From the Ingram-Day Lumber Company Photographs Collection. Photograph of a child standing in a dense grove of long leaf pine trees. The original caption reads, "Long Leaf at Yarbo, Alabama".
From the Ingram-Day Lumber Company Photographs Collection. Photograph of a grove of red and white oak trees. The original caption reads, "A Red Oak and A White Oak at Woodbluff, Alabama."
From the Ingram-Day Lumber Company Photographs Collection. Photograph of a man standing in a grove of hickory trees that has obviously been thinned by logging operations. The original caption reads, "Some Hickory Trees at Woodbluff, Alabama."
From the Ingram-Day Lumber Company Photographs Collection. Photograph of a tall, straight yellow pine tree in a pine grove. The original caption reads, "An Unusual View of Very Large Long-Bodied Long Leaf at Yarbo, Alabama".
From the Ingram-Day Lumber Company Photographs Collection. Photograph of a woman and a child standing in a grove of large pine trees. The original caption reads, "Big 'Bill Stuff' at Loper, Alabama".
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of the Oak Grove, Mississippi, driver training car provided by McArthur Chevrolet.
From the Spight (Thomas) Letters. Letter from Virginia Barnett to Thomas Spight, dated 9 August 1865; written from near Cotton Grove, Tennessee. Virginia Barnett is the cousin and future wife of Spight, a member of the 34th Mississippi Infantry...
From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection.; Photograph of the Grove on campus at the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) in Oxford, September 1964. Taken from in front of the Lyceum, it shows the Grove and University Avenue in the background.
Oral history.; William G. (Bud) Gray was born in Beat Five, Oktibbeha County, Mississippi, on December 27, 1914. He attended a consolidated school in Crawford, Lowndes County, and high school in Artesia, where he played football. He went to...
Oral history.; Mrs. Varnell Homan was born on February 5, 1925, in Mooreville, Mississippi. In 1936, the year of Tupelo's worst tornado, she moved to Shannon, Mississippi. In 1942 she married Elkin P. Homan, and they were farmers. To make a...
Oral history.; Interview conducted in the spring of 1995 with Eberta Spinks (born 1914). In 1964, Mrs. Spinks became active in the civil rights movement. She housed civil rights workers in her home, integrated the restaurant of the Pinehurst Hotel...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on October 28, 1993 with Judge Michael L. Carr (born 1920). He moved to Mississippi when he received an appointment to serve as law clerk to Edwin R. Holmes, U.S. circuit judge for the Fifth Circuit Court of...
Running summary of various incidents that occurred during the Mississippi Freedom Project, Summer 1964. Organized chronologically, each entry gives the city and the incident. Includes instances of harassment, hostility, and violence against civil...
Oral history.; Barry Davis Jim, Sr., was born in Philadelphia Indian Hospital and grew up on the Pearl River Indian Reservation. He attended Pearl River Elementary Day School, which became Choctaw Central High School. Mr. Jim, a promising athlete,...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on September 2, 1976 with the Honorable Hervey O. Hicks at his home in Benton, Mississippi. Hicks was born on a farm near Benton, Mississippi, in Yazoo County in 1900. In 1931, he ran a successful campaign for...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on July 7, 1976 with Mr. P.A. Tims of Poplarville, Mississippi. Tims was born on October 20, 1890 in Ethel, Mississippi. In 1912, he enrolled in the first class to convene on the campus of the newly established...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on August 30, 1978 with Thomas Jefferson Tubb (born 1899). Mr. Tubb served as chairman of the Clay County Executive Committee for 47 years from 1928 to 1975 and during the Dixiecrat movement from 1950 to 1956....
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 August 23 and October 30, 1974 with Mr. Joe Reyer at his home in Poplarville, Mississippi. Reyer was born in 1893 in Pearl River County, Mississippi. He attended an agricultural high school, now Pearl...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on April 8 and 13, 1982 with Mr. E. Hammond Smith at his home in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Smith was born on December 17, 1894 in Bladen Springs, Alabama. His family moved to Hattiesburg, Mississippi and...
