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.; An interview conducted on March 14, 2007 with Richard Chenoweth, Jr., owner of Scranton's Restaurant in Pascagoula, MS. He describes his preparations for and experiences during Hurricane Katrina on the Gulf Coast.
A collection of six 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.; Albert Lloyd Henderson was born in 1928 as William Eugene Ramsey but was adopted in infancy. When he was thirty-nine years old, he found his birth family, five sisters and two brothers. Mr. Henderson grew up in Monroe, Louisiana. ...
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.; Four interviews conducted on June 11, September 26, October 10, and November 21, 1985 with Ms. Ruby Magee in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Magee was born on August 12, 1940 in Tylertown, Mississippi. In 1962, she received a BA in...
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....
From the McLoughlin Brothers Papers. Progressive color proofs (4-part separations) of page 3 of Kiddies Number Book illustrated by Louise D. Tessin (Springfield: McLoughlin Bros., 1927) #2200 from the books series of the McLoughlin Brother Papers....
From the McLoughlin Brothers Papers. Progressive color proofs (4-part separations) of page 4 of Kiddies Number Book illustrated by Louise D. Tessin (Springfield: McLoughlin Bros., 1927) #2200 from the books series of the McLoughlin Brother Papers....
From the McLoughlin Brothers Papers. Progressive color proofs (4-part separations) of page 5 of Kiddies Number Book illustrated by Louise D. Tessin (Springfield: McLoughlin Bros., 1927) #2200 from the books series of the McLoughlin Brother Papers....
From the McLoughlin Brothers Papers. Progressive color proofs (4-part separations) of page 11 of Kiddies Number Book illustrated by Louise D. Tessin (Springfield: McLoughlin Bros., 1927) #2200 from the books series of the McLoughlin Brother Papers....
From the McLoughlin Brothers Papers. Progressive color proofs (4-part separations) of page 13 of Kiddies Number Book illustrated by Louise D. Tessin (Springfield: McLoughlin Bros., 1927) #2200 from the books series of the McLoughlin Brother Papers....
From the McLoughlin Brothers Papers. Progressive color proofs (4-part separations) of page 14 of Kiddies Number Book illustrated by Louise D. Tessin (Springfield: McLoughlin Bros., 1927) #2200 from the books series of the McLoughlin Brother Papers....
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...
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...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on February 22, 2007 with Bruce Grimes, a resident of Pascagoula, MS, who describes his experience during Hurricane Katrina on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, including re-building his home.
Oral history.; Interview conducted on December 11, 1972 with Mr. Owen Cooper at his office in Yazoo City, Mississippi. Cooper was born on a farm near Vicksburg, Mississippi. He attended Culkin Academy in Vicksburg, and received a degree in...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on February 21, 2007 with Aimee Gautier-Dugger, who describes her experience waiting out the storm in Gautier, the city her ancestors founded, and the struggle to regroup after the storm.
