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...
From the Methodist Hospital Historical Collection. Panoramic photograph of Methodist Hospital nursing students posed in a single line, with hands on each other's waists, circa 1926.
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. Kathy Dahl's nursing certificate, awarded in September 1964 by the Mississippi Nurse's Board of Examination and Registration. Includes the Seal of Mississippi.
From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection.; Photograph taken in September 1964 of Zoya Zeman, Carolyn Lane, and friends. It shows Zeman and Lane standing in front of a building with an unidentified man and child in Clarksdale, Mississippi....
From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection.; Photograph taken in September 1964 of Carolyn Lane, an unidentified man, five unidentified women, and one unidentified child. It shows the group standing in front of the Ruleville Community Center....
Oral history.; Four interviews conducted on June 11, September 26, October 10, and November 21, 1985 with Ms. Ruby Magee in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Magee was born on August 12, 1940 in Tylertown, Mississippi. In 1962, she received a BA in...
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...
Oral history.; Ms. Vonciel Harris was born November 19, 1912, in Thomaston, Alabama. Her parents were Jim and Rachel Tims. She attended nursing school in Montgomery, Alabama. After finishing nursing school, she married Mr. Jimmy Harris and moved...
From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection.; Photograph of Carolyn Lane and six unidentified African American children taken during a Medical Committee for Human Rights (MCHR) trip to rural areas near Clarksdale, Mississippi, in September...
From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection.; Photograph of Carolyn Lane and six unidentified African American children taken during a Medical Committee for Human Rights (MCHR) trip to rural areas near Clarksdale, Mississippi, in September...
From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection.; Photograph of Carolyn Lane and Dr. Leo Orris taken during a Medical Committee for Human Rights trip to rural areas near Clarksdale, Mississippi, September 1964.
From the Margret and Hans Augusto Rey Papers.; Pencil sketches from Margret and H.A. Rey's Curious George Goes to the Hospital (1966). Curious George with nurses. 5.5" x 5.5"
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 19, 1994 with Ms. Vernon J. Keys (born 1926). Beginning in 1965, Ms. Keys worked with the Coahoma Opportunities, Inc. (COI), a community action agency designed to improve the economic position of the poor...
Oral history.; An interview conducted August 29, 2006 with Pam McVey, a nurse at Biloxi Regional Medical Center, who describes Hurricane Katrina's devastating effects on the hospital and its patients.
Oral history.; Viola Brown Sanders was born in Sidon, Mississippi, on February 21, 1921. After Miss Sanders finished her education, she taught school for two years in Glen Allan, Mississippi. In 1943, Miss Sanders joined the United States Navy...
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...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on June 28, 2007 with Elizabeth Marks Doolittle, Public Services Librarian at the University of Southern Mississippi, Gulf Park Campus. Ms. Doolittle discusses her experiences during Hurricane Katrina.
