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...
Oral history.; Gwin E. Douglas was born on November 9, 1923, in State Line, Mississippi. Douglas graduated from Leakesville High School in 1942 and worked briefly with his father in the naval store and the timber businesses until he was drafted...
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...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on December 14, 1972 with Mr. Percy Greene at his office in Jackson, Mississippi. Greene was born on September 7, 1897 in Jackson, Mississippi and died on April 16, 1977. He was very active in the civil rights...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on February 13, 1978 with Mr. M.W. Hamilton in Petal, Mississippi. Hamilton was born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi in 1909 and lived in the area until his death in 1990. He worked as a mechanic, electrician and...
Oral history.; Three interviews conducted on August 8 and 10, 1976 and October 19, 1976 with Jesse Boyce Holleman (born 1924). He served in the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1947 until 1953. At that time, he became district attorney for...
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.; Maurice Guyton Turner was born on April 29, 1912, in Greene County, Mississippi. He graduated from Greene County Agriculture High School in 1932. After staying out of school for a year he worked in his brother's grocery store. He...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on October 22, 1996 with Mrs. Josephine Clemons Bell (born 1909). Her teaching career in elementary education in the public school of Natchez-Adams County spans twenty-nine and a half years. After retiring in...
From the McLoughlin Brothers Papers. Book dummy with complete cover and blank pages of The Household Drawing and Painting Book (New York: McLoughlin Bros., 1903) from the books series of the McLoughlin Brother Papers. The McLoughlin Brothers Papers...
From the McLoughlin Brothers Papers. Book Dummy for cover and 14 pages of text with note "5000 copies printed Sept. 1924 - 1st ed. Order #1924, Job #1934 6 sheets, 18 sig 42x51 - 170- Hibulk to a book" from Knickers and Bobs: an Unusual Collection...
From the Margret and Hans Augusto Rey Papers.; Crayon illustration w/handwritten text (and overlay) sequence (p. 1) from bound dummy of H.A. Rey's unpublished book, Brazilian Fairy Tales (As Lendas Do Jaboty), written in English and Portuguese,...
From the Margret and Hans Augusto Rey Papers.; Watercolor illustration (p. 2) from book dummy for H.A. Rey's unpublished book O Vegitariano Covertido [ca. 1925-1935]. 12.5" x 9.5"
From the Margret and Hans Augusto Rey Papers.; Watercolor cover illustration for book dummy from H.A. Rey's unpublished German language book, Der Schlangentoter [ca. 1930-1940]. 8.5" x 12"
From the McLoughlin Brothers Papers. Production dummy (pasted-up cover and 8 pp. of printed text) of Jack and the Beanstalk #216 [publication status unknown] from the books series of the McLoughlin Brother Papers. The McLoughlin Brothers Papers...
From the Margret and Hans Augusto Rey Papers.; Crayon illustration proof with handwritten text (p. 7) from bound dummy of "How the Tortoise Outwits the Jaguar," which appears in H.A. Rey's unpublished book, Indian Tortoise Stories, volume 2 [ca....
From the Margret and Hans Augusto Rey Papers.; Color illustration from book dummy for H.A. Rey's unpublished book, The Onion Lover [ca. 1935-1940]. 8.5" x 12"
