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 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...
Finding aid for manuscript collection.; Items relating to Wallace Roberts and his involvement in the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project. Collection includes manuscripts of articles and letters written by Roberts; scanned images of photographs;...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on August 30, 1978 with Thomas Jefferson Tubb (born 1899). Mr. Tubb served as chairman of the Clay County Executive Committee for 47 years from 1928 to 1975 and during the Dixiecrat movement from 1950 to 1956....
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
Photograph of university President Aubrey Lucas, M. M. Roberts, and Governor Cliff Finch, taken at the dedication of M. M. Roberts Stadium. This photo can also be found in the September 28, 1976, Student Printz and in Chester M. Morgan's book,...
Oral history.; Charles C. Jacobs Jr. was born in Greenville, Mississippi, on January 13, 1921. Mr. Jacobs attended the University of Mississippi and returned to its law school after serving as a Marine during World War II. During his career, he was...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on April 8 and 13, 1982 with Mr. E. Hammond Smith at his home in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Smith was born on December 17, 1894 in Bladen Springs, Alabama. His family moved to Hattiesburg, Mississippi and...
Photograph of adults and children standing in front of the Roberts School, a one room schoolhouse in Jackson County, Mississippi. The Roberts School now stands in the courtyard of Owings-McQuagge Hall. [See related file: mus.rg002.u0274p]
Photograph of adults and children standing in front of the Roberts School, a one room schoolhouse in Jackson County, Mississippi. The Roberts School now stands in the courtyard of Owings-McQuagge Hall. Photograph also found in Chester M. Morgan's...
Photograph of Lee Roberts. Dropping beach to pass and eyeing receiver, Sherrod Gideon, quarterback, Lee Roberts, gets ready to fire one of his three touchdowns against the University of Nevada. Also found in the 1998 Southerner yearbook on page 259.
Photograph of the Roberts School, a one room schoolhouse from Jackson County which now stands in the courtyard of Owings-McQuagge Hall. Featured in the 1992 Southerner yearbook on page 309.
Photograph of M. M. Roberts Stadium, the playing field, and the full stands during the football game against Jackson State University on October 31, 1987. Photograph taken from the south end, from the top of an observation stand. Featured in the...
Photograph of university President Shelby Thames in the president's box of M. M. Roberts stadium. Thames is looking down on the field. Two unidentified men are in the background. Featured in the Talon, vol. 56, no. 1 (Summer 2002) on page 21.
