Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on April 8 and 13, 1982 with Mr. E. Hammond Smith at his home in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Smith was born on December 17, 1894 in Bladen Springs, Alabama. His family moved to Hattiesburg, Mississippi and...
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.; Interview conducted on October 21, 1999 with Dr. Sandra Adickes (born 1933). In 1963, Dr. Adickes taught African-Americans in freedom school efforts in Prince Edward County, Virginia. In 1964, she was recruited to teach in...
Oral history.; Mr. Vernon Jackson grew up in Biloxi, Mississippi. Until 1955 he attended Our Mother of Sorrows Catholic School; he then attended Nichols High School and was graduated from there. He was inducted into the Army in 1965 and served...
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of a store window with a yarn display at the S.H. Kress & Co. store on Main Street.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of a store window with a jewelry display at the S.H. Kress & Co. store on Main Street.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of a store window with a yarn display at the S.H. Kress & Co. store on Main Street.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of a store window with a paint display at the S.H. Kress & Co. store on Main Street.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of a store window with a GE lightbulb display at the S.H. Kress & Co. store on Main Street.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of a store window with a sewing and ribbon display at the S.H. Kress & Co. store on Main Street.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of a store window with a candy display at the S.H. Kress & Co. store on Main Street.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of a store display of lamps and lamp shades at the S.H. Kress & Co. store on Main Street.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of a store display of underwear at the S.H. Kress & Co. store on Main 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...
Oral history.; Angela Georgian was born in Greece in 1920 and emigrated to the United States in 1937. She and her mother and sister joined her father in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, where he had opened a small restaurant, Gus's Caf*. In 1947, Mrs....
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs; Photograph of sales clerks inside the S. H. Kress Store on Main Street in downtown Hattiesburg in 1915. Third from right is Ester Lee Camp, and fourth from right is Pearl Hardin Bundy.
From the Adickes (Sandra E.) Papers. Copy of a typewritten letter from Sandra Adickes to Ella Baker, dated April 2, 1971. Adickes discusses the outcome of a lawsuit she filed against S.H. Kress and Company, and her desire to give her portion of the...
Running summary of various incidents that occurred during the Mississippi Freedom Project, Summer 1964. Organized chronologically, each entry gives the city and the incident. Includes instances of harassment, hostility, and violence against civil...
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...
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...
