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
From the Leonard Everett Fisher Papers. Christmas card designed by Leonard Everett Fisher for the de Grummond Collection at the University of Southern Mississippi Libraries.
From the Leonard Everett Fisher Papers. Christmas card designed by Leonard Everett Fisher for the de Grummond Collection at the University of Southern Mississippi Libraries.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Vic Runtz. The scene is an artist's studio. A painting of the U.S. Capitol dome is on the easel and is labeled, "The Capitol scene." The drape is hanging from one edge of the painting. In the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eddie Germano. Richard Nixon and a large grouip of men, including Nelson Rockefeller, Ronald Reagan, and George Romney, have been fighting. Each has been wounded, but Nixon is the winner. The...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Local African-American residents sing at the fish fry given for the volunteers by local civil rights leader Vernon Dahmer on his property in the Kelly Settlement, to the north of Hattiesburg,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Ken Alexander. An extraterrestrial being stands before a smiling woman sitting at a desk, which is labeled "Democratic headquarters." On the wall behind the woman are eight large posters...
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.; Two interviews conducted on November 12, 1981 and February 6, 1982 with Judge J. P. Coleman. Coleman was born on December 9, 1914 in Fentress, Mississippi. After attending the University of Mississippi, he was invited to work in...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on June 18, 1980 with Charles Hudson Griffin (born 1926). Griffin served in the office of U. S. Congressman John Bell Williams until 1968 when he campaigned for the position himself. He served three terms...
Oral history.; Mrs. Lorita Nelson Jones was born on July 19, 1909, in Biloxi, Mississippi. Her mother's family were originally from New Orleans, Louisiana, of Creole heritage; her grandmother, Olivia Lewis, spoke only in French. Her father Lamar...
Oral history.; Mr. Billy Joe McCain, Sr., was born in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1936. When he was four years old, his parents divorced, and he returned with his mother to her parents' home in Grenada, Mississippi. He attended segregated schools,...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on June 18, 1992 and March 9, 1993 with Mr. C.B. "Buddie" Newman at his home in Valley Park, Mississippi. Newman was born on May 8, 1921 in Valley Park, Mississippi. In 1942, he left his job with the Southern...
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...
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...
A handwritten list of Freedom Summer volunteers and staff in Hattiesburg written by Joe Ellin. The list gives the volunteers' religion, race, approximate age, and their work site. There are tally marks for the statistics on the lower right corner....
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs; Photograph of Mr. Monroe Lott and Mr. Everett Lott with a large virgin pine tree cut in Lamar County for J. J. Newman Lumber Company. A log from it won a steam locomotive as a prize at the 1904...
