From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs; Photograph of Mayor Moran Pope with Hattiesburg's first safety car. The car was donated to the city by Barron Motor Company, with assistance from the Hattiesburg Junior Chamber of Commerce. The car is...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on April 1, 1993 and January 6, 1995 with Ariel Barnes (born 1917). Mrs. Barnes was born in Forest, Mississippi, but moved to Hattiesburg shortly after. She attended Alcorn University, where she earned a...
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs; Photograph of O'Ferrall's horse-drawn float; it was the winning entry in Hattiesburg's 1906 Fourth of July parade. The float is parked in front of O'Ferrall's Ladies Furnishings; 7 x 5
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs; Photograph of a formal portrait of Dr. J. D. Donald, Mayor of Hattiesburg from 1907-1911. Dr. Donald was one of Hattiesburg's early physicians. This version from In Hattiesburg: A Pictorial History, page...
Oral history.; Albert Lloyd Henderson was born in 1928 as William Eugene Ramsey but was adopted in infancy. When he was thirty-nine years old, he found his birth family, five sisters and two brothers. Mr. Henderson grew up in Monroe, Louisiana. ...
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.; 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...
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs; Photograph of a formal portrait of Dr. John Gillis, Hattiesburg’s first physician, who began his practice in 1882, and opened an office on West Front Street in 1884.
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs; Photograph of the Broadway Mart Shopping Center opening in 1958. Mayor R.T. Carlisle and Lt. Gov. Carroll Gartin are among those present for the opening of one of Hattiesburg's first shopping centers.
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs; Photograph of N. R. Burger, one of Hattiesburg's most prominent African American educators. N. R. Burger Middle School is named for him.
Oral history.; The family of Dr. Isaac Thomas moved to Hattiesburg from Beaumont, Perry County, Mississippi, in 1935. He entered Eureka High School that year, graduating in 1938, one of a class of thirty three. Dr. Thomas stresses how important...
Oral history.; Mr. Aaron Morgan was born December 18, 1909. He attended Oak Hill School through the seventh grade and then attended Auburn Consolidated Schools, driving a covered wagon with a pair of mules as a school ";bus."; He finished high...
Oral history.; Angela Georgian was born in Greece in 1920 and emigrated to the United States in 1937. She and her mother and sister joined her father in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, where he had opened a small restaurant, Gus's Caf*. In 1947, Mrs....
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs. Photograph of the front façade of the People’s Bank located on 612 Mobile Street in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. The bank was established in 1905 and owned and operated by African-Americans.
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Volunteers Carolyn and Arthur Reese, Co-Coordinators of the COFO-Hattiesburg Freedom Schools during Freedom Summer, 1964, stand in front of Priest Creek Missionary Baptist Church at Palmer's...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on December 29, 2006 with Letitia Willams, Director of the Hancock County Chamber of Commerce, who describes escaping to Jackson, Mississippi, before Hurricane Katrina's landfall and working with state and...
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs; Photograph featuring artist's drawings of five early Hattiesburg Schools, circa 1908. Featured are Court Street, Fourth Ward, Hardy Street, Main Street and Third Ward Schools.
A handwritten list of Freedom Summer volunteers and staff in Hattiesburg written by Joe Ellin. The list gives the volunteers' religion, race, approximate age, and their work site. There are tally marks for the statistics on the lower right corner....
