Oral history.; Interview conducted on August 17, 1977 with Mrs. Betty Carter at her home in Greenville, Mississippi. Carter was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. She attended Newcomb College where she met her husband, Hodding Carter. Together they...
Oral history.; Reverend Harry C. Tartt was born on October 16, 1908, in Biloxi, Mississippi. Reverend Tartt attended New Orleans University (now Dillard University) in New Orleans, Louisiana. In 1934, Reverend Tartt began teaching school at...
Oral history.; Mrs. Leila Lyle Wilkinson Underhill was born in Shelby, Mississippi, on July 29, 1919. She grew up during the Great Depression and remembers the flood of 1927. During World War II, Mrs. Underhill's brother was killed. Mrs....
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,...
Oral history.; Four interviews conducted on October 1, 2, and 23 of 1975, and July 1, 1976 with Mr. Hugh Clegg at his home in Anguilla, Mississippi. Clegg was born on July 17, 1898 in Mathiston, Mississippi. Clegg graduated from Millsaps...
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 Kate Greenaway Papers. The White Cat based on Madame d'Aulnoy's Conte la chatte blanche. London: Gall & Inglis, [1870]. pencil sketch (28 x 23 cm.) Prince in chair.
From the Kate Greenaway Papers. The White Cat based on Madame d'Aulnoy's Conte la chatte blanche. London: Gall & Inglis, [1870]. pencil sketch (28 x 23 cm.) Prince on horseback.
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. Fundraising letter with accompanying television transcript dated April 24[?], 1967. The letter and transcript are about the legal difficulties of the Louisiana-based Southern Consumers' Education...
Photocopy of a three-page typed letter from Joe Ellin to "Mom and Dad," written on Wednesday, July 29, 1964. The host family, work in the project's office, books, and the Freedom Library are discussed. There is a description of a short trip to New...
A handwritten list of Freedom Summer volunteers and staff in Hattiesburg written by Joe Ellin. The list gives the volunteers' religion, race, approximate age, and their work site. There are tally marks for the statistics on the lower right corner....
Letter, dated 29 November 1863, from Brigadier General Boggs in Shreveport, Louisiana, to Major General James B. McPherson, commander at Vicksburg, Mississippi, requesting assistance in helping the family of a Dr. Catlett travel from Kentucky to...
Fifteen-page typescript of a journal kept by Sandra Adickes during her stay in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, as a volunteer in the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project of 1964. The journal is dated July 10 - August 20, 1964. Adickes discusses her work as...
Transcribed copy of a paper about racism in Mississippi during the 1960s. Follows the tribulations of college students who volunteered to register African Americans to vote during Freedom Summer. With regard to racism and white supremacy,...
Transcribed copy of a journal written by Joseph Ellin in which he discusses government and political issues in relation to racial discrimination, education, economic conditions, and other aspects of society and culture in Mississippi.
From the Map Collection. A map of the Atlantic ocean between the coasts of Brazil and Guinea. "Pascaarte vande Zee custen van Guinea en Brasilia Van Cabo de Verde tot C de bona Esperanca en van R. de Amazonia tot Rio de la Plata, alles opwassende...
From the Map Collection. A map of present day eastern United States. The top left has an enlarged view of the coast from Louisiana to the Florida panhandle. In addition to rivers, cities and settlements being identified, the map is littered with...
A Discourse before the General Assembly of South Carolina, on December 10, 1863, Appointed by The Legislature as a day of fasting, humiliation and prayer. By B.M. Palber, D.D., of New Orleans, LA.
