Photograph of the ground breaking ceremony of the Payne Fitness Center. Left to right: Peter Durkee, Bill Schlicher, Heather McKee, Larry Payne, Jim Payne, Aubrey Lucas, and Sid Gonsoulin. Photograph featured in the 1991 Southerner on page 81.
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on April 8 and 13, 1982 with Mr. E. Hammond Smith at his home in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Smith was born on December 17, 1894 in Bladen Springs, Alabama. His family moved to Hattiesburg, Mississippi and...
Photograph of an aerial view of the Payne Center as it nears completion. Reed Green Coliseum can be seen behing the Payne Center. Featured in the 1993 Southerner yearbook on page 311.
Photograph of Cary Thrash, Herb Ivison, Liz Payne, Larry Payne, Leonard Farmer, Jim Payne, and Senator Trent Lott on their way to the NFC Championship Game in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Featured in the USM Alumni News, vol. 50, no. 4 (Spring 1997) on...
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...
cartoon by Eugene Payne; Two castaways float on a raft in the ocean. After seeing bottles, cans and other trash in the waves, one of the bearded men on the raft concludes, "We Must Be Nearing Land."
cartoon by Eugene Payne; A triangular cardboard shelter labeled "Leadership" has a "Vacancy" sign posted. There are other shelters in this homeless community. The Washington Monument stands in the background.
cartoon by Eugene Payne; A stage is filled with approximately thirty candidates for office. They wait to begin a session to "Meet the Candidates." There are rows of seats in the audience, but there is only one person there to listen.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eugene Payne. In an open, wooden garage or barn, a man sits on a crate painting large signs with the words, "Impeach Earl Warren." A sleeping dog, a vehicle tire, and an open aluminum can are...
cartoon by Eugene Payne; The "Watergate" semi-truck sits on the side of the road, out of gas. "Sam Ervin" runs toward a passing "School Bus" and in the process he abandons "Watergate."
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...
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...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on September 20, 1993 with Brad Dye concerning Mississippi Governor Paul Johnson Jr. Dye was born on December 20, 1933 in Charleston, Mississippi. In 1957, he received his bachelor of business administration...
Oral history.; Mr. King T. Evans was born on March 19, 1913 near Uniontown, Alabama, in Perry County. In 1925, Mr. Evans moved to Mississippi with his parents. His father was a mechanic and farmer. For a brief period, Mr. Evans attended the...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on September 2, 1976 with the Honorable Hervey O. Hicks at his home in Benton, Mississippi. Hicks was born on a farm near Benton, Mississippi, in Yazoo County in 1900. In 1931, he ran a successful campaign for...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on August 26, 1975 with Mr. Charles Johnson at his home in Jackson, Mississippi. Johnson was born in 1911 in Amory, Mississippi. After receiving a degree in Science from Mississippi State University, he began...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on July 24, 1999 with Joseph Schwartz (born 1938). Schwartz was active in Friends of SNCC at Berkeley and went South in the autumn of 1964. He worked in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, from September 1964 to March 1965.
