A collection of six 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...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on February 21, 2007 with Tom Higgins, a retired shipyard manager and author of Sunshine on my Shoulders, a first-person narration of life after Hurricane Katrina. He describes his experience in Pascagoula,...
From the Adams (Victoria Gray) Papers. Analysis of Senate bill 2988, the Internal Security Act of 1968, introduced to the Senate by Senator James Eastland. Thomas I. Emerson, professor at Yale University, deciphers the bill and its effects on all...
From the Major-Sowers Saw Mill Photographs Collection. Photograph featuring an aerial view of the Major-Sowers Saw Mill Company in Tallahala, Mississippi. This view shows the sawmill, mill pond, rail lines, and company housing. The photo was taken...