Oral history.; Interview conducted on June 26, 1979 with Mr. William J. Simmons at his office in Jackson, Mississippi. Simmons was born in 1916 in Utica, Mississippi. He attended Millsaps College and Mississippi College, graduating from the...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on August 20, 1997 and August 28, 1997 with Peter H. Stewart (born 1934). He began teaching school in Edwards, Mississippi, in the fall of 1961. In August 1969, he worked for Friends of Children, a Head Start...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 23, 1977 with Mr. Jimmy Swan. Swan was born in Cullman County, Alabama. He ran away from home when he was thirteen or fourteen and ended up in Wayne County, Mississippi. Swan sang in nightclubs and...
Oral history.; Three interviews conducted on October 23, 29, and 30, 1996 with Hollis Watkins (born 1941), the twelfth child of sharecroppers. Mr. Watkins was jailed for participating in the Woolsworth's lunch counter sit-in in McComb and a...
Oral history.; Dr. John Paul Quon was born June 11, 1942, in Moorhead, Mississippi. His parents emigrated from China to Mississippi to participate in a family-owned grocery store. Dr. Quon was in the first public school class in Mississippi that...
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 July 12, 1973 with Mr. Jerry Clower at his office in Yazoo City, Mississippi. Clower was born in 1926 at Route Four, Liberty, Mississippi. After graduating from high school, he joined the U.S. Navy. On...
Guestbook 2 of 2 for the “Passing the Torch: Documenting the 21st Century Ku Klux Klan” exhibit. The exhibit featured photographs by Southern Miss Alum, James Edward Bates and was held in Cook Library.
Guestbook 1 of 2 for the “Passing the Torch: Documenting the 21st Century Ku Klux Klan” exhibit. The exhibit featured photographs by Southern Miss Alum, James Edward Bates and was held in Cook Library.
From the Zwerling (Matthew) Freedom Summer Collection. Program for a Town Hall meeting held at New York University on August 20, 1964. The meeting,"Hearing on Mississippi," featured panelists listening to another group testify on their...
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs; Photograph featuring artist's drawings of five early Hattiesburg Schools, circa 1908. Featured are Court Street, Fourth Ward, Hardy Street, Main Street and Third Ward Schools.
