Oral history.; An interview conducted on June 22, 2007 with Martha Williams, a volunteer with the North Carolina Baptist Men. Miss Williams discusses her role with this organization dedicated to disaster relief and their efforts on the Mississippi...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on February 2, 1976 with James Cohen (born 1920). Since 1953, Mr. Cohen has been active in several civic associations in Hattiesburg and provides insight into the city's race relations and politics from the 1950s...
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.; Interview conducted on June 26, 1979 with Mr. William J. Simmons at his office in Jackson, Mississippi. Simmons was born in 1916 in Utica, Mississippi. He attended Millsaps College and Mississippi College, graduating from the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Robert "Bobby" Freeman sits at a desk holding a piece of paper that reads, "Give me a job." A saw is cutting through the floor around the desk, and the saw is labeled, "Abolish...
From the Adams County Police & Miscellaneous County Records. Financial statement documenting supplies purchased from H. Freeman & Sons, June- October 1836.
From the Don Freeman Papers.; Charcoal pencil illustration of the main character on pebbled paper from Don Freeman's Inspector Peckit (1972). 14.5" x 12.5"
From the Don Freeman Papers.; Early ink sketch of the main character and the various ways the author attempted to spell his name from Don Freeman's Inspector Peckit (1972). 8.5" x 11"
From the Don Freeman Papers.; Editorial cartoon of a pelican covered in oil created by Don Freeman for his book The Seal and the Slick (1974). 8.5" x 12"
From the Don Freeman Papers.; Storyboard page (p. 2) with orange color pencil illustrations of comedy and tragedy masks from Don Freeman's Forever Laughter (1970). 10.5" x 12"
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Freeman Lott (foreground) and an unidentified young African American male sitting on the floor at the Palmers Crossing Community Center in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, on August 4, 1964.
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on November 12, 1981 and February 6, 1982 with Judge J. P. Coleman. Coleman was born on December 9, 1914 in Fentress, Mississippi. After attending the University of Mississippi, he was invited to work in...
Oral history.; Discusses her father, Erle Johnston. Describes his relations with Ross Barnett and his work with the State Sovereignty Commission, which she denies was ever a spy organization.