Oral history.; An interview conducted on February 21, 2007 with Tom Higgins, a retired shipyard manager and author of Sunshine on my Shoulders, a first-person narration of life after Hurricane Katrina. He describes his experience in Pascagoula,...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on June 16, 2008 with Rod Dickson-Rishel, pastor of the Mississippi City United Methodist Church. Reverend Dickson-Rishel discusses his experiences during and after Hurricane Katrina.
From the Kate Greenaway Papers. Autograph letter signed. 4 pp. on 1 folded leaf. (15.5 x 10 cm.) With envelope. To Lady Maria [Ponsonby] from Kate Greenaway at Hampstead, dated 26 July 1897.
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...
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...
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...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on February 21, 1980 with the Honorable George M. Yarbrough at his home. Yarbrough was born on August 15, 1916 at Red Banks, Mississippi. Yarbrough served in the U.S. Army during World War II, achieving the rank...
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...
Finding aid for manuscript collection. ; This collection consists of Jon Davies' application for participation in the Mississippi Summer Project of 1964 and an evaluation of Dr. Davies written by Dot Zellner. For the full finding aid, see...
From the Adams (Victoria Gray) Papers. Discusses the history and mission of the Citizenship Education Program, an organization of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), founded in South Carolina by Septima P. Clark and Esau...
From the Adams (Victoria Gray) Papers. Report in the form of a memo, titled "Mississippi Report of Citizenship Education Program" written by Victoria Jackson Gray (Adams). Describes the activities of and challenges faced by the Citizenship...
From the Adams (Victoria Gray) Papers. Report of the Deep South Project to the Southern Conference Educational Fund (SCEF) Board, written by Dorothy "Dottie " Zellner. Discusses the progress made by the Deep South Project, which is based in...
From the Hamlett (Ed) White Folks Project Collection. The letter, presumably from Dottie (Dorothy) Zellner to Ed Hamlett, is typed on Boston Friends of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). It contains comments on the continued...
From the Hamlett (Ed) White Folks Project Collection. The letter, presumably written by Dottie (Dorothy) Zellner to Anne Braden and Ed Hamlett, is typed on Boston Friends of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee letterhead. Braden and...
From the Kate Greenaway Papers. Autograph letter signed. 4 pp. on 1 folded leaf. (15 x 10 cm.) To Lady Dorothy from Kate Greenaway at Hampstead, dated 28 December 1900.
From the McLoughlin Brothers Papers. A Letter from Dorothy Alexander to McLoughlin Brothers Inc. with manuscript, criticism, and folder, from the correspondence series of the McLoughlin Brother Papers. The McLoughlin Brothers Papers contain...
From the McLoughlin Brothers Papers. A Letter from McLoughlin Brothers Inc. to Dorothy Alexander with corresponding shipping orders, from the correspondence series of the McLoughlin Brother Papers. The McLoughlin Brothers Papers contain...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Freedom School student Dorothy Duncan writes during a Freedom School class in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer, 1964.
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Five African American girls from Hattiesburg, Mississippi, pose for the camera in front of True Light Baptist Church during Freedom Summer, 1964. They are (from left to right) Otis Ruth Travis,...
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
