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 September 17, 1980 with the Honorable Tony Byrne, former mayor of Natchez, Mississippi at his office in the Natchez City Hall. Byrne was born on May 18, 1936 in Natchez, Mississippi. He attended Mississippi...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on June 10, 1994 with Fred Clark Sr. (born 1943). Mr. Clark grew up in the segregated society of Jackson, Mississippi. He was educated in Jackson, attending Smith Robertson Elementary School, Rowan Junior High,...
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Retold by R. Marriott Watson, L.L. Weldon, Emily Bennett, A.M. Hoyer, & others. Published in London by Nister and in New York by E.P. Dutton, in 1870. Illustrations signed: E. Nister. Title page...
Letter, dated March 8, 1864, was written by W.L. Chatham to "sis," who the donor has identified as Nancy Elizabeth Searcy. Chatham is writing from the mountains of Jefferson County, Tennessee, where he is in the Confederate Army guarding Bull's...
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...
Oral history.; Mr. Alvin L. Fielder Sr. was born December 7, 1900 in Newton County, Mississippi. Mr. Fielder moved to Meehan Junction, Mississippi in 1913 and remained there until 1918, when he moved to Meridian. In 1918 he was a lumberyard saw...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on July 31, 1981 with Mr. Cecil Shelton at the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Shelton was born on September 1, 1945 in Gore Springs, Mississippi. After graduating high school in...
Oral history.; Mrs. Clara Griffin Watson was born in Biloxi, Mississippi, on October 15, 1933. During the 1960s, Mrs. Watson helped the COFO workers in Mississippi, marched on the Federal Building, and housed some of the civil rights activists in...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 5, 1998 with Judge Fred L. Banks, Jr. (born 1942). In the late 1960s, Judge Banks began his law career by serving for the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund. He was elected three times to the House of...
From the Zoya Zeman Freedom Summer Collection. Transcribed copy of a letter from Zoya Zeman to her father, after two phone conversations, dated March 5, 1964. Zeman writes that she will apply as a volunteer for the Mississippi Freedom Project and...
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. One color photograph of Kathleen Dahl, M.L. Curry, and his sister Rebel standing in front of Kathleen's car. M.L. Curry was a local resident of Holly Springs, Mississippi, and volunteered with...
From the L.E. Faulkner Papers. Letter, from Representative John E. Rankin to L.E. Faulkner, President of the Mississippi Central Railroad Company, dated 30 August 1950. Rankin, who was a former member of the Committee on Un-American Activities,...
From the Spears (Lawrence D.) Civil Rights Collection. Memo from A.L. Hopkins to Erle Johnston, Jr., dated January 26, 1965, printed on Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission letterhead. Discusses the attack on Rabbi Arthur Lelyveld by...
From the L.E. Faulkner Papers. Letter from Representative Colmer to L.E. Faulker, dated 25 January 1945. Colmer writes that he was "one of the five that was responsible for setting this Committee (Un-American Activities Committee) up in the first...
From the Political Campaign Collection. Campaign pamphlet for Martin L. Riley, candidate for State Superintendent of Public Education. The pamphlet contains biographical information and Riley's platform.
Finding aid for manuscript collection. ; Correspondence, newspaper articles and other items that document events surrounding the cancellation of Rev. Alvin Kershaw's scheduled appearance at the University of Mississippi in February 1956. For the...
