Oral history.; An interview conducted on May 19, 2008 with David Baria, a resident of Bay St. Louis during Hurricane Katrina. He describes his experience before, during, and after the storm.
Oral history.; Discusses race relations in New York and Mississippi, the problems of freedom-of-choice desegregation, and the power of Joe Patterson, John Bell Williams, and James Eastland in Mississippi politics. This interview reviews the lawsuit...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on October 21, 1999 with Dr. Sandra Adickes (born 1933). In 1963, Dr. Adickes taught African-Americans in freedom school efforts in Prince Edward County, Virginia. In 1964, she was recruited to teach in...
Oral history.; Maurice Guyton Turner was born on April 29, 1912, in Greene County, Mississippi. He graduated from Greene County Agriculture High School in 1932. After staying out of school for a year he worked in his brother's grocery store. He...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 26, 1977 with William Joel Blass (born 1917). As a lawyer in 1952, he successfully prosecuted the Boyce Holleman case by proving that voter fraud had kept Holleman from winning. Beginning in 1953, he...
Oral history.; Reverend Sammie Rash was born in Sunflower County, Mississippi, on July 31, 1942. His parents were sharecroppers, and in 1949 they moved the family to the McGann plantation in Bolivar County, where Reverend Rash grew up. In 1963...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on December 1, 1994 with Judge Harvey T. Ross (born 1920). In the mid-1960s, Judge Ross was active in laying the groundwork for Coahoma Opportunities, Inc. (COI), a community action agency designed to improve the...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 30, 1977 with the Reverend Sammie Rash (born 1942). Reverend Rash, the son of sharecroppers, has been very active in both civil rights activities and Mississippi politics, in addition to being a minister...
Fifteen-page typescript of a journal kept by Sandra Adickes during her stay in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, as a volunteer in the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project of 1964. The journal is dated July 10 - August 20, 1964. Adickes discusses her work as...
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 Merritt Mauzey Papers.; Pencil drawing of a windmill entitled "Prairie Ghost" (p. 31) from Merritt Mauzey's Cotton Farm Boy (1953). 12.5" x 17.5"
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Composition book of Freedom School student Gwendolyn Merritt. Contains the resolutions of the Priest Creek Precinct meeting as well as a brief essay on the Freedom Movement and the Black...
ROTC Flight Program. Pictured kneeling: Cadet COL James F. Merritt, Cadet CPT William D. Britton; standing: Cadet 1LT Clint Connerly, Cadet Major Thomas C. Hightower, Cadet CPT Robert Owens, Cadet CPT Cecil Gunter and Cadet CPT Hillard Kelley.
From the Merritt Mauzey Papers.; Small ink sketches of a of a hippopotamus in Africa and mammal in Africa created by Merritt Mauzey [circa 1972]. Sketch one is 3" x 5" and sketch two is 3.5" x 5.5"
From the Merritt Mauzey Papers.;Small, unpublished ink sketch of a horse and cart in Benares, India which was created by Merritt Mauzey and appeared in a Dallas Morning News article (20 February 1972). 6.5" x 3.5"
From the Merritt Mauzey Papers.; Small ink sketch of Hagia Sophia mosque in Istanbul, Turkey which was created by Merritt Mauzey and appeared in a Dallas Morning News article (20 February 1972). 6.5" x 6"
