Photograph of the one millionth item being added to the university's library collection. President Aubrey Lucas holds the barcode scanner and the acid free slip with the book's barcode as Ann Branton, Head of Cataloging, looks on. Also pictured...
Photograph of President Aubrey Lucas and others at the Cook Library ground breaking ceremony. Also featured in the 1993 Southerner yearbook on page 50.
Photograph of the model for Cook Library, showing the entrance to the new library building and the courtyard beside the Power House. Featured in the USM Alumni News, vol. 48, no. 1 (Summer 1995) on page 16.
Oral history.; Interview conducted on October 21, 1995 with Fred Winyard (born 1944), a civil rights activist recruited from Reed College in Oregon by the student nonviolent coordinating committee to work in Mississippi. He helped to organize the...
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. A typed letter from Elinor Lerner on the letterhead of COFO in Vicksburg, Mississippi, explains that teachers in Warren County, Mississippi, do not need a donation of used textbooks and that the...
Photocopy of a two-page typed letter, dated June 30, [1964], from Nancy Ellin to "Dr. and Mrs. Ellin [Joe's parents]." The letter was written a few days after Nancy and Joe reached Hattiesburg and describes the people and living conditions in the...
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...
Carbon copy of a five-page typed Report on the Library written on August 26, 1964 by Nancy Bowles Ellin. The report lists book loan procedures and policies. The main library in the project's headquarters and branches at Mt. Zion Baptist Church, the...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Newsletter published by the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO)" Topics in this issue include an incident of discrimination against a mother and her sick child, Freedom Schools, the...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Memo from Virginia Steele, co-coordinator of the Mississippi Summer Project libraries, to librarians, dated August 7, 1964. Steele requests the attendance of library workers at a meeting...
Photograph of international students in the plaza between Cook and McCain Libraries. Left to Right: Ta-one Hongsurakul (Thailand), Amelia Santo (Brazil), and Sonia Rueda (Colombia).
Oral history.; Interview conducted on February 27, 1991 in the city hall of Corinth, Mississippi with Mayor Edward S. Bishop, Sr. Bishop was born in Starkville, Mississippi on December 11, 1907. In 1926, he completed high school at Jackson...
