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.; Two interviews conducted on November 12, 1981 and February 6, 1982 with Judge J. P. Coleman. Coleman was born on December 9, 1914 in Fentress, Mississippi. After attending the University of Mississippi, he was invited to work in...
Oral history.; The family of Dr. Isaac Thomas moved to Hattiesburg from Beaumont, Perry County, Mississippi, in 1935. He entered Eureka High School that year, graduating in 1938, one of a class of thirty three. Dr. Thomas stresses how important...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on June 8, 1976, with Will D. Campbell. Mr. Campbell, born in Amite County, Mississippi, was ordained as a pastor at the age of 17. He first became aware of race relations during time spent in the military, when...
Oral history.; Mr. Balfour William Ruff Sr. was born March 31, 1923, in Jackson, Mississippi. He moved to Tupelo at a young age and attended its public schools. For many years he operated the Ruff Dairy Farm, the first in the Tupelo area to...
Oral history.; Three interviews conducted on October 23, 29, and 30, 1996 with Hollis Watkins (born 1941), the twelfth child of sharecroppers. Mr. Watkins was jailed for participating in the Woolsworth's lunch counter sit-in in McComb and a...
Photograph of Lena de Grummond and Esphyr Slobodkina (mural artist) in front of the mural on the second floor of Cook Library. This photograph was featured in the Student Printz on May 5, 1970; 8 x 10
Photograph of Dr. Lena de Grummond, professor of Library Science, as she gives Brownie Scouts Robin Dunnam and Jamie Ambrose a tour of a collection of dolls from the home of sisters Emilie and Marie Stapp. The Stapp sisters' home was known as the...
Oral history.; Reverend Robert James Jamison was born on May 28, 1936, and lived in both St. Louis, Missouri, and the community of Shake Rag in Tupelo, Mississippi. Reverend Jamison earned money in high school from carpentry and upon graduation, he...
Oral history.; Mr. Palmer E. Foster was born in Jackson, Tennessee, and moved with his family to Ripley, Mississippi. After his high school graduation, he spent four years in the Army during World War II. Then he entered Rust College and in 1949...
Oral history.; Mr. Augustus (Gus) Ashby Sr. was born in 1924, in Washington, D.C. and moved to Tupelo where he became active in the local church. After high school, he attended college in Holly Springs and Okolona, Mississippi. He was a member of...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on May 8, 1971 with the Honorable Ross Robert Barnett in Jackson, Mississippi. Barnett was born on January 22, 1898 in Leake County, Mississippi. He graduated with his B.A. from Mississippi College in 1924. In...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on October 24, 1975 with the Honorable O.H. Barnett (born 1902). Mr. Barnett was elected Circuit Court Judge in 1958 and served until 1975. He presided during the civil rights movement in the 1960s, during the...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 14, 1994 with Mr. Andrew R. Carr. Carr was born in Clarksdale, Mississippi. He attended the Naval Academy during World War II, and then enlisted in the Navy. After twelve years in the Navy, Carr...
From the Margret and Hans Augusto Rey Papers.; Watercolor illustration of the Man in the Yellow Hat in the jungle from H.A. Rey's Curious George (1941), which was inscribed "to Lena Y. de Grummond" in May, 1972. 8.5" x 10.5"
From the Margret and Hans Augusto Rey Papers.; Letter from H.A. Rey to Lena DeGrummond with a drawing of Curious George bringing his papers to Hattiesburg.
From the Hardy (William H. and Sallie J.) Papers. Left to right, 1st row: Ida Hardy, W.H. Hardy, Mattie Hardy Lott, son of Ida and W.H.H.; 2nd row: Mabel Hardy, Lizzie Hardy Huey, Jeff D. Hardy, Lamar Hardy; 3rd row: Edwin Huey, Blanche Hardy,...
From the Donald Elmer Lawson Papers.; A photograph of Don Lawson at the first USM Book Festival in 1968. Also pictured are: Adelaide Holl, Berthe Amoss, Jane de Grummond, Alice Cooper Bailey, and Lena Y. de Grummond; 8 x 10
Oral history.; Mr. Larry Hudson Jr. was born on January 16, 1936, in Biloxi, Mississippi. After serving in the U.S. Army in Germany from 1958 to 1960, Larry Hudson Jr. earned a B.S. degree from Jackson State University in 1963. He worked in the...
