Oral history.; Interview conducted on September 20, 1993 with Brad Dye concerning Mississippi Governor Paul Johnson Jr. Dye was born on December 20, 1933 in Charleston, Mississippi. In 1957, he received his bachelor of business administration...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on July 7, 1993 with Ken Fairly, a Mississippi law enforcement officer and journalist. Fairly was born on February 18, 1928 in Hazlehurst, Mississippi. Now retired, he had two careers: one as a journalist and...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 26, 1974 with Rabbi Julian B. Feibelman in his office at the Temple Sinai in New Orleans, Louisiana. Feibelman was born on March 23, 1897 in Jackson, Mississippi. He remained in Jackson for the first...
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.; Ms. Frances Elkin Joyner was born on November 23, 1909, in Tupelo, Mississippi. She graduated from Tupelo High School and then attended National Park Seminary in Forest Glen, Maryland. She married Ernest Love Joyner, Jr. just...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on June 5, 1999 with Sheila Michaels (born 1939). She attended the College of William and Mary, but was suspended for her political and racial opinions while on the school's newspaper board. In 1961, she joined...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 19, 1975 with Otho Monroe (born 1912). Mr. Monroe was superintendent of the Senatobia School District from 1949 until 1968, when he resigned in protest of school desegregation.
Oral history.; Norman discusses the creation and work of the Mississippi Humanities Council, the people responsible for its early development, and its programs concerning race relations and public education.
Oral history.; Interview conducted on October 7, 1976 with Dr. W. B. Thompson at his office at Mississippi College in Clinton, Mississippi. Thompson was born on November 5, 1920 in Columbus, Mississippi. After returning from service in World War...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on October 21, 1995 with Fred Winyard (born 1944), a civil rights activist recruited from Reed College in Oregon by the student nonviolent coordinating committee to work in Mississippi. He helped to organize the...
Oral history.; Borganelli discusses her teaching career and family, public education in Mississippi, the Mississippi Humanities Council, and race relations in Mississippi.
Oral history.; Mr. Terry Allen Broadus was born on October 11, 1938. Mr. Broadus enrolled at Perkinston Agricultural High School in 1952 and later received a baseball scholarship to attend Perkinston Junior College. In the late 1960s, Mr. Broadus...
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. Black-and-white photograph of Freedom School students and volunteers standing on the porch of Freedom House. Frank Cieciorka (wearing glasses) and Kathleen Dahl (far right, only partially visible)...
From the Paul B. Johnson Family Papers. Letter from Erle Johnston, Jr., to Frank D. Barber, dated 4 February 1964. Letter regarding an anti-communism institute for teachers.
From the McLoughlin Brothers Papers. Dust Jacket for Wings Over the World edited by Joseph Lewis French, introduction by Capt. Frank M. Hawks (Springfield: McLoughlin Bros., 1931) The Big aviation series, from the books series of the McLoughlin...
Photograph of Gov. Ross Barnett, flanked by Pres. McCain and Lt. Gov. Paul B. Johnson Jr., signing legislation making USM a university in 1962. Standing left to right: Alumni President Ralph McDaniels, Representative Stone D. Barefield, MSC...
