Oral history.; Ms. Phyllis Hawkins Harper was born October 6, 1933, in Mooreville, Mississippi. She graduated from Mooreville High School and went on to Itawamba Junior College and the University of Mississippi. During the Depression, Ms. Harper...
Oral history.; Percy Brooks was born on November 15, 1911 to a family of farmers. His grandfather had been freed from slavery during the Civil War, and afterwards sharecropped and rented land to save money to buy eighty acres in 1909. Mr. Brooks...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Hattiesburg residents Hettie Marsh and Geraldine Shaw listen to a traveling folk singer play his guitar in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer, 1964. Many folk singers visited the...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. A traveling folk singer is joined in song by Freedom School student Ronald Moore in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer, 1964. Many folk singers visited the various Freedom Summer...
A collection of ten 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...
Oral history.; Mr. Boyce Holleman was born on February 26, 1924, in Wiggins, Mississippi. Mr. Holleman enrolled at the Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College in the fall of 1940, but transferred to the University of Mississippi to study law. In...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on May 11, 1977 with the Honorable Horace Buckley at his home in Jackson, Mississippi. Buckley was born on July 14, 1941 in Jackson, Mississippi. He obtained his undergraduate degree from Mississippi Valley...
From the Mabel Esther Allan Papers .; Four snapshots of folk dancing in England by the English Folk Dance and Song Society from 1934-1939; 8 1/2 x 7 1/2
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Folk singer "Folksy" Joe (Joseph Decker) Harrison performs in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer 1964. African American children from Hattiesburg are seen in the background.
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...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on June 12, 2008 with Rev. S.V. and Virginia Adolph of Gulfport, MS. Mr. Adolph is a pastor at First Missionary Baptist Church in Gulfport and they discuss the church's role in recovery after Hurricane Katrina.
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on April 14, 1972 and January 25, 1973 with Mississippi civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977). Hamer was a leading figure in the MFDP. She is best known for her 1964 national television...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on October 21, 1999 with Dr. Sandra Adickes (born 1933). In 1963, Dr. Adickes taught African-Americans in freedom school efforts in Prince Edward County, Virginia. In 1964, she was recruited to teach in...
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; Mrs. Ruth Evans Story was born on October 20, 1943, in Gulfport, Mississippi. She graduated from high school and attended Dillard University in New Orleans. On October 18, 1962, Ms. Ruth Evans married Almer L. Story in Gulfport....
Oral history.; Mr. Roberts Wilson Jr. was born July 6, 1941, in Rosedale, Mississippi. After attending both Vanderbilt University and the University of Mississippi, he went to Washington. D.C., during the mid 1960s where he worked in the office of...
Oral history.; Page discusses his family, his experiences as a black physician, the civil rights movement, his work in state politics, and the Mississippi Humanities Council.
From the Jan Pienkowski Papers.; Original ink illustration on tracing paper (p. 143) from Jan Pienkowski's The Amber Mountain and Other Folk Stories (1976). 23" x 34"
From the Jan Pienkowski Papers.; Original ink illustration on tracing paper (p. 115) for Jan Pienkowski's The Amber Mountain and Other Folk Stories (1976). 23" x 33"
