Materials in this collection were donated by William M. Colmer: First accession-1970. Additional information online at: http://www.lib.usm.edu/legacy/archives/m024.htm
Photograph of basketball coach Lee Floyd and player Wendell Ladner at a game. Also found in Chester M. Morgan's book, Dearly bought, deeply treasured, on page 126.
From the Hardy (William H. and Sallie J.) Papers. Letter from William Hardy to Sallie Hardy; written from Frederick, Maryland. Pages are missing from this letter.
Photograph of basketball guard Jimmie Floyd (No. 31) as he looks for an open teammate over the shoulders of a University of Southern Florida point guard. The Golden Eagles won the conference game 57-44. Featured in the 1997 Southerner yearbook on...
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...
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 de Grummond Children's Books collection. Published in Dundee, Scotland, and New York by Valentine & Sons, circa 1920. The covers depict the front and rear of the coach, with the top edge shaped. Donated with the Floyd C. and Stella T....
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. By Grace C. Floyd. Published in London and New York by Raphael Tuck & Sons, in 1895. Cover title. "Printed in Bavaria"--Cover. Donated with the Harer Collection. Part of the Father Tuck's...
Photograph of USM cheerleaders. Top: Brenda Talbert, Sally Floyd, Danny Mitchell, John Runnells. Bottom: Richard Peters, Nancy Meador, Jim Miller, Pam Stamps. This photo is featured in the 1970 Southerner yearbook on page 98.
cartoon by Jim Ivey; "State School Super' Floyd Christian" is a hen that sits on eggs that symbolize one billion dollars for the "Education Program." Governor Claude Kirk ponders over the situation in the background.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on October 22, 2005 with Wendy Frost. A registered nurse from Findlay, Ohio, Ms. Frost was a volunteer with the American Red Cross in South Mississippi following Hurricane Katrina.
Oral history.; Interview conducted on July 28, 1981 with Reverend Clinton Collier at the Methodist Church in Morton, Mississippi. Collier was born on August 24, 1910 [i.e. 1909] in rural Neshoba County. After completing the eighth grade, which...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on December 6, 2007 with Kathryn Anne ""Sally"" James. A lifelong Pass Christian resident, Ms. James describes the impact of Hurricane Katrina on her family and the city of Pass Christian, Mississippi.
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.; An interview conducted on June 18, 1980 with Charles Hudson Griffin (born 1926). Griffin served in the office of U. S. Congressman John Bell Williams until 1968 when he campaigned for the position himself. He served three terms...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 24, 1972 with Dr. William Penn Davis at his home in Jackson, Mississippi. Davis was born in Union County, Mississippi on August 5, 1903. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Mississippi College in...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 24, 1981 with Mr. Dave L. Dunaway at his office in Greenville, Mississippi. Dunaway was born on January 2, 1927 near the Enon community in Walthall County, Mississippi. Following his discharge from the...
