Oral history.; An interview conducted on June 16, 2008 with Rod Dickson-Rishel, pastor of the Mississippi City United Methodist Church. Reverend Dickson-Rishel discusses his experiences during and after Hurricane Katrina.
A Bill: To be entitled, "An Act to amend the existing Acts for the exemption of persons from military service." Mr Perkins moved the following as an amendment to the Exemption Bill, reported from the Committee on Military Affairs; enacted by the...
A Bill: To be entitled, "An Act to establish a Bureau of Foreign Supplies." By Mr. Perkins, from the Committee on Foreign Affairs; Read first and second times, placed upon the calendar, and ordered to be printed by the Congress of the Confederate...
A Bill: To be entitled, "An Act to facilitate the settlement of claims of deceased officers and soldiers." By Mr. Perkins; Read first and second times, made special order from Monday next, after morning hour, and day to day, and ordered to be...
A Bill: To provide Means to pay the Army and Navy, and carry on the War. By Mr. Perkins; Ordered to be printed by the Congress of the Confederate States of America on 25 February 1865.
A Bill: To raise a tax for the support of Government. By Mr Perkins; Read first and second times, referred to Special Committee on Currency and ordered to be printed by the Congress of the Confederate States of America on 11 December 1863.
Amendment: To the Bill to provide more effectually for the reduction and redemption of the currency. By Mr. Perkins; Ordered to be printed by the Congress of the Confederate States of America on 14 December 1864.
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 July 28, 1981 with Reverend Clinton Collier at the Methodist Church in Morton, Mississippi. Collier was born on August 24, 1910 [i.e. 1909] in rural Neshoba County. After completing the eighth grade, which...
From the McLoughlin Brothers Papers. Color proof of cover (2 items) of Mary Had a Little Lamb and other Nursery Rhymes [illustrated by Jack Perkins] (Springfield: McLoughlin Bros., 1938) Little color classics #803, from the books series of the...
From the McLoughlin Brothers Papers. Color proofs for frontispiece, pp. 2, 5, 6, 10, 14, 17, 18, 21, 22, 26, 30, 34, 37, 38, 41 (also has Little Black Sambo proofs) of The Pied Piper of Hamelin illustrated by Jack Perkins (Springfield: McLoughlin...
Oral history.; Mrs. Edith Ruff Thomas was born on February 12, 1920. She grew up on a farm that became well-established, providing products throughout Tupelo. In 1936, she lived through the Tupelo tornado, and in 1937 she was graduated from Tupelo...
Oral history.; Mr. Vernon Jackson grew up in Biloxi, Mississippi. Until 1955 he attended Our Mother of Sorrows Catholic School; he then attended Nichols High School and was graduated from there. He was inducted into the Army in 1965 and served...
Joint Resolutions: Expressing the sense of Congress on the subject of the late Peace Commission. By Mr. Perkins, from Committee of Foreign Affairs; Read first and second times, and ordered to be printed by the Congress of the Confederate States of...
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 April 2, 1972 with Mr. R. Jess Brown in Jackson, Mississippi. Brown was born in Coffeeville, Kansas, on September 2, 1912, and was raised in Oklahoma. He received a Bachelor of Science degree from Illinois...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on August 25, 1971 with Erskine Caldwell (1903-1987). Mr. Caldwell was a prominent American author whose works include Tobacco Road, (1932) and God's Little Acre (1933).
Oral history.; Tommie Dukes Sr. was born in 1906 in Richardson, Mississippi, a town that no longer exists. Mr. Dukes played baseball at Alcorn College and then played for semi-pro and Negro League teams. Among other teams, he played for the Memphis...
Oral history.; Reverend Robert James Jamison was born on May 28, 1936, and lived in both St. Louis, Missouri, and the community of Shake Rag in Tupelo, Mississippi. Reverend Jamison earned money in high school from carpentry and upon graduation, he...
Oral history.; Mr. James Madison Johnson was born on March 17, 1955, in Laurel, Mississippi. During his childhood, he lived in George County, Lucedale, Leaf, and McLain, Mississippi. Mr. Johnson attended college at Mississippi Valley State,...
