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 February 19, 2009 with George Bass, Chief of Long Beach Fire Department. He talks about losing his home and his other experiences in Long Beach during and after Hurricane Katrina.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on May 17, 2006 with Ronald J. Baker, a commercial fisherman in Biloxi, MS. Mr. Baker describes the hurricane's impact on his neighborhood, his personal business, and the shrimping industry in general.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on January 21, 2006 with Natalie C. Brown. Miss Brown lived near the Tulane campus during Hurricane Katrina and describes her evacuation and return to the city.
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 May 8, 1996 with voter registration activist Jan Handke (born May 10, 1945). Ms. Handke was a part of the Freedom Summer Project, becoming occupied with voter registration in Vicksburg and working in the...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on July 31, 1981 with Mr. Cecil Shelton at the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Shelton was born on September 1, 1945 in Gore Springs, Mississippi. After graduating high school in...
Oral history.; Reverend F.T. (Ted) Shepherd was born July 10, 1924, in Greenville, Mississippi. In 1942, he was graduated from Greenville High School. During World War II he served in the armed forces. He graduated from Delta State Teachers...
From the Kate Greenaway Papers. Autograph letter signed. 3 pp. on 1 folded leaf. (14 x 9 cm.) To Herbert [Evans] from Kate Greenaway dated Sunday Evening, circa 1879-1884.
A two-page photocopied and typed letter from Nancy and Joe Ellin to "Mom and Dad" [Joe's parents] dated July 3, [1964]. The letter describes preparations for the Freedom Schools and the compiling of a "Freedom Booklet." The Ellins talk of the area...
Twenty-page typescript of the diary of Jinny Glass, dated August 7, 1964, through August 25, 1964. Glass was a Freedom Summer volunteer from California who worked at the Palmer's Crossing Community Center, south of Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
From the Camp McCain, Mississippi World War II Slides. Photograph (from a color slide) of the view of the company area from the officers quarters at Camp McCain, near Grenada, Mississippi, in the Spring of 1943. Photograph taken by Lt. Omer Austin...
From the Camp McCain, Mississippi World War II Slides. Photograph (from a color slide) of Major Park on his "10-minute" break at Camp McCain, near Grenada, Mississippi, in the Spring of 1943. Photograph taken by Lt. Omer Austin Heacox, who was with...
From the Camp McCain, Mississippi World War II Slides. Photograph (from a color slide) of the company taking a "10-minute break" at Camp McCain, near Grenada, Mississippi, in the Spring of 1943. Photograph taken by Lt. Omer Austin Heacox, who was...
From the Camp McCain, Mississippi World War II Slides. Photograph (from a color slide) of the H.Q. Co. 502nd MP BN Training Area at Camp McCain, near Grenada, Mississippi, in the Spring of 1943. Photograph taken by Lt. Omer Austin Heacox, who was...
From the Camp McCain, Mississippi World War II Slides. Photograph (from a color slide) of the sawdust pit used for training in Judo at Camp McCain, near Grenada, Mississippi, in the Spring of 1943. Photograph taken by Lt. Omer Austin Heacox, who...
From the Camp McCain, Mississippi World War II Slides. Photograph (from a color slide) entitled "Come and Get It" of the mess line at Camp McCain, near Grenada, Mississippi, in the Spring of 1943. Photograph taken by Lt. Omer Austin Heacox, who was...
From the Camp McCain, Mississippi World War II Slides. Photograph (from a color slide) of the company returning after a hike to Camp McCain, near Grenada, Mississippi, in the Spring of 1943. Photograph taken by Lt. Omer Austin Heacox, who was with...
From the Camp McCain, Mississippi World War II Slides. Photograph (from a color slide) of the company on the first part of an all day hike at Camp McCain, near Grenada, Mississippi, in the Spring of 1943. Photograph taken by Lt. Omer Austin Heacox,...
From the Camp McCain, Mississippi World War II Slides. Photograph (from a color slide) of a music and bull horn session at Camp McCain, near Grenada, Mississippi, in the Spring of 1943. Photograph taken by Lt. Omer Austin Heacox, who was with the...
