Oral history.; Mr. King T. Evans was born on March 19, 1913 near Uniontown, Alabama, in Perry County. In 1925, Mr. Evans moved to Mississippi with his parents. His father was a mechanic and farmer. For a brief period, Mr. Evans attended 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...
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.; Ms. Phyllis Hawkins Harper was born October 6, 1933, in Mooreville, Mississippi. She graduated from Mooreville High School and went on to Itawamba Junior College and the University of Mississippi. During the Depression, Ms. Harper...
From the Esther Hautzig Papers.; Title page (p. 2) with editor's notes from Esther Hautzig's On the Air: Behind the Scenes at at TV Newscast; 8 1/2 x 11
From the Clifford Lindsey Alderman Papers.; A page of handwritten notes from Clifford Alderman's Blood-Red the Roses: The Story of the Wars of the Roses; 8 1/2 x 11
From the Ferida Wolff Papers.; Two pages of composition notes written on hotel stationary and used by Ferida Wolff in writing The Emperor's Garden; 8 1/2 x 6
From the Robert Silverberg Papers.; Three scraps of paper with research notes written on them from Robert Silverberg's Scientists and Scoundrels: A Book of Hoaxes; 7 1/2 x 13
From the Robert Silverberg Papers.; A photocopy of illustrations and layout with notes from Robert Silverberg's Forgotten By Time: A Book of Living Fossils; 8 1/2 x 14
From the Gene DeWeese Papers.; Composition notes, including an early diagram for organization of story/plot for Gene DeWeese's Nightmare Universe (1985). 8.5" x 11"
From the Gene DeWeese Papers.; Composition notes (30 April 1996) labeled "outline and scenes" (p.1) from Gene DeWeese's Lord of Necropolis (1997). 8.5" x 11"
From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection. Cover letter from Staughton Lynd and Harold Bardanelli of Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) in Jackson, Mississippi, to Freedom School volunteer teachers. The cover letter gives...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on February 19, 2009 with George Bass, Chief of Long Beach Fire Department. He talks about losing his home and his other experiences in Long Beach during and after Hurricane Katrina.
From the Justin Francis Denzel Papers.; A typescript page (p. 15) with editor's notes on yellow "post-it notes" from Justin Denzel's Boy of the Painted Cave; 8 1/2 x 11
From the McAtee (William "Bill" G.) Civil Rights Collection; This collection contains an original curriculum packet given out at the SNCC-NCC training site in Oxford, Ohio, for Freedom Summer workers going to Mississippi. It is accompanied by...
