From the Political Campaign Collection. Political handout from Dennis Murphree, expressing his appreciation to voters following the 8 August 1939 election where he elected for the third time as Mississippi's Lieutenant Governor. According to the...
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...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; This issue of the Congressional Report records the reports of both the majority and minority opinion of the Committee for Elections of the United States House of Representatives regarding the...
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs; Photograph of the dedication of the Hattiesburg Airport, "Mississippi’s Finest Harbor of the Sky," on 23 September 1930.
Photograph of Associate Professor of Journalism, Ed Wheeler. Ed Wheeler's work has been shown in several galleries including the University of Southern Mississippi's Woods Gallery. Also found in the 1996 Southerner yearbook on page 48.
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; The first page of the document explains the statute and grounds that are the basis of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party's (MFDP) Congressional challenge. It describes each step of the...
Photograph of Fred Lewis, basketball coach, and Nick Revon. Revon became Mississippi's first to be initiated into the elite 2000 Club of basketball. Featured in the 1954 Southerner yearbook on page 287.
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; This document explains the right to vote and Mississippi's history of denying African Americans the right to vote. It discusses what the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party's Congressional...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on December 3, 1971 with the Honorable Charles Evers at his office in Fayette, Mississippi. Evers was born on September 11, 1922 in Decatur, Mississippi. In 1950, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in social...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on July 12, 1973 with Mr. Jerry Clower at his office in Yazoo City, Mississippi. Clower was born in 1926 at Route Four, Liberty, Mississippi. After graduating from high school, he joined the U.S. Navy. On...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on May 17, 1972 with Associate Justice Thomas Pickens Brady, of the Supreme Court of Mississippi in his chambers in Jackson, Mississippi. This is the second part of an interview conducted on March 4, 1972 with...
Photograph of Jimmy Buffett at a book signing. Buffett was named one of the University of Southern Mississippi's most intriguing people of 1999. Also found in the 1999 Southerner yearbook on page 287.
From the Hamlett (Ed) White Folks Project Collection. Janet McNeill writes to Ed Hamlett, Mississippi's state director of the White Folks Project (WFP), to tell him that due to unforeseen family circumstances, she must decline being a part of the...
Transcribed copy of a typewritten document entitled "Message from Mississippi," produced by the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission. This address was prepared for individuals who volunteered to speak publicly on behalf of the Mississippi State...
A complimentary matchbook used recruiting and marketing. The cover has printing: "Mississippi's fastest growing college...Compliments of Mississippi Southern College Department of Intercollegiate Athletics, Hattiesburg, Mississippi...Close cover...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection."White paper" on Mississippi agriculture, manufacturing, income, taxation, and their relation to the economic status of Black Mississippians.
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...
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...
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...
