From the Quantrill (William Clarke) Research Collection; Letter from Second Lieutenant R. A. Randlett to William E. Connelley, regarding Randlett's capture by Quantrill.
From the United States Forest Service, Harrison Experimental Forest Station Collection. Photograph of the opening of the Southern Forest Experiment Station in Gulfport. Pictured left to right, A.F. Verral, Senator John Stennis, B.W. Henry, R.E....
A collection of ten 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.; Two interviews conducted on August 29, 1991 with Mr. Richard Boyd and on September 29, 1992 with Mrs. Earline Boyd. Mr. Boyd was born on July 21, 1916 in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. He graduated from Eureka High School in 1935. ...
Oral history.; Mrs. Mattie Lou Hardy was born on May 13, 1908, in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Mrs. Hardy first attended school at Mount Zion Baptist Church, then transferred to the Eureka School in the first grade. She was a member of Eureka's second...
Photograph of Dr. Neil R. McMillen, who was awarded one of the two 1990 Bancroft prizes in American History for his book, Dark Journey: Black Mississippians in the Age of Jim Crow. Featured in the 1990 Southerner yearbook on page 321.
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.; An interview conducted on March 22, 1979 with Eddie Carthan (born 1949). Mr. Carthan taught school at Durant Attendance Center and at Saints College in Lexington, Mississippi, and has owned and operated several businesses in Tchula,...
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Illustrated by John R. Neill. Published in Chicago by Reilly & Britton Co., in 1908. Part of the Children's red books series.
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Retold by R. Marriott Watson, L.L. Weldon, Emily Bennett, A.M. Hoyer, & others. Published in London by Nister and in New York by E.P. Dutton, in 1870. Illustrations signed: E. Nister. Title page...
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Published in New York by McLoughlin Bros., Inc., copyright 1888. Title, imprint, and series statements from cover. Several pages are lacking, which makes the story incomplete. "Printed on...
From the Johnston (Erle E., Jr.) Papers; Copy of a typed letter from William J. Simmons to Governor Ross R. Barnett, dated May 6, 1969, written in response to a speech by Barnett concerning James Meredith and integration at the University of...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; This transcription of Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) chairman John Lewis's address to the Equal Rights Subcommittee of the Democratic National Committee explains what SNCC is...
Materials in this collection were donated by William M. Colmer: First accession-1970. Additional information online at: http://www.lib.usm.edu/legacy/archives/m024.htm
Oral history.; Interview conducted on October 13, 1993 with Mr. Kenneth O. Williams at the new state capitol building in Jackson, Mississippi. Williams was born on January 18, 1924 in Clarksdale, Mississippi. He received a BA in political science...
Photograph of R.B. Hill, retired theatre professor, at a protest against the firing of professors Frank Glamser and Gary Stringer by President Shelby Thames. Hill holds a small sign athat reads, "Retirees against Thames" and wears a small sign on...
Oral history.; Mr. John Sherman Crubaugh was born April 12, 1913. During his college years at Mississippi State, from 1931, he worked to pay for his education. After he received a B.S. degree and an M.Ed. degree from Mississippi State University,...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on June 10, 1994 with Fred Clark Sr. (born 1943). Mr. Clark grew up in the segregated society of Jackson, Mississippi. He was educated in Jackson, attending Smith Robertson Elementary School, Rowan Junior High,...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on May 3, 1982 with Reverend James Randolph, former pastor of St. Paul's Methodist Church, at the parsonage in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Randolph was born on April 4, 1949 in Rankin County, Mississippi, near...
