Oral history.; The family of Dr. Isaac Thomas moved to Hattiesburg from Beaumont, Perry County, Mississippi, in 1935. He entered Eureka High School that year, graduating in 1938, one of a class of thirty three. Dr. Thomas stresses how important...
Oral history.; Mrs. Marie Washington Kent was born in Natchez, Mississippi. She moved to Hattiesburg in 1911. She attended the Eureka School. After graduating in 1923, Ms. Washington studied at Strait College in New Orleans, Louisiana, for two...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. An elderly man with a beard looks out from the clouds and pours water from a watering can onto the landscape. He wears a top hat with a weather vane on top. In the background of...
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 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...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A woman wearing a sunbonnet and apron over her clothing is labeled, "Quite contrary." She is patting sweat from her forehead and carrying a water can as she walks out of the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Knudsen. A figure is pictured from the waist down, dressed in cassock and boots, and marked with hammer and sickle. Labeled "Russia," the figure is stomping on a flower that is labeled...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on April 1, 1993 and January 6, 1995 with Ariel Barnes (born 1917). Mrs. Barnes was born in Forest, Mississippi, but moved to Hattiesburg shortly after. She attended Alcorn University, where she earned a...
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.; Four interviews conducted on June 11, September 26, October 10, and November 21, 1985 with Ms. Ruby Magee in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Magee was born on August 12, 1940 in Tylertown, Mississippi. In 1962, she received a BA in...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by John Stampone. Hubert Humphrey offers a giant flower with "HHH" in the center of the petals toward a Roman centurion (Eugene McCarthy) whose breastplate is labeled "McCarthy's non-support." The...
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.; Viola Brown Sanders was born in Sidon, Mississippi, on February 21, 1921. After Miss Sanders finished her education, she taught school for two years in Glen Allan, Mississippi. In 1943, Miss Sanders joined the United States Navy...
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...
From the Kate Greenaway Papers. Autograph letter signed. 4 pp. on 1 folded leaf (15 x 10 cm.) To Mrs. [Edmund] Evans from Kate Greenaway dated Tuesday.
Oral history.; Born on November 6, 1916, in Quito, Mississippi, Mrs. Martha Sisson Miller was the daughter of John William Sisson and Myrlea Johnson Sisson. She attended elementary and high school at Indianola City School. She attended Sunflower...
From the University of Southern Mississippi Art Museum collection. Oil on board painting of a vase with flowers around it, in dark colors, by Charles Hillman.
Oral history.; Mr. Ray William (Buck) Wells was born August 21, 1916, on a dairy farm three-fourths of a mile southwest of Mississippi Normal College (now The University of Southern Mississippi). Sometime around 1920 or 1921 he moved into...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Ed Valtman. A well dressed elephant (drawn as a man) with thick black eyebrows stands, hands in pockets and smoking a cigar, before Nelson Rockefeller, who is sitting in a chair holding a...
