Oral history.; Interview conducted on November 4, 1993 with Joseph E. Wroten (born 1925). Mr. Wroten became famous as one of only two Mississippi House Representatives who voted in favor of allowing blacks to enroll at the University of Mississippi.
Oral history.; Interview conducted on February 21, 1980 with the Honorable George M. Yarbrough at his home. Yarbrough was born on August 15, 1916 at Red Banks, Mississippi. Yarbrough served in the U.S. Army during World War II, achieving the rank...
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.; The Honorable Frank D. Barber was born on April 2, 1929, in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Barber attended the University of Mississippi for a year before volunteering for the U.S. Army which involved National Guard work in the U.S. and...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on October 25, 1993 with Mrs. Raylawni Branch. Branch was born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, in 1941. After graduating from high school, she married and had three children. In 1965, Branch attended USM for one...
Oral history.; Mrs. Geraldine (Gerry) Blessey was born in Biloxi, Mississippi, on April 16, 1922. Mrs. Blessey is a member of the Biloxi Council of Garden Clubs, the Biloxi Bay Chamber of Commerce, the Gulf Coast Symphony Guild, and the Maritime...
Oral history.; Four interviews conducted on October 1, 2, and 23 of 1975, and July 1, 1976 with Mr. Hugh Clegg at his home in Anguilla, Mississippi. Clegg was born on July 17, 1898 in Mathiston, Mississippi. Clegg graduated from Millsaps...
Oral history.; Three interviews conducted on April 28, 30 and May 7, 1981 with Mr. Claude Ramsay at his office in Jackson, Mississippi. Ramsay was born in 1916 in Ocean Springs, Mississippi. He served briefly in the Civilian Conservation Corps...
Oral history.; Mr. Terry Allen Broadus was born on October 11, 1938. Mr. Broadus enrolled at Perkinston Agricultural High School in 1952 and later received a baseball scholarship to attend Perkinston Junior College. In the late 1960s, Mr. Broadus...
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...
Transcribed copy of a report by the General Legislative Committee of Mississippi based on findings from an investigation of the occupation of the University of Mississippi in 1962 by the United States Department of Justice. Action was taken in...
From the Belcher (Granville W. and Mary Caroline) Letters. Granville W. Belcher, a farmer from Martinsville, Henry County, Virginia, served in company F, 57th Virginia Infantry during the Civil War. Belcher writes to his nephew [ William H....
From the Goodyear Yellow Pine Company Photographs. Photograph of skidder timber harvesting operations at the Goodyear Yellow Pine Company of Picayune, Mississippi. Large, double-ended skidder with tank car. Work crew and possibly L.O. Crosby in...
From the Goodyear Yellow Pine Company Photographs. Photograph of skidder timber harvesting operations of the Goodyear Yellow Pine Company of Picayune, Mississippi. Railroad car crane loading logs. One of the men standing on the logs is possibly...
From the Goodyear Yellow Pine Company Photographs. Photograph of skidder timber harvesting operations of the Goodyear Yellow Pine Company of Picayune, Mississippi. Large skidder, work crew, and possibly L.O. Crosby posing in foreground. The...
From the Goodyear Yellow Pine Company Photographs. Photograph of skidder timber harvesting operations of the Goodyear Yellow Pine Company of Picayune, Mississippi. Railroad car crane loading logs. Possibly L.O. Crosby standing on logs watching. The...
From the Okinawa World War II Photographs. Photograph of a destroyed bridge on the Naha Canal, presumed to have been taken during preliminary air raids on Okinawa during World War II. Photo was found by Sgt. Willie V. Oubre, 22nd Marine Brigade,...
From the Okinawa World War II Photographs. Photograph of a leveled supply route or supply station, presumed to have been taken during preliminary air raids on Okinawa during World War II. Photo was found by Sgt. Willie V. Oubre, 22nd Marine...
From the Okinawa World War II Photographs. Photograph of a destroyed government building, presumed to have been taken during preliminary air raids on Okinawa during World War II. Photo was found by Sgt. Willie V. Oubre, 22nd Marine Brigade, 6th...
