Oral history.; An interview conducted on August 25, 1971 with Erskine Caldwell (1903-1987). Mr. Caldwell was a prominent American author whose works include Tobacco Road, (1932) and God's Little Acre (1933).
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.; Interview conducted on March 26, 1974 with Rabbi Julian B. Feibelman in his office at the Temple Sinai in New Orleans, Louisiana. Feibelman was born on March 23, 1897 in Jackson, Mississippi. He remained in Jackson for the first...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; An unidentified Freedom School student reading Ebony magazine while lounging on the front porch of a house on Gravel Line Street in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer 1964. A...
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.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on August 2, 2007 and October 9, 2007 with Edmond Boudreaux, Jr., a longtime Mississippi Gulf Coast resident and active local historian of the region. Mr. Boudreaux discusses the impact of Hurricane Katrina on...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on October 24, 1978 with Mr. Nathaniel H. Lewis at his home in McComb, Mississippi. Lewis was born in McComb, Mississippi. In 1928, Lewis and his father organized the McComb Independent Lodge NO. 846 of the...
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...
Oral history.; Dr. John Paul Quon was born June 11, 1942, in Moorhead, Mississippi. His parents emigrated from China to Mississippi to participate in a family-owned grocery store. Dr. Quon was in the first public school class in Mississippi that...
Photograph of Cary Thrash, Herb Ivison, Liz Payne, Larry Payne, Leonard Farmer, Jim Payne, and Senator Trent Lott on their way to the NFC Championship Game in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Featured in the USM Alumni News, vol. 50, no. 4 (Spring 1997) on...
Photograph of the electronic sign at the corner of Hardy Street and Highway 49 on the Hattiesburg campus. Featured in the USM Alumni News, vol. 51, no. 4 (Spring 1998) on the back cover.
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.
Photograph of sports columnist Rick Cleveland and Dr. Aubrey Lucas sitting at a table during a campus bookstore event for Cleveland's book, "It's more than a game." Featured in the Talon, vol. 54, no. 1 (Summer 2000) on page 19.
Cover of the Winter 1988 edition of the USM Alumni News, vol. 40, no. 3. The photograph is of Dr. Aubrey Lucas, Dr. John Nau, and Dr. William McCain in Danforth Chapel, looking at the stained glass window.
Photograph of Michael Kaetsu, executive director of Tokyo-based Kaetsu Educational Foundation, presenting Dr. Eddie M. Lewis, professor of economics and international business, with a proclamation declaring her an honorary Kaetsu professor by...
Photograph of All-American softball pitcher Courtney Blades as she broke her own single-season record and career record. Featured in the Talon, vol. 53, no. 4 (Spring 2000) on page 23.
Photograph of Luigi Zaninelli, composer-in-residence at the University of Southern Mississippi. Featured in the USM Alumni News, vol. 52, no. 4 (Spring 1999) on page 6.
