Oral history.; Four interviews conducted on June 11, September 26, October 10, and November 21, 1985 with Ms. Ruby Magee in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Magee was born on August 12, 1940 in Tylertown, Mississippi. In 1962, she received a BA in...
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 July 2, 1974 with Mrs. Ellie J. Dahmer at her home in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Dahmer was born in Jasper County, Mississippi in 1925. After completing high school at Jasper County Training School she...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Pierre Bellocq. Harold Wilson holds a brief case labeled "Common Market" in one hand and his smoking pipe in the other hand. He is walking away from Charles de Gaulle and other Common Market...
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...
From the Harold Courlander Papers.; A proof page with corrections (p. 3), from "How Poverty was Revealed to the King of Adja," which appears in Harold Courlander's The King's Drum and Other African Stories (1962); 8 x 12 1/2
From the Harold Courlander Papers.; A typescript page (p. 2) from "How Poverty was Revealed to the King of Adja," which appears in Harold Courlander's The King's Drum and Other African Stories; 8 1/2 x 11
From the Harold Courlander Papers.; An illustration proof (p. 2) from "How Poverty was Revealed to the King of Adja," which appears in Harold Courlander's The King's Drum and Other African Stories (1962); 8 x 12 1/2
From the Harold Courlander Papers.; A typescript page (p. 1), with corrections, from "Anansi Plays Dead," which appears in Harold Courlander's The Hat-Shaking Dance and Other Tales from the Gold Coast (1957); 8 x 11
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.; Mr. Tyrone Burton was born in Franklinton, Louisiana, on April 5, 1941. The family owned an eighty-eight acre farm. In 1961, Mr. Burton graduated from Franklinton High School. After high school, Burton attended Katy's Barber...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on September 14, 1977 with Mr. Semmes Luckett, attorney at law, at his office in Clarksdale, Mississippi. Luckett was born on October 28, 1905 in Yazoo City, Mississippi. He entered the University of Mississippi...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on January 5, 1978 with Miss Florence Mars at her home in Philadelphia, Mississippi. Mars was born on January 1, 1923 in Philadelphia, Mississippi. She studied at Millsaps College and University of Mississippi,...
Oral history.; Mrs. Frances Ryals Terry was born July 30, 1923, in Greenville, Mississippi. She was a child during the Depression and during the flood of 1927. Mrs. Terry grew up near Hollandale, Mississippi. She graduated from Delta State...
Oral history.; Mr. Harold Ray Presley was born in Tupelo, Mississippi, on October 5, 1948. In 1968 he was drafted into the Army and served in Vietnam for four years. Mr. Presley married and became the father of two sons and a daughter. Elvis...
