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...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. President Nixon is dressed in the univorm of an American revolutionary soldier and has a rifle slung over one shoulder. In a mittened hand he holds a paper with the words,...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on July 12, 1973 with Mr. Jerry Clower at his office in Yazoo City, Mississippi. Clower was born in 1926 at Route Four, Liberty, Mississippi. After graduating from high school, he joined the U.S. Navy. On...
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of the PA system on the day that students moved from the junior high at Hattiesburg High School to the newly built Hawkins Junior High.
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Published in Warriorsmark, Pa., by the Malena Company, circa 1900s. Title from cover. The book was "Free -- with a box of Malena." Part of the Malena booklet series (no. 100).
Catalogue of Mary Holmes Seminary in West Point, Mississippi for the 1925-1926 academic year, "Under the care of The Board of National Missions of the Presbyterian Church, U.S.A. Division of Missions for Colored People Pittsburgh, PA."
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...
From the Hardy (William H. and Sallie J.) Papers. Letter from William Hardy to Sallie Hardy; written from Orange Court House, Virginia. Pages are missing from this letter.
Oral history.; Interview conducted on October 7, 1976 with Dr. W. B. Thompson at his office at Mississippi College in Clinton, Mississippi. Thompson was born on November 5, 1920 in Columbus, Mississippi. After returning from service in World War...
Oral history.; Reverend Harry C. Tartt was born on October 16, 1908, in Biloxi, Mississippi. Reverend Tartt attended New Orleans University (now Dillard University) in New Orleans, Louisiana. In 1934, Reverend Tartt began teaching school at...
Oral history.; Three interviews conducted on August 8 and 10, 1976 and October 19, 1976 with Jesse Boyce Holleman (born 1924). He served in the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1947 until 1953. At that time, he became district attorney for...