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.; Dr. Sam Spinks was born on March 19, 1921, in Henleyfield, Mississippi. Dr. Spinks attended Henleyfield High School, Pearl River Junior College, The University of Southern Mississippi and The University of Florida. He served in the...
Oral history.; Dr. Forest Kent Wyatt was born on May 27, 1934, in Berea, Kentucky. He graduated from Delta State College (now Delta State University) with a double degree in mathematics and health, physical education, and recreation. He then began...
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of members of the Kappa Delta sorority at Mississippi Southern College.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of members of the Kappa Delta sorority at Mississippi Southern College.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of members of the Kappa Delta sorority at Mississippi Southern College.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of members of the Kappa Delta sorority at Mississippi Southern College.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of a banquet for the Kappa Sigma fraternity at Mississippi Southern College.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of members of the Kappa Delta sorority at Mississippi Southern College.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of members of the Kappa Delta sorority at Mississippi Southern College.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of a banquet for the Kappa Sigma fraternity at Mississippi Southern College.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of members of the Kappa Delta sorority at Mississippi Southern College.
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 May 11, 1982 with Professor N.R. Burger at his residence in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Burger was born on April 7, 1909 in Brookhaven, Mississippi. In 1932, he completed his undergraduate degree from Alcorn...
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...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 19, 1975 with Otho Monroe (born 1912). Mr. Monroe was superintendent of the Senatobia School District from 1949 until 1968, when he resigned in protest of school desegregation.
