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 August 2, 2007 and October 9, 2007 with Charles Benvenutti, a CPA in Bay St. Louis, MS. He describes his experience during and after Hurricane Katrina.
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.; Interview conducted on July 30, 1980 with Mr. Erle Johnston at his home in Forest, Mississippi. Johnston was born on October 10, 1917 in Garyville, Louisiana. In 1941, he moved Forest, Mississippi and bought the fledgling newspaper,...
Oral history.; Discusses Clarence Magee's family, his responsibilities on the farm, and first memories of racism. Talks about the African American schools around Columbia, Mississippi. Describes his attempts to register to vote in Hattiesburg and...
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.; Born on October 20, 1939, in Sandy Ridge, Lowndes County, Alabama, Mr. Loyce Searight moved with his family to Biloxi, Mississippi, in March of 1947. He graduated from M.F. Nichols High School and went on to earn several other...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 26, 1977 with William Joel Blass (born 1917). As a lawyer in 1952, he successfully prosecuted the Boyce Holleman case by proving that voter fraud had kept Holleman from winning. Beginning in 1953, he...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on August 26, 1975 with Earl W. Banks, 1905-1986. He enrolled at Alcorn University in Lorman, Mississippi, for one year, then transferred to Jackson State University where he completed high school. He continued...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on July 12, 1973 with Mr. Jerry Clower at his office in Yazoo City, Mississippi. Clower was born in 1926 at Route Four, Liberty, Mississippi. After graduating from high school, he joined the U.S. Navy. On...
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Illustrated by Walter Crane. Published in London and New York by George Routledge and Sons, circa 1874. Cover title. Text on inside of front and back covers. List of other titles in series on...
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. By Grace C. Floyd. Published in London and New York by Raphael Tuck & Sons, in 1895. Cover title. "Printed in Bavaria"--Cover. Donated with the Harer Collection. Part of the Father Tuck's...
From the Adams County Police & Miscellaneous County Records. Financial statement documenting supplies purchased from H. Freeman & Sons, June- October 1836.
Copy of a typewritten newsletter written in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, from Rabbi Charles and Anna Mantinband to friends, dated December 1954. Discusses their efforts to build a Jewish life in the South, the impact of the May 1954 Supreme Court...
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of logs on a truck for Joe N. Miles and Sons Lumber of Lumberton, Mississippi.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of men standing next to a truck of logs for Joe N. Miles and Sons Lumber of Lumberton, Mississippi.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of a tree that has been cut for Joe N. Miles and Sons Lumber of Lumberton, Mississippi.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of logs being loaded onto a truck for Joe N. Miles and Sons Lumber of Lumberton, Mississippi.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of logs being loaded onto a truck for Joe N. Miles and Sons Lumber of Lumberton, Mississippi.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of a group of loggers standing by a fallen tree for Joe N. Miles and Sons Lumber of Lumberton, Mississippi.
