Oral history.; Mrs. Sarah Harris Ruffin was born on April 15, 1914. Her parents came to Hattiesburg in the early 1900s. When young, Mrs. Ruffin did domestic and warehouse work. In 1949, she began working at the Brooklyn Jewish Hospital as a nurse's...
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...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on June 26, 1979 with Mr. William J. Simmons at his office in Jackson, Mississippi. Simmons was born in 1916 in Utica, Mississippi. He attended Millsaps College and Mississippi College, graduating from the...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on July 8 and 23, 1980 with the Reverend Clay F. Lee at his study in Jackson, Mississippi. Lee was born on March 3, 1930 in Laurel, Mississippi. After graduating with his undergraduate degree from Millsaps...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on July 30, 1980 with Mr. Erle Johnston at his home in Forest, Mississippi. Johnston was born on October 10, 1917 in Garyville, Louisiana. In 1941, he moved Forest, Mississippi and bought the fledgling newspaper,...
Finding aid for manuscript collection. ; This collection consists of 17 photocopied newspaper clippings and one photocopied letter regarding the civil rights movement of the 1960s. For the full finding aid, see...
Oral history.; Mr. Larry Hudson Jr. was born on January 16, 1936, in Biloxi, Mississippi. After serving in the U.S. Army in Germany from 1958 to 1960, Larry Hudson Jr. earned a B.S. degree from Jackson State University in 1963. He worked in the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Roy Carless. Richard Nixon, dressed in safari clothing, wears two bandoleers of ammunition criss-crossed on his chest and a belt of ammunition around his waist. Holding a double-barreled...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Roy Peterson. Uncle Sam is in the process of shoveling rock out of the bottom of a deep hole that he has dug in a cliff face. His digging has left a precarious, barely supported tower of rock,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Roy Carless. A man wearing a business suit is in the turret of an armored tank, with his head holding up the hatch. The turret is marked with a Canadian flag, and the tank is labeled "Labor law...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Roy Carless. Richard Nixon's face appears on the body of the Statue of Liberty. His expression is grim. Instead of the torch, Nixon swirls a club in the air. The book in his other arm is...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Roy Carless. The prow of a ship labeled "U.S. oil" has broken through thick ice on a body of water and pulled up to an igloo that flies a Canadian flag. A man wearing a fur-lined parka and...
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs; Photograph of the 1926 Mississippi Central Railroad Team in the YMCA Twilight Baseball League, Pictured are: (back row) Dillard Hill, Kenneth Rawls, Smokie Harrington, Carl Wilder, Roy Ruble, Charlie...
From the Johnston (Erle E., Jr.) Papers; Notes regarding a telephone conversation between Roy Reed of the Atlanta Bureau of the New York Times and Bill Minor of the New Orleans Times Picayune, dated June 21, 1966. Briefly discusses mob violence at...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Memo from Council of Federated Organization leaders to national civil rights leaders and notable figures, including Martin Luther King, Harry Belafonte, Ossie Davis, Marlon Brando, and others....
Oral history.; Interview conducted on September 7, 1996 with civil rights voting registration activist and Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) field secretary Lawrence Guyot (born 1939). He was also the chairman and delegate of the...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on April 14, 1972 and January 25, 1973 with Mississippi civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977). Hamer was a leading figure in the MFDP. She is best known for her 1964 national television...
Transcribed copy of affidavits describing incidents of harassment and violence in Mississippi during the summer of 1964, not including statements about events considered widely publicized.
Oral history.; Mr. Vernon Jackson grew up in Biloxi, Mississippi. Until 1955 he attended Our Mother of Sorrows Catholic School; he then attended Nichols High School and was graduated from there. He was inducted into the Army in 1965 and served...
