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.; Ms. Eleanora Hayes was born on May 28, 1930, in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. She grew up on her father's farm in Catahoula, Mississippi. During winter months, she and her siblings attended school, and during the six-month...
Oral history.; Viola Brown Sanders was born in Sidon, Mississippi, on February 21, 1921. After Miss Sanders finished her education, she taught school for two years in Glen Allan, Mississippi. In 1943, Miss Sanders joined the United States Navy...
Oral history.; Three interviews conducted on April 28, 30 and May 7, 1981 with Mr. Claude Ramsay at his office in Jackson, Mississippi. Ramsay was born in 1916 in Ocean Springs, Mississippi. He served briefly in the Civilian Conservation Corps...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; An African American man, possibly a visiting minister with the Hattiesburg Ministers Project, and Freedom School teacher Dick Kelly (right) explain voter registration procedures to local...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on February 2, 1976 with James Cohen (born 1920). Since 1953, Mr. Cohen has been active in several civic associations in Hattiesburg and provides insight into the city's race relations and politics from the 1950s...
Oral history.; Orene Ellis Farese was born May 20, 1916, in Choctaw County, Mississippi. She attended a local public schools, Holmes Junior College, and Blue Mountain College. She began her professional career as a high school English teacher. When...
Oral history.; Four interviews conducted on June 11, September 26, October 10, and November 21, 1985 with Ms. Ruby Magee in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Magee was born on August 12, 1940 in Tylertown, Mississippi. In 1962, she received a BA in...
Oral history.; Ms. Margaret Lumpkin Martin was born in Tupelo, Mississippi, on February 16, 1910. In 1928 she graduated from Tupelo High School and began a forty-six year career at Citizens State Bank in Tupelo. In 1932, Ms. Martin was working at...
Oral history.; Miss Oseola McCarty was born on March 7, 1908, in Wayne County, Mississippi. McCarty attended Eureka Elementary School until the sixth grade when she dropped out to care for an aunt who was ill. While still in school, McCarty began...
Oral history.; Zella McNair Weathersby was born January 1, 1929, in Mt. Olive, Mississippi. Mrs. Weathersby graduated from high school from Depriest (now known as Earl Travillion) in Hattiesburg. She attended Jackson State College and later did...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; A group of Freedom Summer volunteers and local people singing at a fish fry hosted by local civil rights leader Vernon Dahmer on July 4, 1964, on his property in the Kelly Settlement north of...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; An unidentified female volunteer playing the guitar and singing at a fish fry hosted by local civil rights leader Vernon Dahmer on July 4, 1964, on his property in the Kelly Settlement north of...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Volunteers and local people sing at Vernon Dahmer's fish fry for the other guests on his property in the Kelly Settlement, to the north of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, on July 4, 1964. A female...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Photograph of a local African American child and other guests at the fish fry given for the volunteers by local civil rights leader Vernon Dahmer on his property in the Kelly Settlement, to the...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; The sons of Reverend Robert Beech, Director of the Hattiesburg Ministers Project, reach for cold drinks in a Coca-Cola cooler at the fish fry given for the volunteers by local civil rights...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Volunteers and local people clap their hands and sing while African-American teenagers watch from an automobile at Vernon Dahmer's fish fry for the volunteers on his property at in the Kelly...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; A group of local people and Freedom Summer volunteers sit on a tractor at the fish fry given for the volunteers by local civil rights leader Vernon Dahmer on the Dahmer property in the Kelly...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Victoria Jackson Gray, local civil rights leader and candidate for the U.S. Senate on the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) ticket, at Vernon Dahmer's fish fry for the volunteers on...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; A little girl identified as Della Balam stands behind a wooden post at Vernon Dahmer's fish fry for the volunteers on his property in the Kelly Settlement, to the north of Hattiesburg,...
