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...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on February 22, 2007 with Dorothy Burney, a retired Biloxi schoolteacher, who describes her experiences during and after Hurricane Katrina on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 23, 1977 with Mr. Jimmy Swan. Swan was born in Cullman County, Alabama. He ran away from home when he was thirteen or fourteen and ended up in Wayne County, Mississippi. Swan sang in nightclubs and...
Transcribed copy of a typewritten letter from P. D. East to Theron Lynd, dated November 26, 1962. East makes reference to an incident in which Lynd publicly accused him of being a communist and demands that Lynd either prove his accusation or go...
From the Political Campaign Collection. Campaign pamphlet from Jesse W. Shanks, recently re-elected as a representative from Lamar County in the state legislature, announcing his candidacy for Speaker of the House. The back contains biographical...
From the Major-Sowers Saw Mill Photographs Collection. Photograph of a loaded log train moving out of the lumber yard at the Epley site in Lamar County.
Photograph of Lamar Reynolds being presented with a Southern Miss jersey with the number 200 on it at the 200th straight game he attended. Featured in the USM Alumni News, vol. 52, no. 5 (Fall 1999) on page 4.
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 eight 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...
Oral history.; Mrs. Lorita Nelson Jones was born on July 19, 1909, in Biloxi, Mississippi. Her mother's family were originally from New Orleans, Louisiana, of Creole heritage; her grandmother, Olivia Lewis, spoke only in French. Her father Lamar...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on March 29 and April 13, 1977 with Mr. Amzie Moore at his home in Cleveland, Mississippi. Moore was born on September 23, 1911 in rural Mississippi, on the county line of Carroll and Grenada Counties. In...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on May 14, 1996 with Frances Thornton Smith (born 1916). In 1971, the year that elementary schools were integrated, Smith volunteered to teach at Fair Elementary School, an African-American school in Pascagoula,...
Pamphlet from the Campbell (Will D.) Papers; Pamphlet prepared by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in November 1955. Provides information about three racially-charged murders in Mississippi: Rev. George W....
From the Major-Sowers Saw Mill Photographs Collection. Photograph featuring a panoramic view of the Major-Sowers Saw Mill Company in Epley, Mississippi. This view shows the sawmill on the right and company housing on the left. The foreground is...
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
