From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A child in a skeleton costume walks down the street carrying an enormous bag of candy labeled, "Trick or treat." The cartoon caption reads, "The affluent society."
Photograph of students in front of a streetcar by the campus gate in 1915; 9 x 6. Pictured: Alberta Powe (front) Jeanette McCormick, Velma Morrison, Janie Sullivan and Mabel Mixon (back, left to right). Also found in "Hattiesburg: A Pictorial...
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...
From the Kate Greenaway Papers. Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain by John Ruskin (Sunnyside, Orpington Kent: George Allen, 1884). proof, hand colored by Kate Greenaway (20.5 x 15.5 cm.) tailpiece for Letter the...
From the Kate Greenaway Papers. Pencil sketch (34.5 x 32.5 cm.) Girl sitting on chair sleeping. A vertical tear, which has been repaired, extends through the right side of the sketch. Purchased from Kenneth W. Rendell. Illustration not used in a...
From the Kate Greenaway Papers. Pencil sketch (24 x 45 cm.) "Girls on the Cliffs Twilight" 11 girls of various ages standing in a field of flowers. Contains pencil notations by KG. Purchased from Kenneth W. Rendell. Illustration not used in a...
From the Zwerling (Matthew) Freedom Summer Collection. Typewritten letter from Senator Kenneth B. Keating to Dr. Israel Zwerling dated June 23, 1964. Keating responds to Zwerling's telegram about the disappearance of James Chaney, Andrew...
From the Zwerling (Matthew) Freedom Summer Collection. Typewritten letter on Congressional letterhead from Senator Kenneth B. Keating to Dr. Israel Zwerling dated September 5, 1964. Keating affirms his support for civil rights workers in...
From the Johnston (Erle E., Jr.) Papers; Typewritten letter from Kenneth Dean to Robert Nash dated April 4, 1967, in which Dean voices his concerns about the continued racial violence and discrimination in Mississippi. Dean describes an incident...
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs; Photograph of the 1926 Mississippi Central Railroad Team in the YMCA Twilight Baseball League, Pictured are: (back row) Dillard Hill, Kenneth Rawls, Smokie Harrington, Carl Wilder, Roy Ruble, Charlie...
A collection of ten 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...
Materials in this collection were donated by William M. Colmer: First accession-1970. Additional information online at: http://www.lib.usm.edu/legacy/archives/m024.htm
Oral history.; Born on March 28, 1914, Dr. Eleanor Byrd Walters was born in Gunnison, Mississippi. In 1934, she received her B.S. in education from Delta State Teachers College and went on to earn several advanced degrees. From 1934 through 1943...
Oral history.; A native of Mississippi, Mrs. Bates received degrees from Tougaloo College and West Virginia University, with further study at the University of Colorado and the University of Denver. She has been a resident of Denver, Colorado, for...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on September 10, 1993 with Herman Cowan Glazier Jr. (born 1918). Glazier's service record in Mississippi government spans forty-five years from 1946 to 1987. This includes his serving as exectutive assistant to...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on September 2, 1976 with the Honorable Hervey O. Hicks at his home in Benton, Mississippi. Hicks was born on a farm near Benton, Mississippi, in Yazoo County in 1900. In 1931, he ran a successful campaign for...
Oral history.; Mr. Jeremiah O'Keefe was born in Ocean Springs, Mississippi, on July 12, 1923. Mr. O'Keefe attended Sacred Heart Academy for high school. He entered the U.S. Navy and received his wings in the U.S. Marine Corps in May, 1943. Having...
Oral history.; Three interviews conducted on August 8 and 10, 1976 and October 19, 1976 with Jesse Boyce Holleman (born 1924). He served in the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1947 until 1953. At that time, he became district attorney for...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on November 4, 1993 with Joseph E. Wroten (born 1925). Mr. Wroten became famous as one of only two Mississippi House Representatives who voted in favor of allowing blacks to enroll at the University of Mississippi.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on October 21, 1998 with Kenneth York (born 1948) in Neshoba County, Mississippi. York is an educator and advocate for Choctaw cultural heritage.
