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.; 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...
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.
Photograph (from a slide) of the dreaded dot posters. During home basketball games, fans were given black and gold posters that they waved when the opposing team shot free throws.
Photograph (from a color slide) of a basketball game against Holy Cross College. [Presumed to be after the 1987 NIT win, based on the poster at right center.]
Photograph (color slide) of an aerial view of campus. [Photograph taken after Johnson Science Tower was built and before construction began on Roberts stadium.]
