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 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.; An interview conducted on June 25, 2007 with Lieutenant General John C. ""Clark"" Griffith. General Griffith describes his experiences during and after Hurricane Katrina, as well as his involvement in commissions planning for the...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on June 18, 2007 with Margaret Alfonso, the Senior Chancery Court Judge for Hancock, Harrison, and Stone counties. She discusses her experience with Hurricane Katrina on the Gulf Coast.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on February 21, 2007 with Ruth Horn, a long-time Moss Point, Mississippi, resident who describes her experiences surrounding Hurricane Katrina on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
A four-page typed letter to the Editor of the Kalamazoo Gazette from Joe Ellin [?], dated August 1, 1964. The letter describes the public school system in Hattiesburg and Forrest County, Mississippi. Integration and segregation in the schools and...
Oral history.; An interview with Sara Hamilton conducted on June 19, 2007. A volunteer project manager, Ms. Hamilton relocated from Chicago to Biloxi after Hurricane Katrina to continue working on Gulf Coast relief efforts.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on November 12, 1997 with Winifred Green (born 1937). After earning a bachelor's degree in English from Millsaps College in 1963, Mrs. Green and four other women formed Mississippians for Public Education, one...
Oral history.; An interview on February 21, 2007 conducted with John Lindgren, an engineer at Ingalls Shipbuilding Co., who describes his experiences during Hurricane Katrina in Pascagoula, MS, including rebuilding his home.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on June 6, 2006 with Jeff Weathersby, salesman at Pat Peck Honda in Gulfport, Mississippi. Mr. Weathersby describes Hurricane Katrina's destruction from Hattiesburg down to the Mississippi Coast.
Oral history.; The Honorable Frank D. Barber was born on April 2, 1929, in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Barber attended the University of Mississippi for a year before volunteering for the U.S. Army which involved National Guard work in the U.S. and...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on June 7, 1999 with Terri Shaw (born 1940). Ms. Shaw graduated from Antioch College in Yellow springs, Ohio, in 1963, then went to work for the Buffalo (NY) Courier-Express before spending the summer in...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on October 21, 1999 with Dr. Sandra Adickes (born 1933). In 1963, Dr. Adickes taught African-Americans in freedom school efforts in Prince Edward County, Virginia. In 1964, she was recruited to teach in...
Oral history.; Reverend Robert James Jamison was born on May 28, 1936, and lived in both St. Louis, Missouri, and the community of Shake Rag in Tupelo, Mississippi. Reverend Jamison earned money in high school from carpentry and upon graduation, he...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on July 28, 1981 with Reverend Clinton Collier at the Methodist Church in Morton, Mississippi. Collier was born on August 24, 1910 [i.e. 1909] in rural Neshoba County. After completing the eighth grade, which...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on July 28, 1981 with Reverend Clinton Collier at the Methodist Church in Morton, Mississippi. Collier was born on August 24, 1909 in rural Neshoba County. After completing the eighth grade, which was as high as...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on October 28 and November 2, 1976 with Professor Charles G. Marx at the University of Southern Mississippi Campus in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Marx was born on November 23, 1932 in McComb, Mississippi. ...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on August 20, 1997 and August 28, 1997 with Peter H. Stewart (born 1934). He began teaching school in Edwards, Mississippi, in the fall of 1961. In August 1969, he worked for Friends of Children, a Head Start...
Oral history.; Percy Brooks was born on November 15, 1911 to a family of farmers. His grandfather had been freed from slavery during the Civil War, and afterwards sharecropped and rented land to save money to buy eighty acres in 1909. Mr. Brooks...
