A collection of eight 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...
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...
Materials in this collection were donated by William M. Colmer: First accession-1970. Additional information online at: http://www.lib.usm.edu/legacy/archives/m024.htm
A collection of eight 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.; Interview conducted on July 7, 1993 with Ken Fairly, a Mississippi law enforcement officer and journalist. Fairly was born on February 18, 1928 in Hazlehurst, Mississippi. Now retired, he had two careers: one as a journalist and...
Oral history.; Norman discusses the creation and work of the Mississippi Humanities Council, the people responsible for its early development, and its programs concerning race relations and public education.
Oral history.; Jack Winton Gunn was born January 14, 1916, in Waco, Texas. His mother died in 1924, and his father remarried in 1925. Jack Gunn graduated from Baylor University and for a brief time worked in Tyler, Texas, and got a private pilot's...
Memoir written by Jack E. Pitts, a private soldier in Company K, First Virginia Cavalry, Confederate Army, of his experiences in General J.E.B. Stuart's raid around the Army of the Potomac outside of Richmond, Virginia, in the summer of 1862. Pitts...
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 January 31, 1977 with Jimmy Carter Fairley (born 1921). A native of Greene County, Mississippi, Mr. Fairley was active in the civil rights movement at the local, state, and national levels.
Oral history.; Ms. Frances Elkin Joyner was born on November 23, 1909, in Tupelo, Mississippi. She graduated from Tupelo High School and then attended National Park Seminary in Forest Glen, Maryland. She married Ernest Love Joyner, Jr. just...
Oral history.; Born on October 20, 1939, in Sandy Ridge, Lowndes County, Alabama, Mr. Loyce Searight moved with his family to Biloxi, Mississippi, in March of 1947. He graduated from M.F. Nichols High School and went on to earn several other...
Oral history.; Mr. Jack Raymond Reed was born on May 19, 1924, in Tupelo, Mississippi. In 1941, Mr. Reed graduated from Tupelo High School and he then entered the military and World War II as part of the Signal Intelligence Service, U.S. Army of...
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Published in Glasgow by David Bryce and Son, circa 1890. Contains: House that Jack built; Jack and the bean stalk; Old Mother Hubbard; Jack, the giant killer; Cinderella; Death and burial of Cock...
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs; Photograph of the 1939 YMCA State Junior Basketball Champions. They are identified as: (front) John McLain, Jr. and Cecil Jones, (middle) Milton Evans, Pat Howell, Roland Heidelberg, and Claude Pittman,...
From the McLoughlin Brothers Papers. Color proofs for frontispiece and page 52 (on same sheet) of Jack and the Beanstalk illustrated by H.G. Nicholas (Springfield: McLoughlin Bros., 1931) Junior color classics, and Jack and the Beanstalk...
From the McLoughlin Brothers Papers. Color proofs for Title Page and page 49 (on same sheet) of Jack and the Beanstalk illustrated by H.G. Nicholas (Springfield: McLoughlin Bros., 1931) Junior color classics, and Jack and the Beanstalk illustrated...
From the McLoughlin Brothers Papers. Color proofs for Pages 4-5 (on same sheet) of Jack and the Beanstalk illustrated by H.G. Nicholas (Springfield: McLoughlin Bros., 1931) Junior color classics, and Jack and the Beanstalk illustrated by H.G....
From the McLoughlin Brothers Papers. Color proofs for Page 8 of Jack and the Beanstalk illustrated by H.G. Nicholas (Springfield: McLoughlin Bros., 1931) Junior color classics, and Jack and the Beanstalk illustrated by H.G. Nicholas (Springfield:...
From the McLoughlin Brothers Papers. Color proofs for Page 17 and Page 45 (on same sheet) of Jack and the Beanstalk illustrated by H.G. Nicholas (Springfield: McLoughlin Bros., 1931) Junior color classics, and Jack and the Beanstalk illustrated by...
