with Umoja Kwanguvu (born1925). Born William Jones, Umoja Kwanguvu actively protested and defied segregation while in the military, conducted protest activities against the prevailing Jim Crow attitudes and laws...
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 ten 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 August 21, 1997 with Rims Barber (born 1936). In 1964, he participated in Mississippi Freedom Summer with the National Council of Churches and returned to Mississippi with the Delta Ministry in 1965 to work in...
Oral history.; Mr. Augustus (Gus) Ashby Sr. was born in 1924, in Washington, D.C. and moved to Tupelo where he became active in the local church. After high school, he attended college in Holly Springs and Okolona, Mississippi. He was a member 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...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on June 1, 2007 with Dr. Ethelyn Patricia ""Pat"" Joachim. Associate Provost for the University of Southern Mississippi Gulf Coast, Dr. Joachim describes the impact of Hurricane Katrina on her own home as well...
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.; Interview conducted on January 26, 1993 with Pete Johnson, nephew of Paul B. Johnson Jr., at his home in Madison, Mississippi. Pete Johnson was born on May 12, 1948 in Alexandria, Louisiana. He received his B.S. degree in business...
Oral history.; Mr. King T. Evans was born on March 19, 1913 near Uniontown, Alabama, in Perry County. In 1925, Mr. Evans moved to Mississippi with his parents. His father was a mechanic and farmer. For a brief period, Mr. Evans attended the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Riedell. A cannon labeled "Univ. [University] of Iowa" is in position to be fired. A man with a goatee and wearing a college mortarboard labeled [Donald] "Barnett" is in the barrel of the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Riedell. A man labeled "Donald L. Barnett" wears a mortar board on his head and holds a rifle. The end of the rifle is damaged, and it smokes with the words, "Withholding student marks."...
From the Donald Elmer Lawson Papers.; A photograph of Don Lawson at the first USM Book Festival in 1968. Also pictured are: Adelaide Holl, Berthe Amoss, Jane de Grummond, Alice Cooper Bailey, and Lena Y. de Grummond; 8 x 10
From the Donald Elmer Lawson Papers.; Four 4''x4" photographs of Don Lawson on Gibraltar, October 1967. The photos include the Rock of Gibraltar and some Barbary apes, and were used to in Lawson's research of The Lion and the Rock; 8 1/2 x 9 1/2
From the Donald Elmer Lawson Papers.; Letter received from Jeannette Rankin, 3 January 1970, concerning an article she was writing for Lawson's Ten Fighters for Peace; 8 1/2 x 11
From the Donald Elmer Lawson Papers.; Letter received from Maury Solomon, senior editor at Franklin Watts Books, 22 October 1980, concerning Don Lawson's The Picture Life of Ronald Reagan; 8 1/2 x 11
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs; Photograph of a formal portrait of Dr. J. D. Donald, Mayor of Hattiesburg from 1907-1911. Dr. Donald was one of Hattiesburg's early physicians. This version from In Hattiesburg: A Pictorial History, page...
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs; Photograph of two workers inside the Komp Manufacturing Company, which manufactured parts for lumber mills in 1924. The workers are master machinist, G. H. McElhaney, and a Mr. Donald.
