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...
Finding aid for manuscript collection. ; The Peggy Jean Connor papers contain 2 newspaper articles, a memoir of the civil rights movement in Mississippi written by herself, a school report by her grandson, and an undergraduate thesis concerning...
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...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Peggy Jean Connor studying documents during Freedom Summer 1964. She is in Jean's Beauty Shop (her place of business) located at 510 Mobile Street in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Connor was...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Peggy Jean Connor and Sandy Leigh handle the finances of the COFO-Hattiesburg Project in Connor's place of business, Jean's Beauty Shop at 510 Mobile Street in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, across...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Peggy Jean Connor in her place of business, Jean's Beauty Shop, at 510 Mobile Street in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, across the street from COFO-Hattiesburg headquarters at 507 Mobile Street,...
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 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 Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Herbert Randall's close-up of Sandy Leigh taken in Peggy Jean Connor's place of business, Jean's Beauty Shop at 510 Mobile Street in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, across the street from...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Close-up of local activist Peggy Jean Connor, participating in a meeting of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer, 1964.
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. An African American male teenager in a plastic raincoat walks south under the shop signs of African American businesses in the 500 block of Mobile Street, across the street from...
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 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.; Mr. King T. Evans was born on March 19, 1913 near Uniontown, Alabama, in Perry County. In 1925, Mr. Evans moved to Mississippi with his parents. His father was a mechanic and farmer. For a brief period, Mr. Evans attended the...
Oral history.; Lusia Harris-Stewart was born February 10, 1955, in Minter City, Mississippi. She attended Amanda Elzy High School in Greenwood, Mississippi. In 1977, she graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in physical education from Delta...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on September 20, 1979 with Dr. Dewey Lane at the Robinson Lane Surgical Clinic in Pascagoula, Mississippi. Lane was born on September 27, 1934 in Starkville, Mississippi. He attended Vanderbilt University from...
Oral history.; Born on November 6, 1916, in Quito, Mississippi, Mrs. Martha Sisson Miller was the daughter of John William Sisson and Myrlea Johnson Sisson. She attended elementary and high school at Indianola City School. She attended Sunflower...
Oral history.; Dr. Antone Walter Tannehill, Jr., was born May 22, 1929, in New Orleans, Louisiana, but grew up in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. He attended Vanderbilt University and Duke University Medical School. He served an internship at the...
Interviews conducted on 04-21-1977 and 05-12-1977 with Unita Blackwell (born 1933). Ms. Blackwell was a field worker for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in 1964 and also served that year as a delegate of the Mississippi Freedom...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Local activists and volunteers participate in a meeting of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) at the St. Paul United Methodist Church in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom...
