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...
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...
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.; Biloxi Police Director Tommy Moffett was born March 2, 1950, in Taylorsville, Mississippi. He grew up in a household of ten siblings, and they all helped in sharecropping until Mr. Moffett was fifteen years old. His childhood was...
A dispatch sent by Brigadier General John C. Breckinridge to Colonel H. P. Brewster in Corinth, Mississippi, apparently in response to his request for information on Union troop movements in northeast Mississippi, and warning about a potential...
From the Weston (John) Letters. Letter from John Weston to Ezra Weston of Boston, Massachusetts, dated 24 November 1845, contains the text of a letter John Weston had received from Edmund Weston of Randolph, Vermont.
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 September 2, 1976 with the Honorable Hervey O. Hicks at his home in Benton, Mississippi. Hicks was born on a farm near Benton, Mississippi, in Yazoo County in 1900. In 1931, he ran a successful campaign for...
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....
From the Maurer (John B.) Freedom Summer Photographs; The photograph shows Bebe, John B. Maurer, and Mrs. Lamar Thomas in front of Thomas' Sundry in Batesville, Mississippi.
From the Adams (John Q.) Letters. Letter from John Quince Adams to his wife, Sarah Adams, dated 11 May 1862, written from Shiloh, Tennessee. Adams, who served in Co. E., 60th Regiment of the Illinois Volunteers during the Civil War, writes about...
From the Adams (John Q.) Letters. Letter from John Quince Adams to his wife, Sarah Adams, dated 25 May 1862, written from a camp near Farmington in Tishomingo County, Mississippi. Adams, who served in Co. E., 60th Regiment of the Illinois...
From the Adams (John Q.) Letters. Letter from John Quince Adams to his wife, Sarah Adams, dated 1 July 1862, written from Camp Big Springs, Mississippi. Adams, who served in Co. E., 60th Regiment of the Illinois Volunteers during the Civil War,...
From the Adams (John Q.) Letters. Letter from John Quince Adams to his wife, Sarah Adams, dated 27 May 1862, written from a camp near Farmington in Tishomingo County, Mississippi. Adams, who served in Co. E., 60th Regiment of the Illinois...
From the Adams (John Q.) Letters. Letter from John Quince Adams to his wife, Sarah Adams, dated 20 July 1862, written from Camp Big Springs near Corinth, Mississippi. Adams, who served in Co. E., 60th Regiment of the Illinois Volunteers during the...
From the Adams (John Q.) Letters. Letter from John Quince Adams to his wife, Sarah Adams, dated 21 June 1862, written from a camp near Corinth, Mississippi. Adams, who served in Co. E., 60th Regiment of the Illinois Volunteers during the Civil War,...
From the Adams (John Q.) Letters. Letter from John Quince Adams to his wife, Sarah Adams, dated 16 July 1862, written from a camp near Corinth, Mississippi. Adams, who served in Co. E., 60th Regiment of the Illinois Volunteers during the Civil War,...
From the Adams (John Q.) Letters. Letter from John Quince Adams to his wife, Sarah Adams, dated 10 June 1862, written from a camp near Booneville, Mississippi. Adams, who served in Co. E., 60th Regiment of the Illinois Volunteers during the Civil...
From the Adams (John Q.) Letters. Letter from John Quince Adams to his wife, Sarah Adams, dated 16 May 1862, written from Camp Pope, Mississippi. Adams, who served in Co. E., 60th Regiment of the Illinois Volunteers during the Civil War, writes...
From the Adams (John Q.) Letters. Letter from John Quince Adams to his wife, Sarah Adams, dated 16 June 1862, written from a camp near Corinth, Mississippi. Adams, who served in Co. E., 60th Regiment of the Illinois Volunteers during the Civil War,...
