Oral history.; An interview conducted on July 25, 2006 with Naseer and Zaheer Ahmad. Zaheer had been a taxi operator in New Orleans for twenty-five years when Katrina forced his family to Virginia. Zaheer recalls his life in New Orleans and...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on June 19, 2006 with artist Lori K. Gordon. Ms. Gordon discusses her community, Clermont Harbor, Mississippi, before Hurricane Katrina, as well as her experiences afterward. Pieces from Ms. Gordon's work, The...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on December 19, 2006 with Kurt Brautigam, Distinguished Lecturer in the School of Mass Communication and Journalism at Southern MIss. Mr. Brautigam discusses preparing for Hurricane Katrina and its effects on...
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.; An interview conducted on December 29, 2006 with Letitia Willams, Director of the Hancock County Chamber of Commerce, who describes escaping to Jackson, Mississippi, before Hurricane Katrina's landfall and working with state and...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on December 14, 1972 with Mr. Percy Greene at his office in Jackson, Mississippi. Greene was born on September 7, 1897 in Jackson, Mississippi and died on April 16, 1977. He was very active in the civil rights...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on February 7 and 21, 1992 with Mr. Thomas Knight Sr. at the University of Southern Mississippi. Knight was born on July 9, 1920 near Hattiesburg, Mississippi. In 1941, he began working at the Reliance...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on October 28 and November 2, 1976 with Professor Charles G. Marx at the University of Southern Mississippi Campus in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Marx was born on November 23, 1932 in McComb, Mississippi. ...
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...
From the Kershner (Charles) Papers. A seven page speech by Charles “Chuck” Kershner, the editor of The Student Printz in spring 1964. The speech was delivered during the Symposium on Social Justice held at USM’s Thad Cochran Center on...
Twenty-page typescript of the diary of Jinny Glass, dated August 7, 1964, through August 25, 1964. Glass was a Freedom Summer volunteer from California who worked at the Palmer's Crossing Community Center, south of Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Published in New York by McLoughlin Bros., Inc., circa 1870s. Title and imprint from cover. Text on p. [2] and [3] of cover. "Mounted on linen." Printed on one side of leaf only; text and...
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Published in London and Edinburgh by Thomas Nelson & Sons, between 1880 and 1892. Cover title. In verse. "Untearable--mounted on cloth"--Cover. Date based on use of "untearable--mounted on...
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Published in New York by McLoughlin Bros., Inc., in 1888. Title, imprint, and series statement from cover. Caption title: Little Red Riding Hood. P. [2] and [3] of cover included in pagination. ...
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Published in New York by McLoughlin Bros., Inc., circa 1890s. Title and imprint from cover. P. [2] and [3] of cover included in pagination. "Mounted on linen".
From the Thigpen (S.G.) Papers. Photograph of a Ford Model T with an American flag on the window surrounded by children. A fueling station is on the left behind the crowd and a Ford sign is mounted on the building behind the automobile.
From the McLoughlin Brothers Papers. Color proof of jacket, 2 copies, one mounted on board of Stars and Stripes Forever: Stories and Poems of "Old Glory" illustrated by Priscilla Pointer (Springfield: McLoughlin Bros., 1943) Westfield classics #53,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Ed Valtman. An elephant dressed in a suit and smoking a cigar sits at a desk, one hand on an open newspaper. In his other hand, he holds a magazine open to a large picture of General William...
