From the Southern Tourism Collection. 1954-55 Hi-Lights brochure from the Department of Parks and Recreation of Hattiesburg. The brochure shows all of the recreation opportunities in Hattiesburg and provides numbers on the amount of users of there...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on May 14, 1996 with Frances Thornton Smith (born 1916). In 1971, the year that elementary schools were integrated, Smith volunteered to teach at Fair Elementary School, an African-American school in Pascagoula,...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Volunteers and local people clap their hands and sing while African-American teenagers watch from an automobile at Vernon Dahmer's fish fry for the volunteers on his property at in the Kelly...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; A group of Freedom Summer volunteers and local people singing at a fish fry hosted by local civil rights leader Vernon Dahmer on July 4, 1964, on his property in the Kelly Settlement north of...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. The intersection of East Third Street and the railroad tracks in the Mobile Street area of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer, 1964. The railroad tracks marked an invisible...
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of fire trucks outside of the Central Fire Station at Hattiesburg City Hall.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of fire trucks outside of the Central Fire Station at Hattiesburg City Hall.
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; An unidentified female volunteer playing the guitar and singing at a fish fry hosted by local civil rights leader Vernon Dahmer on July 4, 1964, on his property in the Kelly Settlement north of...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; An African American child stands in front of a car damaged by gunfire during Freedom Summer, 1964, in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. The car is parked at the side of local civil rights leader J.C....
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of the Hattiesburg High School junior high football team spring practice.