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.; Mrs. Clara Griffin Watson was born in Biloxi, Mississippi, on October 15, 1933. During the 1960s, Mrs. Watson helped the COFO workers in Mississippi, marched on the Federal Building, and housed some of the civil rights activists in...
From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection.; Photograph of the Fifth St. Grocery in Clarksdale, Mississippi, September 1964. A large Falstaff sign is hanging in front of the store.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of the Burge's Sandwich Shop sign, featuring the menu and and ad for Falstaff beer. Burge's Sandwich Shop was located on Main Street.