From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A government building is shown in the lower half of the cartoon, with "Administration of justice is the foundation of liberty" across the pediment. "Charges of a conspiracy to...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Hattiesburg residents Hettie Marsh and Geraldine Shaw listen to a traveling folk singer play his guitar in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer, 1964. Many folk singers visited the...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; Volume 2 of the Freedom Flame includes articles by McEvans High School students in Shaw, Mississippi. The articles report the work that members of the Mississippi Student Union (MSU) are doing...
Rough draft of an article by Terri Shaw submitted to The Antiochian, the alumni publication of Antioch College. It recounts Shaw's experiences as a Freedom Summer volunteer in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, in 1964. Shaw discusses the training session...
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...
From the Shaw (Terri) Freedom Summer Collection. Program for the Free Southern Theatre production of Martin Duberman's In White America. The program lists the cast and crew and provides background information about the play and Free Southern...
Finding aid for manuscript collection. ; Articles by Shaw, and other materials documenting Mississippi Freedom Summer, 1964. For the full finding aid, see http://www.lib.usm.edu/~archives/m326.htm.
From the Kitson (John) Letters. Letter to Richard Shaw of Gillingham, Norfolk. The front contains a document from the Stamp Office dated 6 July 1831, requesting unpaid duties from the will of Daniel Pettet. The letter, dated 2 August 1832, is a...
From the Hamlett (Ed) White Folks Project Collection. Shaw writes that, despite his use of a wheelchair, he is willing to work in any capacity that Ed Hamlett, state director of the White Folks Project (WFP), deems appropriate.
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Typewritten letter from Mary Sue (last name unknown) to friends, dated February 1, 1965, in which she explains the intimidation and fear that surrounds African Americans and civil rights...
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. A typed letter from Mary Sue Gellatly of Shaw, Mississippi (Bolivar County) and summer volunteer of the Mississippi Freedom Labor Union in that same city discusses specific amounts and types of...
A letter from Milton W. Shaw, a corporal with the 5th Iowa Volunteers, to his friend Alf Giague in Birmingham, Iowa. Shaw was on board the naval transport Von Phul with Grant's troops who, in early 1863, entered the Yazoo Pass and attempted to...
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...
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
Oral history.; Born on March 28, 1914, Dr. Eleanor Byrd Walters was born in Gunnison, Mississippi. In 1934, she received her B.S. in education from Delta State Teachers College and went on to earn several advanced degrees. From 1934 through 1943...
Oral history.; The family of Dr. Isaac Thomas moved to Hattiesburg from Beaumont, Perry County, Mississippi, in 1935. He entered Eureka High School that year, graduating in 1938, one of a class of thirty three. Dr. Thomas stresses how important...
Oral history.; On April 8, 1927, Dr. Pete Walker was born in Lumberton, Mississippi. When Dr. Walker was four years old, his mother passed away. As a child, Dr. Walker worked in his father's cafes. Dr. Walker attended Jones County Junior College...
Oral history.; Dr. S. Jay McDuffie was born in Nettleton, Mississippi, and grew up in Tupelo. He earned a B.S. degree at Mississippi State University, entered the U.S. Public Health Service during World War II and later earned his medical...
