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 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 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 July 30, 1980 with Mr. Erle Johnston at his home in Forest, Mississippi. Johnston was born on October 10, 1917 in Garyville, Louisiana. In 1941, he moved Forest, Mississippi and bought the fledgling newspaper,...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on May 1, 1972 with Dr. Aaron Henry in his drugstore in Clarksdale, Mississippi. Henry was born on July 2, 1922 in Clarksdale, Mississippi. After serving in World War II, he went to Xavier College (now Xavier...
Oral history.; Kathleen (Kat) Bergeron was born on April 23, 1950. She attended Gulfport East High School and the W. Page Pitt School of Journalism at Marshal University in Huntington, West Virginia. From 1995 to 1996, Ms. Bergeron attended...
From the Map Collection. Map showing predominant types of trees, prepared by the Forest Survey Staff of the Southern Forest Experiment Station of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service. Includes range and section lines.
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Accounts and evaluation of activities during the residential freedom school experiment, a two-part program which took place in Chicago, Illinois, and Cordele, Georgia.
From the United States Forest Service, Harrison Experimental Forest Station Collection. Photograph of a native cow on McNeill Experiment Forest. Second-growth longleaf pine with understory of Andropogon Scoparius, A. tener, Aristidas, and Panicums.
From the United States Forest Service, Harrison Experimental Forest Station Collection. Photograph of a small office at the Southern Forest Experiment Station in New Orleans, Louisiana.
From the United States Forest Service, Harrison Experimental Forest Station Collection. Photograph of Senator John Stennis speaking at the dedication of the Southern Forest Experiment Station.
From the United States Forest Service, Harrison Experimental Forest Station Collection. Photograph of the dedication ceremony of the Southern Forest Experiment Station.
From the United States Forest Service, Harrison Experimental Forest Station Collection. Photograph of the dedication ceremony of the Southern Forest Experiment Station.
From the United States Forest Service, Harrison Experimental Forest Station Collection. Photograph of the dedication ceremony of the Southern Forest Experiment Station.
From the United States Forest Service, Harrison Experimental Forest Station Collection. Photograph of the opening of the Southern Forest Experiment Station in Gulfport. Pictured left to right, A.F. Verral, Senator John Stennis, B.W. Henry, R.E....
From the United States Forest Service, Harrison Experimental Forest Station Collection. Photograph of the Southern Forest Experiment Station Lab building and parking lot.
From the United States Forest Service, Harrison Experimental Forest Station Collection. Photograph of the Southern Forest Experiment Station Lab building and sign.
Oral history.; Interview conducted on October 21, 1996 with Mr. Charles Cobb (born 1943) in Washington, D.C. In the summer of 1962, he was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) field secretary in Ruleville, Mississippi, where he and...
A two-page photocopied and typed letter from Nancy and Joe Ellin to "Mom and Dad" [Joe's parents] dated July 3, [1964]. The letter describes preparations for the Freedom Schools and the compiling of a "Freedom Booklet." The Ellins talk of the area...
