Oral history.; An interview conducted on May 9, 2007 with Perry and Bobbye Gibson. Long-time residents of the Gulf Coast, they discuss their ties to the community of Bay St. Louis as well as their experiences during and after Hurricane Katrina.
A handwritten list of Freedom Summer volunteers and staff in Hattiesburg written by Joe Ellin. The list gives the volunteers' religion, race, approximate age, and their work site. There are tally marks for the statistics on the lower right corner....
Oral history.; Mr. Palmer E. Foster was born in Jackson, Tennessee, and moved with his family to Ripley, Mississippi. After his high school graduation, he spent four years in the Army during World War II. Then he entered Rust College and in 1949...
Oral history.; Ms. Sarah Bernice Arnold was born January 25, 1913, in Saltillo, Mississippi. She lived through the Depression and the closing of the banks in the 1930s, at which time she went to work sewing in a factory in Tupelo. Her husband,...
Running summary of various incidents that occurred during the Mississippi Freedom Project, Summer 1964. Organized chronologically, each entry gives the city and the incident. Includes instances of harassment, hostility, and violence against civil...
Oral history.; Mrs. Sarah Harris Ruffin was born on April 15, 1914. Her parents came to Hattiesburg in the early 1900s. When young, Mrs. Ruffin did domestic and warehouse work. In 1949, she began working at the Brooklyn Jewish Hospital as a nurse's...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on August 21, 1972 with the Honorable Russell C. Davis in his office in Jackson, Mississippi. He was born in Rockville, Maryland. After completing two years at the University of Maryland, Davis took employment...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on September 20, 1979 with Dr. Dewey Lane at the Robinson Lane Surgical Clinic in Pascagoula, Mississippi. Lane was born on September 27, 1934 in Starkville, Mississippi. He attended Vanderbilt University from...
Oral history.; Four interviews conducted on June 11, September 26, October 10, and November 21, 1985 with Ms. Ruby Magee in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Magee was born on August 12, 1940 in Tylertown, Mississippi. In 1962, she received a BA in...
Fifteen-page typescript of a journal kept by Sandra Adickes during her stay in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, as a volunteer in the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project of 1964. The journal is dated July 10 - August 20, 1964. Adickes discusses her work as...
From the Hamlett (Ed) White Folks Project Collection. In Susan Solf's letter to Ed [Hamlett], Mississippi state director of the White Folks Project (WFP), she writes of her inability to raise enough money to travel to the training session as the...
From the Hamlett (Ed) White Folks Project Collection. Susan Solf writes to Ed [Hamlett], state director of the White Folks Project (WFP), that despite strong pressure from her father, she will participate in the Mississippi Freedom Project. Two...
From the McLoughlin Brothers Papers. 4-part color separation (black, blue, red and yellow) for page 13 from Bobby Beaver by Susan Wheeler, illustrated by Sari (Springfield: McLoughlin Bros., 1945) Westfield classics #68, from the books series of...
From the McLoughlin Brothers Papers. 4-part color separation (black, blue, red and yellow) for page 17 from Bobby Beaver by Susan Wheeler, illustrated by Sari (Springfield: McLoughlin Bros., 1945) Westfield classics #68, from the books series of...
From the McLoughlin Brothers Papers. 4-part color separation (black, blue, red and yellow) for page 25 from Bobby Beaver by Susan Wheeler, illustrated by Sari (Springfield: McLoughlin Bros., 1945) Westfield classics #68, from the books series of...
From the McLoughlin Brothers Papers. 4-part color separation (black, blue, red and yellow) for page 29 from Bobby Beaver by Susan Wheeler, illustrated by Sari (Springfield: McLoughlin Bros., 1945) Westfield classics #68, from the books series of...
From the McLoughlin Brothers Papers. 4-part color separation (black, blue, red and yellow) for page 32 from Bobby Beaver by Susan Wheeler, illustrated by Sari (Springfield: McLoughlin Bros., 1945) Westfield classics #68, from the books series of...
From the McLoughlin Brothers Papers. 4-part color separation (black, blue, red and yellow) for page 36 from Bobby Beaver by Susan Wheeler, illustrated by Sari (Springfield: McLoughlin Bros., 1945) Westfield classics #68, from the books series of...
