Oral history.; An interview conducted on February 21, 2007 with Leroy Johnson, longtime Pascagoula, MS, resident, who describes his experience there during Hurricane Katrina and the devastation it wrought on the community and his personal life.
Oral history.; Dorothea Allsup was born on February 4, 1916. Her family resided in Nebraska, but they moved to Epes, Alabama and then Macon, Mississippi, when she was seventeen. While Mrs. Allsup attended high school in Macon she met her future...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on August 2, 2007 and October 9, 2007 with Charles Benvenutti, a CPA in Bay St. Louis, MS. He describes his experience during and after Hurricane Katrina.
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.; Mrs. Sarah Harris Ruffin was born on April 15, 1914. Her parents came to Hattiesburg in the early 1900s. When young, Mrs. Ruffin did domestic and warehouse work. In 1949, she began working at the Brooklyn Jewish Hospital as a nurse's...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Free Southern Theater actor John O'Neal performs in Martin Duberman's play "In White America" at True Light Baptist Church in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, on August 3 as part of Freedom Summer,...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Free Southern Theater actors, from left to right, Denise Nicholas, John O'Neal, and Gilbert Moses perform Martin Duberman's play "In White America" at True Light Baptist Church in Hattiesburg,...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. The Free Southern Theater performs Martin Duberman's "In White America" at True Light Baptist Church. FST actors in the scene are (foreground, left to right) FST cofounders SNCC Field Secretary...
From the Tigert (David Neal) Letters; this collection contains approximately 200 letters written by David Neal Tigert to his family while he was at basic training at Fort Sam Houston in Texas. Change of address notice from the Department of Defense.
From the Tigert (David Neal) Letters; this collection contains approximately 200 letters written by David Neal Tigert to his family while he was at basic training at Fort Sam Houston in Texas. Christmas letter from Tigert to his mother and father...
From the Tigert (David Neal) Letters; this collection contains approximately 200 letters written by David Neal Tigert to his family while he was at basic training at Fort Sam Houston in Texas. Custom's declaration parcel tag.
From the Tigert (David Neal) Letters; this collection contains approximately 200 letters written by David Neal Tigert to his family while he was at basic training at Fort Sam Houston in Texas. Letter and Christmas card from Edward Reardon to David...
From the Tigert (David Neal) Letters; this collection contains approximately 200 letters written by David Neal Tigert to his family while he was at basic training at Fort Sam Houston in Texas. Letter and postcard from Tigert to his mother and...
From the Tigert (David Neal) Letters; this collection contains approximately 200 letters written by David Neal Tigert to his family while he was at basic training at Fort Sam Houston in Texas. Letter from Maroin A. Crawford to Mrs. Tigert.
From the Tigert (David Neal) Letters; this collection contains approximately 200 letters written by David Neal Tigert to his family while he was at basic training at Fort Sam Houston in Texas. Letter from Mrs. Tigert to Mrs. Jas L. Cottingham.
From the Tigert (David Neal) Letters; this collection contains approximately 200 letters written by David Neal Tigert to his family while he was at basic training at Fort Sam Houston in Texas. Letter from Tigert in Camp Pike, Arkansas.
