From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by John Stampone. Five men dressed in Santa Claus costumes stand on a street corner under a street sign labeled "Anti-poverty program street." Each is ringing a bell, and four stand beside...
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...
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs; Photograph of a uniformed officer standing next to an early model car at Camp Shelby. The license plate number on the car is: PHS U.S. 2, and it may be a Public Health Service vehicle put in use during...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; The fact sheet gives health, economic, and aid distribution statistics for African Americans in Greenville, Mississippi, in the 1960s.
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs. A Photograph of doctors and nurses connected with the Forrest County Health Center during WWII posed outside the Center. Included are (bottom row, l-r): Dr. Miller, Mrs. Bailey, Dr. Blackwelder, Mrs....
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of a window display about nurses by the Forrest County Health Department.
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. A large group of people enjoy refreshments outside the Palmers Crossing Community Center in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, at the party celebrating the Center's opening on July 18, 1964. Volunteer...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Sherman Copelin stands at a podium which has a banner attached reading, "Copelin for city council." Behind him are two ghosts of Copelin wearing white robes. One is labeled,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A small boy is looking at two very large containers on a shelf. One is a liquor bottle labeled, "Lower cost of liquor...Price-fixing off." The other is a carton of milk labeled,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. An image of Leonid Brezhnev wearing six large medals is projected onto a presentation screen, and the image is labeled "Brezhnev's health." A group of people stand near the...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 24, 1972 with Dr. William Penn Davis at his home in Jackson, Mississippi. Davis was born in Union County, Mississippi on August 5, 1903. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Mississippi College in...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on December 3, 1971 with the Honorable Charles Evers at his office in Fayette, Mississippi. Evers was born on September 11, 1922 in Decatur, Mississippi. In 1950, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in social...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on July 12, 1973 with Mr. Jerry Clower at his office in Yazoo City, Mississippi. Clower was born in 1926 at Route Four, Liberty, Mississippi. After graduating from high school, he joined the U.S. Navy. On...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on January 23, 1973 with Mr. William Dukes in his office in Gulfport, Mississippi. Dukes was born in the Sullivans' Hollow area near Raleigh, in Smith County, Mississippi on January 15, 1927. After his discharge...
From the Southern Tourism Collection. The pamphlet created by the Hattiesburg Chamber of Commerce extols the virtues of Hattiesburg and the surrounding areas. The author discusses the state of Hattiesburg in the 1920s and explains things such as...
