Oral history.; Interview conducted on July 7, 1993 with Lt. Col. Billie Hughes of the Mississippi Highway Safety Patrol. Hughes was born in Pearl River County, Mississippi. He grew up in Pike County, Mississippi. After working for the railroad...
From the Camp McCain, Mississippi World War II Slides. Photograph (from a color slide) of Lt. Dennis Cooking his own chow at Camp McCain, near Grenada, Mississippi, in the Spring of 1943. Photograph taken by Lt. Omer Austin Heacox, who was with the...
Photograph of Gov. Ross Barnett, flanked by Pres. McCain and Lt. Gov. Paul B. Johnson Jr., signing legislation making USM a university in 1962. Standing left to right: Alumni President Ralph McDaniels, Representative Stone D. Barefield, MSC...
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...
Photograph of Golden Eagles serving in Operation Enduring Freedom. From left to right, First Lieutenant Dale Moree, Major Victor "Vito" Fiorentini, and Captain Shannon Hales show Southern Miss shirts sent by Lt. Moree's mother. Featured in the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by William Sandeson. A military officer points with his left hand toward a sky darkened by smoke and labeled "War." In his other hand, he carries a drawn sword labeled "Calley verdict" with 2nd...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on June 25, 2007 with Lieutenant General John C. ""Clark"" Griffith. General Griffith describes his experiences during and after Hurricane Katrina, as well as his involvement in commissions planning for the...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on March 28, 2006 with Alison Bass, a manager at Biloxi Grand Casino. She describes her experience before, during, and after Hurricane Katrina.
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.; William G. (Bud) Gray was born in Beat Five, Oktibbeha County, Mississippi, on December 27, 1914. He attended a consolidated school in Crawford, Lowndes County, and high school in Artesia, where he played football. He went to...
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.; Interview conducted on August 13, 1993 with Mr. Erle Johnston at his home in Forest, Mississippi. Johnston was born on October 10, 1917 in Garyville, Louisiana. In 1941, he moved Forest, Mississippi and bought the fledgling...
Oral history.; Discusses Murchison's time spent in the United States Army. Particularly focuses on his participation in the Vietnamese Conflict. During that time, Murchison served both as an adviser and in an actual unit. He received a number of...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on June 18, 1992 and March 9, 1993 with Mr. C.B. "Buddie" Newman at his home in Valley Park, Mississippi. Newman was born on May 8, 1921 in Valley Park, Mississippi. In 1942, he left his job with the Southern...
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...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on November 4, 1993 with Joseph E. Wroten (born 1925). Mr. Wroten became famous as one of only two Mississippi House Representatives who voted in favor of allowing blacks to enroll at the University of Mississippi.
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.; The Honorable Frank D. Barber was born on April 2, 1929, in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Barber attended the University of Mississippi for a year before volunteering for the U.S. Army which involved National Guard work in the U.S. and...
From the Camp McCain, Mississippi World War II Slides. Photograph (from a color slide) of the view of the company area from the officers quarters at Camp McCain, near Grenada, Mississippi, in the Spring of 1943. Photograph taken by Lt. Omer Austin...
From the Camp McCain, Mississippi World War II Slides. Photograph (from a color slide) of Major Park on his "10-minute" break at Camp McCain, near Grenada, Mississippi, in the Spring of 1943. Photograph taken by Lt. Omer Austin Heacox, who was with...