A collection of six 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.; The Honorable Frank D. Barber was born on April 2, 1929, in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Barber attended the University of Mississippi for a year before volunteering for the U.S. Army which involved National Guard work in the U.S. and...
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 May 11, 1982 with Professor N.R. Burger at his residence in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Burger was born on April 7, 1909 in Brookhaven, Mississippi. In 1932, he completed his undergraduate degree from Alcorn...
Photograph of Perry Edwards and Monroe Hales. Perry Edwards likes to spend some of his free time sitting in the sun and talking to his friends. On this sunny afternoon, he listens to Monroe Hales make weekend plans. Also found in the 1997...
A collection of eight 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 August 26, 1975 with Earl W. Banks, 1905-1986. He enrolled at Alcorn University in Lorman, Mississippi, for one year, then transferred to Jackson State University where he completed high school. He continued...
From the Political Campaign Collection. Campaign pamphlet for Frank H. Harper, candidate for re-election to the Mississippi State Senate for the 42nd district of Forrest and Perry Counties.
From the Major-Sowers Saw Mill Photographs Collection. Photograph of the planing mill at the the Major-Sowers Sawmill Company, Tallahala site in Perry County.
From the Major-Sowers Saw Mill Photographs Collection. Photograph of a storage shed piled high with lumber at the Major-Sowers Sawmill Company, Tallahala site in Perry County.
From the Major-Sowers Saw Mill Photographs Collection. Photograph of three workers in the planing mill at the the Major-Sowers Sawmill Company, Tallahala site in Perry County.
From the Major-Sowers Saw Mill Photographs Collection. Photograph of a rear view of a flat car loaded with logs to be used to replace decking on "Old Ironsides" The USS Constitution. The lumber came from the Tallahala site in Perry County.
From the Major-Sowers Saw Mill Photographs Collection. Photograph of a side view of a railroad car piled high with timber to replace the decking on "Old Ironsides" The USS Constitution. The lumber came from the Tallahala site in Perry County.
From the Major-Sowers Saw Mill Photographs Collection. Photograph of a ground view of a portion of the Major-Sowers Sawmill Company, Tallahala site in Perry County.
From the Major-Sowers Saw Mill Photographs Collection. Photograph of a log train with timber to replace decking on "Old Ironsides" The USS Constitution. The lumber came from the Tallahala site in Perry County.
From the Major-Sowers Saw Mill Photographs Collection. Photograph of stacks of timber to be used for decking on "Old Ironsides" The USS Constitution. The lumber came from the Tallahala site in Perry County.
From the Major-Sowers Saw Mill Photographs Collection. Photograph of a side view of a railroad car piled high with timber to replace the decking on "Old Ironsides" The USS Constitution. The lumber came from the Tallahala site in Perry County.
From the Major-Sowers Saw Mill Photographs Collection. Photograph of a log train with timber to replace decking on "Old Ironsides" The USS Constitution. The lumber came from the Tallahala site in Perry County.
From the Major-Sowers Saw Mill Photographs Collection. Photograph of flat cars loaded with logs to replace decking on "Old Ironsides" The USS Constitution. The lumber came from the Tallahala site in Perry County.
From the Major-Sowers Saw Mill Photographs Collection. Photograph of flat cars loaded with logs to replace decking on "Old Ironsides" The USS Constitution. The lumber came from the Tallahala site in Perry County.
