Oral history.; Mr. Monroe (Bill) Winston was born September 12, 1907, in Caseyville, Lincoln County, Mississippi. His parents were sharecroppers on the Red Star plantation, the same plantation where his grandmother had been a slave. Mr. Winston...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on September 10, 1993 with Herman Cowan Glazier Jr. (born 1918). Glazier's service record in Mississippi government spans forty-five years from 1946 to 1987. This includes his serving as exectutive assistant to...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on October 22, 1996 with Mrs. Josephine Clemons Bell (born 1909). Her teaching career in elementary education in the public school of Natchez-Adams County spans twenty-nine and a half years. After retiring in...
From the McGuffey's Reading Charts. A chart intended to teach students how to read the English language. Lesson 17: Rose has a bird in a cage. She can hear him sing. Rose! let him sing a sweet song to me. Lesson VIII is on the reverse side.
From the McGuffey's Reading Charts. A chart intended to teach students how to read the English language. Lesson 3: Rap! rap! Dan has a pan. Ann had a pan. Dan has Nat's hat. Lesson XXII is on the reverse side.
From the McGuffey's Reading Charts. A chart intended to teach students how to read the English language. Lesson 18: Mary is with Dan by the pond. She will not go too near. See! Dan has my boat. Lesson VII is on the reverse side.
From the McGuffey's Reading Charts. A chart intended to teach students how to read the English language. Lesson 12: Look at Bun. Is he not fat? See! he has a nut. Bun will crack it. He has a nest in the old tree on the hill. Lesson XIII is on the...
From the McGuffey's Reading Charts. A chart intended to teach students how to read the English language. Lesson 7: Ned is on his nag. See the nag trot! Don is Ned's dog. He is a good dog. Lesson XVIII is on the reverse side.
From the McGuffey's Reading Charts. A chart intended to teach students how to read the English language. Lesson 22: Come with me, Sue, to the pond, and see the swans. We will toss them some cake. Yes, I will go with you. Lesson III is on the...
From the McGuffey's Reading Charts. A chart intended to teach students how to read the English language. Lesson 5: Ann sees a frog. It is on a log. Hop, frog! See! it hops. Lesson XX is on the reverse side.
From the McGuffey's Reading Charts. A chart intended to teach students how to read the English language. Lesson 8: I see a pig. The pig ran from a dog. Is this a fat pig? It is a fat pig. Lesson XVII is on the reverse side.
From the McGuffey's Reading Charts. A chart intended to teach students how to read the English language. Lesson 13: An old man sits down on the shore. He looks at the sea and is glad. Nell looks up at him. Lesson XII is on the reverse side.
From the McGuffey's Reading Charts. A chart intended to teach students how to read the English language. Lesson 20: The cat is on the wall. Puss sees a bird; it is in the tree. She can not catch the bird; it is too high. Lesson V is on the reverse...
From the McGuffey's Reading Charts. A chart intended to teach students how to read the English language. Lesson 9: See Ned's old hen! The nest has ten eggs in it. Nell will get the eggs. Lesson XVI is on the reverse side.
From the McGuffey's Reading Charts. A chart intended to teach students how to read the English language. Lesson 16: See the boys on their sled! It is fun to slide down hill. Ann and Nell can not get on the sled. Lesson IX is on the reverse side.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher.President Lyndon Johnson is reading a book titled "Budget figures for next fiscal year," with the aid of bifocals. Three bookmarks in the pages are labeled "Deficit." The bifocal...
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...
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.; Angela Georgian was born in Greece in 1920 and emigrated to the United States in 1937. She and her mother and sister joined her father in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, where he had opened a small restaurant, Gus's Caf*. In 1947, Mrs....
Oral history.; Ms. Juno Gwendolyn Nichols-de Marks was born November 25, 1924, in Biloxi, Mississippi. Ms. Nichols-de Marks graduated from Biloxi Colored High School in 1941 at which time she entered Alcorn University. In 1945 she was elected Miss...
