From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Marie Blalock, Peggy Jean Connor, and Vassie Patton (left to right) at a Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) meeting held in the sanctuary of a local African American church in...
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. Five African American girls from Hattiesburg, Mississippi, pose for the camera in front of True Light Baptist Church during Freedom Summer, 1964. They are (from left to right) Otis Ruth Travis,...
From the Milton Meltzer Papers.; A letter from Jean R. Reynolds with a sketch of the final cover design attached to it (January 26, 1998). The letter and sketch are from Milton Meltzer's Food: How We Grow and Eat It, How We Buy and Sell It, How We...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on May 18, 1972 with Ms. Ruby Magee at College Hall at the University of Southern Mississippi. Magee was born in 1940 in Tylertown, Mississippi. In 1962, she received a BA in history and political science from...
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...
From the Margret and Hans Augusto Rey Papers.; L'Ecole des Loisirs letter in French. Letter in English from H.A. Rey to L’Ecole des Loisirs dated 28 July 1972. Letter in English from H.A. Rey to his American publishers, dated 6 August 1972.
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...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; A view of a meeting of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) from the rear of the St. Paul United Methodist Church in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer, 1964. Seated at...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. A group of African American men walk north under the shop signs of African-American businesses in the 500 block of Mobile Street, across the street from the COFO-Hattiesburg project...
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 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 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 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.; Discusses her father, Erle Johnston. Describes his relations with Ross Barnett and his work with the State Sovereignty Commission, which she denies was ever a spy organization.