Oral history.; Mr. Spain was born in 1927 in Ohio and moved with his family to Mississippi in 1930. While still a high school student, he helped build and operate a local AM radio station. Having graduated with honors from Mississippi State...
Oral history.; Mrs. Leila Lyle Wilkinson Underhill was born in Shelby, Mississippi, on July 29, 1919. She grew up during the Great Depression and remembers the flood of 1927. During World War II, Mrs. Underhill's brother was killed. Mrs....
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. Black-and-white photograph of Frank Cieciorka standing by two unidentified policemen during an arrest for defacing the Marshall County jail in Holly Springs, Mississippi.
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. Black-and-white photograph of civil rights worker Frank Cieciorka standing on the street in Holly Springs, Mississippi. Cieciorka can be seen on the far right side of the photograph, looking at...
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. Black-and-white photograph of the arrest of Frank Cieciorka in Holly Springs for defacing the Marshall County jail. Note the sign hung around Cieciorka's neck.
Photograph from the Johnston (Erle E., Jr.) Papers; Black-and-white photograph of Frank Smith, taken in the 1950s. Smith served as Congressman from Mississippi in the 1950s, taking a moderate stance on civil rights issues.
From the Political Campaign Collection. Political flyer from Frank H. Harper, member of the Mississippi State Senate from Hattiesburg outlining his plan for relieving the Great Depression.
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. Bench warrant signed by R.E. Greene for the arrest of Frank Cieciorka, who was charged with defacing the Marshall County jail. Cieciorka was actively involved in other aspects of Freedom Summer:...
From the University of Southern Mississippi Art Museum collection. Acrylic on canvas painting, dark red background with linear designs in green, by Steve Frank.
From the University of Southern Mississippi Art Museum collection. Acrylic on canvas painting, bright blue background with green design that looks like a capital 'N', by Steve Frank.
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...
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...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on June 25, 2007 with Lieutenant General John C. ""Clark"" Griffith. General Griffith describes his experiences during and after Hurricane Katrina, as well as his involvement in commissions planning for 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.; Mr. John Sherman Crubaugh was born April 12, 1913. During his college years at Mississippi State, from 1931, he worked to pay for his education. After he received a B.S. degree and an M.Ed. degree from Mississippi State University,...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on February 22, 2007 with Anne Petty, a retired schoolteacher, who describes hearing about Hurricane Katrina from her hospital bed in Washington and learning of its damage to her home in Pascagoula.
