Oral history.; Born on January 19, 1958, in Greenwood, Mississippi, Jon Levingston grew up in a Jewish family in Cleveland, Mississippi. Mr. Levingston attended a boarding school in Rome, Georgia and then the University of Georgia and the Virginia...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on November 12, 1997 with Winifred Green (born 1937). After earning a bachelor's degree in English from Millsaps College in 1963, Mrs. Green and four other women formed Mississippians for Public Education, one...
Oral history.; Mrs. Jane Michie Henry was born August 1, 1919, in Memphis, Tennessee. At that time her father farmed in Merigold, Mississippi. In 1928, Ms. Henry's father died, and in 1931 her mother moved the family to Cleveland, supporting them...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on June 18, 2007 with Margaret Alfonso, the Senior Chancery Court Judge for Hancock, Harrison, and Stone counties. She discusses her experience with Hurricane Katrina on the Gulf Coast.
Oral history.; Interview conducted on October 21, 1999 with Dr. Sandra Adickes (born 1933). In 1963, Dr. Adickes taught African-Americans in freedom school efforts in Prince Edward County, Virginia. In 1964, she was recruited to teach in...
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.; Interviews conducted on October 3, 1994 and October 10, 1994 with Mrs. Jane Menefee Schutt (born 1913). Mrs. Schutt was appointed to the Mississippi Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and served four years, the...
From the McLoughlin Brothers Papers. A Letter from Jane Amdisen to McLoughlin Brothers Inc., from the correspondence series of the McLoughlin Brother Papers. The McLoughlin Brothers Papers contain manuscripts, typescripts, galleys, correspondence,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A female soldier sits on her bed in a military bunkhouse. She appears sad and is holding a letter in one hand. The torn open envelope is on the floor. Two other female soldiers...
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.; An interview conducted on February 21, 2007 with Ruth Horn, a long-time Moss Point, Mississippi, resident who describes her experiences surrounding Hurricane Katrina on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
Oral history.; Dorothea Allsup was born on February 4, 1916. Her family resided in Nebraska, but they moved to Epes, Alabama and then Macon, Mississippi, when she was seventeen. While Mrs. Allsup attended high school in Macon she met her future...
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. A new version, to which is added Little Jane and her mother. Published in Boston by Wm. J. Reynolds and Company, in 1848. Page numbering is inconsistent. Three parts issued in one, each with...
From the Campbell (Will D.) Papers; Copy of a typewritten letter from Will D. Campbell to Jane Eddy, dated February 14, 1963. Campbell informs Eddy that he is sending her various newspapers and articles as evidence that The Free Press was not the...
One letter written by Augusta Evans Wilson in Mobile, Alabama, to Major E. C. Walthall, expressing Evans' appeciation of Walthall's compliments on her novel Infelice, recently translated into Italian, and her opinions on contemporary political...
From the McLoughlin Brothers Papers. Color proof of cover for Poems for the Children's Hour edited by Jane Wheeler, color illustrations by Priscilla Pointer (Springfield: McLoughlin Bros., 1939) Little color classics #828, from the books series of...
