Oral history.; Interview conducted on July 31, 1981 with Mr. Cecil Shelton at the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Shelton was born on September 1, 1945 in Gore Springs, Mississippi. After graduating high school in...
Oral history.; Interviews conducted on May 11 and 12, 1992 with James C. Simpson (1930-1994). Simpson was elected to the Mississippi House of Representatives from Harrison County in 1964. He served six more consecutive terms covering more than 20...
Oral history.; Reverend Harry C. Tartt was born on October 16, 1908, in Biloxi, Mississippi. Reverend Tartt attended New Orleans University (now Dillard University) in New Orleans, Louisiana. In 1934, Reverend Tartt began teaching school at...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on April 18, 1996 with Zoya Zeman (born 1943). Ms. Zeman was a civil rights activist who worked on the Mississippi Summer Project in Clarksdale, where she worked at the community center, organizing classes and...
Oral history.; Dr. John Paul Quon was born June 11, 1942, in Moorhead, Mississippi. His parents emigrated from China to Mississippi to participate in a family-owned grocery store. Dr. Quon was in the first public school class in Mississippi that...
Oral history.; Kathleen (Kat) Bergeron was born on April 23, 1950. She attended Gulfport East High School and the W. Page Pitt School of Journalism at Marshal University in Huntington, West Virginia. From 1995 to 1996, Ms. Bergeron attended...
From Mrs. W's 1901 Diary. Mrs. W.'s diary paints a vivid portrait of the daily life of a middle class homemaker in 1901, and constitutes a daily account of the author's activities from April 1 - August 7, 1901.Very little biographical or historical...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; This essay by Mike Miller details the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee's (SNCC) voter registration project in Greenwood, Mississippi. The document discusses negative responses to the...
Photograph from the Johnston (Erle E., Jr.) Papers; Black-and-white photograph of a painted portrait of Owen Cooper, taken in 1960. Cooper, a prominent businessman from Yazoo City, was one of the first leaders of the Head Start program that was...
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs; Photograph of a formal portrait of Dr. Theophilus Erskine "T. E." Ross, Sr., owner of the Ross Building. Dr. Ross practiced medicine in Hattiesburg from 1892-1935.
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs; Photograph of a formal portrait of Dr. J. D. Donald, Mayor of Hattiesburg from 1907-1911. Dr. Donald was one of Hattiesburg's early physicians. This version from In Hattiesburg: A Pictorial History, page...
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs; Photograph of a formal portrait of Captain J. P. Carter, former Lt. Governor of Mississippi and Second President of The National Bank of Commerce in Hattiesburg.
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs; Photograph of a formal portrait of Dr. John Gillis, Hattiesburg’s first physician, who began his practice in 1882, and opened an office on West Front Street in 1884.
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs; Photograph of a formal Portrait of W. S. F. (Willie Sion Franklin) Tatum, mayor of Hattiesburg from 1922-1925, and 1929-1937. Mr. Tatum was also the owner of Tatum Lumber Company.
Copy of an undated, typewritten newsletter from Rabbi Charles and Anna Mantinband addressed to family. In the first three pages, Anna Mantinband discusses their travels to New York state and the surrounding area, including details of their...
