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.; Interview conducted on June 26, 1979 with Mr. William J. Simmons at his office in Jackson, Mississippi. Simmons was born in 1916 in Utica, Mississippi. He attended Millsaps College and Mississippi College, graduating from the...
Oral history.; Mr. Spain was born in 1927 in Ohio and moved with his family to Mississippi in 1930. While still a high school student, he helped build and operate a local AM radio station. Having graduated with honors from Mississippi State...
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 July 7, 1976 with Mr. P.A. Tims of Poplarville, Mississippi. Tims was born on October 20, 1890 in Ethel, Mississippi. In 1912, he enrolled in the first class to convene on the campus of the newly established...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on August 30, 1978 with Thomas Jefferson Tubb (born 1899). Mr. Tubb served as chairman of the Clay County Executive Committee for 47 years from 1928 to 1975 and during the Dixiecrat movement from 1950 to 1956....
Oral history.; Interview conducted on October 25, 1993 with Mrs. Raylawni Branch. Branch was born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, in 1941. After graduating from high school, she married and had three children. In 1965, Branch attended USM for one...
Oral history.; Borganelli discusses her teaching career and family, public education in Mississippi, the Mississippi Humanities Council, and race relations in Mississippi.
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; Mark DeWolf Howe, from Harvard Law School, discusses the 1870 statute on which the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) Congressional Challenge is based. He explains the statute and...
Article, "Mississippi: Rebuilding a Church," by Mark Panitch in the ADL Bulletin, circa 1965. The article discusses the efforts of a group of college students to rebuild the Antioch Baptist Church in Blue Mountain, Mississippi, which had been...
Materials in this collection were donated by William M. Colmer: First accession-1970. Additional information online at: http://www.lib.usm.edu/legacy/archives/m024.htm
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. President Ronald Reagan and Secretary of State Alexander Haig are in an office. On the desk is a paper with "New U.S. Central America-Caribbean policy." Both men are looking at...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ronald Reagan is in the role of a football coach explaining plays to a football player. He stands beside an easel and uses a pointer to indicate parts of a very complicated and...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ayotollah Ruhollah Khomeini sits cross-legged on a floor with his back to a wall on which are many hash marks that mark the passage of days during the Iran Hostage Crisis. He...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Louisiana Governor Dave Treen stands on the edge of an unfinished bridge labeled, "La.'s capital improvement needs." The bridge extends no further than the river's edge. Treen...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Stampone. Richard Nixon sits behind a desk in his office. A long line of middle-aged men have entered the office. Some of the men are labeled: "Fulbright, McGovern, Mansfield, Cooper,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man who is labeled, "Warmth of compassion for others" on the arm of his coat also wears a large round pin on his coat front with a check mark and the words, "fair share...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher; McNamara, dressed in jungle clothes, is standing on a giant question mark in the jungle that reads, "Question of War Expansion...How much."
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher; The cartoon is divided into two panels. The top panel depicts Sen. Kennedy sitting on a cloud labeled, "Political Future." The bottom panel shows Kennedy with a cloud, also...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by John Collins. Five of six panels show world leaders reading newspaper headlines of Lyndon Johnson's decision not to seek reelection in 1968. Canada's Lester B. Pearson says, "Those Americans!...
