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 12, 1973 with Mr. Jerry Clower at his office in Yazoo City, Mississippi. Clower was born in 1926 at Route Four, Liberty, Mississippi. After graduating from high school, he joined the U.S. Navy. On...
Cover of the January 1955 edition of the Mississippi Southern College Alumni News. Photograph features the ground breaking for the new College Union building. President R. C. Cook, "Spud" Bradley, and Moran M. Pope turn the first spade of dirt.
Photograph of Dr. R.C. Cook (President Mississippi Southern College), Mrs. Bonnibel Cook, Miss Anna Roberts (Librarian Mississippi Southern College), Miss Willa Bolton (Geography Professor) and Miss Mary Pulley (Registrar Mississippi Southern...
Photograph of a party at the president's home hosted by Dr. and Mrs. R.C. Cook. Dr. Cook is seen on the right. The home was later renamed Ogletree Alumni House.
Photograph of Tom Bishop (left) receiving the All-American Basketball Award from President R. C. Cook, circa 1951. This photo can also be found in the 1952 Southerner yearbook on page 155.
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).
Photograph of University Presidents, Dr. R.C. Cook (1945-1954) Dr. William D. McCain (1955-1975) and Dr. R.A. McLemore (January 1 - August 17 1955); 5 x 7
Photograph of the Mississippi Southern College marching band spelling out "Cook" on Faulkner Field. President and Mrs. R.C. Cook are seated on a stand in the foreground; 5 x 4
