Oral history.; Mr. Sank Powe was born in the Delta in Elizabeth, Mississippi, on April 20, 1942. Growing up, Mr. Powe often worked in the cotton fields for meager wages. Mr. Powe attended Mound Bayou High School, Jackson State University and Delta...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on November 16, 1977 with George Rogers (born 1927). Mr. Rogers, a Rhodes Scholar, was elected to the Mississippi House of Representatives, where he served for more than twenty years. He became well known for his...
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 April 2, 1972 with Mr. R. Jess Brown in Jackson, Mississippi. Brown was born in Coffeeville, Kansas, on September 2, 1912, and was raised in Oklahoma. He received a Bachelor of Science degree from Illinois...
Oral history.; Four interviews conducted on October 1, 2, and 23 of 1975, and July 1, 1976 with Mr. Hugh Clegg at his home in Anguilla, Mississippi. Clegg was born on July 17, 1898 in Mathiston, Mississippi. Clegg graduated from Millsaps...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on August 26, 1975 with Earl W. Banks, 1905-1986. He enrolled at Alcorn University in Lorman, Mississippi, for one year, then transferred to Jackson State University where he completed high school. He continued...
Oral history.; Father Peter Oliver Quinn was born on April 11, 1937, in Ireland. He was ordained when he was twenty-five years old in Ireland, and he came to Mississippi in September, 1962. Father Quinn's first assignment was at Sacred Heart...
From the Mabel Esther Allan Papers .; Photograph of Mabel Esther Allan in the Women's Land Army in 1940. The photo was taken at Brook Farm, Plumbley, Cheshire England, and shows Allan leading a mule and cart full of hay; 4 x 6
From the Mabel Esther Allan Papers .; Four snapshots of folk dancing in England by the English Folk Dance and Song Society from 1934-1939; 8 1/2 x 7 1/2
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. A new version, to which is added Little Jane and her mother. Published in Boston by Wm. J. Reynolds and Company, in 1848. Page numbering is inconsistent. Three parts issued in one, each with...
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Printed and sold by W. Walker in Otley, England, between 1860 and 1880. Variant title on cover: Glass slipper. "Price one penny"--Cover.
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Published in New York by McLoughlin Bros., Inc., in 1895. Cover title. Shaped book, top and fore edges cut to outline Robin Hood's head and horn on front cover. P. [1] and [2] of cover included...
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Published in New York by McLoughlin Bros., Inc., 1889. Title, imprint, and series statements from cover. Part of the Robin Hood series.
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Published in New York by McLoughlin Bros., Inc., in 1889. Title, imprint, and series statements from cover. P. [2] and [3] of cover included in pagination. Part of the Wonder-story series.
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Written by Madame d'Aulnoy. Embellished with curious cuts. Printed at Mozley and Co's Lilliputian Book-Manufactory in Gainsbrough, England in 1793. First published by Francis Newbery in 1773. ...
From the Kate Greenaway Papers. Autograph letter signed. 4 pp. on 1 folded leaf. (15 x 10 cm.) To Mary from Kate Greenaway from Woodend Bournemontts dated 27 September 1894. On mourning stationery.
Carbon copy of a 1 1/2-page typed letter, dated July 9, [1964], from Nancy Ellin to an anonymous person(s). The document describes Freedom Schools (curriculum, enrollment, etc.) and the opinions of teachers and students. It also details the local...
From the Spight (Thomas) Letters. Letter from Thomas Spight to Virginia Barnett, dated 3 January 1861, written from Bowling Green, Kentucky. Spight, a member of the 34th Mississippi Infantry during the Civil War, writes to his cousin and future...
Transcript of a speech given to teachers during training for the Mississippi Freedom Project in 1963. Describes some of the problems faced by African Americans, especially children, in the 1960s. Includes personal experiences and observations of...
Copy of an undated, typewritten newsletter from Rabbi Charles and Anna Mantinband addressed to family. In the first three pages, Anna Mantinband discusses their travels to New York state and the surrounding area, including details of their...
