Photograph of Jennifer Duke performing at the 2003 Miss Southern pageant. She was named 1st Alternate. This photo is featured in the 2003 Southerner yearbook on page 19.
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.; Interview conducted on May 1, 1972 with Dr. Aaron Henry in his drugstore in Clarksdale, Mississippi. Henry was born on July 2, 1922 in Clarksdale, Mississippi. After serving in World War II, he went to Xavier College (now Xavier...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on August 30, 1978 with Thomas Jefferson Tubb (born 1899). Mr. Tubb served as chairman of the Clay County Executive Committee for 47 years from 1928 to 1975 and during the Dixiecrat movement from 1950 to 1956....
Oral history.; Mrs. Alyce West Richardson was born on August 2, 1930, in Clarksdale, Mississippi. She graduated from Cleveland High School and Delta State Teachers College and worked as the secretary-treasurer of West Implement Company, Inc., and...
Oral history.; Ann Spivey Bishop Ruscoe was born in 1923 in Cleveland, Mississippi. She was graduated from Cleveland High School in 1941. She was Salutatorian, OAR Good Citizenship Girl, and won the Senior Award. After attending Delta State...
Oral history.; Mrs. Frances Ryals Terry was born July 30, 1923, in Greenville, Mississippi. She was a child during the Depression and during the flood of 1927. Mrs. Terry grew up near Hollandale, Mississippi. She graduated from Delta State...
Oral history.; Born on November 6, 1916, in Quito, Mississippi, Mrs. Martha Sisson Miller was the daughter of John William Sisson and Myrlea Johnson Sisson. She attended elementary and high school at Indianola City School. She attended Sunflower...
Oral history.; Mrs. Jane Michie Henry was born August 1, 1919, in Memphis, Tennessee. At that time her father farmed in Merigold, Mississippi. In 1928, Ms. Henry's father died, and in 1931 her mother moved the family to Cleveland, supporting them...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on February 21, 2007 with Aimee Gautier-Dugger, who describes her experience waiting out the storm in Gautier, the city her ancestors founded, and the struggle to regroup after the storm.
From the Hilbun (Dr. B.B.) Collection. Panoramic photograph of a scene from a pageant titled, "Neka Camon" (New Spirit), which was presented at Mississippi Normal College on May 22, 1919. 8" x 33"
Photograph of a scene from Alma Hickman's pageant, "Neka Camon". The title of the scene is "Pine Needles." This photo also appears on page 37 of "Dearly bought, deeply treasured : the University of Southern Mississippi, 1912-1987."; 6 x 8
Photograph of the program for "Neka Camon Woodlawn Pageant," written by Alma Hickman. This photo also appears on page 37 of "Dearly bought, deeply treasured : the University of Southern Mississippi, 1912-1987."; 2 x 4
Photograph of Scene from Alma Hickman's pageant, "Neka Camon." A primeval forest scene with Miss Hickman as the Spirit of the Pines. Also found in Dearly Bought, Deeply Treasured on page 36; 7 x 4 1/2
