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 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.; Two interviews conducted on June 18, 1992 and March 9, 1993 with Mr. C.B. "Buddie" Newman at his home in Valley Park, Mississippi. Newman was born on May 8, 1921 in Valley Park, Mississippi. In 1942, he left his job with the Southern...
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 March 19, 1975 with Otho Monroe (born 1912). Mr. Monroe was superintendent of the Senatobia School District from 1949 until 1968, when he resigned in protest of school desegregation.
From the Thigpen (S.G.) Papers. Photograph of Thigpen Hardware Co. appliance aisle. Caption on back reads: “Thigpen Hardware Company - “Peanut Day.” Photo Taken by Uncle Tate Thigpen.” Interior of Thigpen Hardware Co. with many people,...
From the Thigpen (S.G.) Papers. Photograph of Thigpen Hardware Co. Interior. Caption on back reads: “Thigpen Hardware Company - “Peanut Day.” Photo Taken by Uncle Tate Thigpen.” Interior of Thigpen Hardware Co. with many people, including...
From the Thigpen (S.G.) Papers. Photograph of the interior of Thigpen Hardware Store. Caption on back reads: “Thigpen Hardware Company - “Peanut Day.” Photo Taken by Uncle Tate Thigpen.” Photograph taken from in the back of the Thigpen...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Two men are on a girder that is suspended from above by a wire and large hook. The girder is labeled, "State building programs" and is not flat but tilted up on one end. The man...
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...
Oral history.; Mr. John Sherman Crubaugh was born April 12, 1913. During his college years at Mississippi State, from 1931, he worked to pay for his education. After he received a B.S. degree and an M.Ed. degree from Mississippi State University,...
Oral history.; Orene Ellis Farese was born May 20, 1916, in Choctaw County, Mississippi. She attended a local public schools, Holmes Junior College, and Blue Mountain College. She began her professional career as a high school English teacher. When...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on July 19, 1978 with Mr. W.S. Griffin at his home in Jackson, Mississippi. Griffin was born on October 15, 1913 near Mantee, Mississippi, in Webster County. In 1936, he accepted a position as a teacher and coach...
Oral history.; Ms. Eleanora Hayes was born on May 28, 1930, in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. She grew up on her father's farm in Catahoula, Mississippi. During winter months, she and her siblings attended school, and during the six-month...
From the Ellzey (Wesley James) Papers. A teaching certificate issued by the Pike County (Miss.) Superintendent of Education, T.E. Tate, recognizing that Wesley James Ellzey was certified to teach for a year, starting in June 1875.
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; The letter from the personnel of the Freedom Information Center seeks to raise sufficient funds to stay in operation after March 25, 1966.
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
From the Thigpen (S.G.) Papers. Photograph of an aerial shot of Picayune High School and stadium. The junior high school is in the upper right. Can be found in the book Next Door to Heaven by S. G. Thigpen, with the caption, "Picayune High School...
From the Thigpen (S.G.) Papers. Photograph of the Picayune high school auditorium, taken from the back of the auditorium. Can be found in the book Next Door to Heaven by S. G. Thigpen, with the caption, "Inside the new modern high school auditorium...
From the Thigpen (S.G.) Papers. Photograph of an automobile driving down a rural road. Can be found in the book Next Door to Heaven by S. G. Thigpen, with the caption, "A rural road out from Picayune in tung blossom time."
