Oral history.; Jack Winton Gunn was born January 14, 1916, in Waco, Texas. His mother died in 1924, and his father remarried in 1925. Jack Gunn graduated from Baylor University and for a brief time worked in Tyler, Texas, and got a private pilot's...
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.; Mr. George A. Stevens was born in 1910 in Forrest County, Mississippi. He attended Hattiesburg public schools but graduated from high school in Anthony, New Mexico. Mr. Stevens returned to attend The University of Southern...
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 Margaret Thatch Hinton Collection. Breakfast menu for the "Know Mississippi Better" train on 26 August 1927, New Orleans, Louisiana, to El Paso, Texas, on the Southern Pacific Lines.
From the Margaret Thatch Hinton Collection. Breakfast menu for the "Know Mississippi Better" train on 27 August 1927, New Orleans, Louisiana, to El Paso, Texas, on the Southern Pacific Lines.
From the Margaret Thatch Hinton Collection. Dinner menu for the "Know Mississippi Better" train on 26 August 1927, New Orleans, Louisiana, to El Paso, Texas, on the Southern Pacific Lines.
From the Margaret Thatch Hinton Collection. Dinner menu for the "Know Mississippi Better" train on 27 August 1927, New Orleans, Louisiana, to El Paso, Texas, on the Southern Pacific Lines.
From the Margaret Thatch Hinton Collection. Lunch menu for the "Know Mississippi Better" train on 26 August 1927, New Orleans, Louisiana, to El Paso, Texas, on the Southern Pacific Lines.
From the Margaret Thatch Hinton Collection. Lunch menu for the "Know Mississippi Better" train on 27 August 1927, New Orleans, Louisiana, to El Paso, Texas, on the Southern Pacific Lines.
Copy of a typewritten newsletter from Rabbi Charles and Anna Mantinband to friends, offering Season's Greetings and an update of current events in the life of their family. Mentions the couple's move from northern Alabama to Hattiesburg,...
Oral history.; Ms. Marjorie Milam was born on September 17, 1916, in Tupelo, Mississippi. Her father, Mr. L.G. Milam, Sr. had a grocery store for a number of years; then he founded Milam and Duncan Brokers. Her mother founded Milam Manufacturing...
Oral history.; Discusses Murchison's time spent in the United States Army. Particularly focuses on his participation in the Vietnamese Conflict. During that time, Murchison served both as an adviser and in an actual unit. He received a number of...
Oral history.; Norman discusses the creation and work of the Mississippi Humanities Council, the people responsible for its early development, and its programs concerning race relations and public education.
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...
