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.; Interviews conducted on May 11 and 12, 1992 with James C. Simpson (1930-1994). Simpson was elected to the Mississippi House of Representatives from Harrison County in 1964. He served six more consecutive terms covering more than 20...
From the Adams (Victoria Gray) Papers. Copy of a typewritten letter from "The FDP Congresswoman"(Victoria Gray) to Congressman William Fitts Ryan. Gray expresses appreciation on behalf of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) for...
