From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. A girl of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, possibly a Freedom School student, claps her hands and sings in Hattiesburg during Freedom Summer, 1964. Many folk singers visited the various Freedom Summer...
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...
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...
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.
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. Folk singer "Folksy" Joe Harrison entertains a group of African American children with his guitar in Hattiesburg, Mississippi during Freedom Summer on July 18, 1964.
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Folksinger "Folksy" Joe (Joseph Decker) Harrison gives a guitar lesson to Freedom School student Curtis Ducksworth, right, in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer, 1964.
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Folksinger "Folksy" Joe (Joseph Decker) Harrison gives a guitar lesson to Freedom School student Curtis Ducksworth while Charles Perry looks on in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Folksinger "Folksy" Joe (Joseph Decker) Harrison gives a guitar lesson to a Freedom School student during Freedom Summer in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, 1964.
Oral history.; Interview conducted on May 18, 1972 with Ms. Ruby Magee at College Hall at the University of Southern Mississippi. Magee was born in 1940 in Tylertown, Mississippi. In 1962, she received a BA in history and political science from...
From the Jan Pienkowski Papers.; Original ink illustration (p. 51) by Jan Pienkowski from Jim Along, Josie: A Collection of Folk Songs and Singing Games for Children (1970). 16.5" x 22"
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Folksinger Julius Lester plays the guitar while Freedom School students sit around him outside of Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer, 1964. Lester was...
From the Belcher (Granville W. and Mary Caroline) Letters. Granville W. Belcher, a farmer from Martinsville, Henry County, Virginia, served in company F, 57th Virginia Infantry during the Civil War. Belcher writes to his wife, Mary Caroline, on...
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. Postcard mailed to Kathleen Dahl on April 22, 1965; image taken by Edwin Friend at Highlander Folk School in Monteagle, TN during Labor Day weekend 1957, features Martin Luther King, Jr., Abner W....
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.; Interview conducted on October 25, 1976 with Bert Fells, a Hattiesburg native. Mr. Fells served in the Air Force from 1966 to 1969, including a tour in Vietnam. In 1972, he returned to Mississippi to live and became director of...
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.; Discusses Clarence Magee's family, his responsibilities on the farm, and first memories of racism. Talks about the African American schools around Columbia, Mississippi. Describes his attempts to register to vote in Hattiesburg and...
