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...
An interview conducted on 06-08-1999 with Umoja Kwanguvu (born1925). Born William Jones, Umoja Kwanguvu actively protested and defied segregation while in the military, conducted protest activities against the prevailing Jim Crow attitudes and laws...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on August 29, 1991 with Mr. Richard Boyd and on September 29, 1992 with Mrs. Earline Boyd. Mr. Boyd was born on July 21, 1916 in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. He graduated from Eureka High School in 1935. ...
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 August 17, 1977 with Mrs. Betty Carter at her home in Greenville, Mississippi. Carter was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. She attended Newcomb College where she met her husband, Hodding Carter. Together they...
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of an aerial view of the Beverly Drive-In movie theater taken by Robert Waller; circa 1950s.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of the outside of the Dome Theater on Hardy Street for the Hadacol show. The Three Daring Daughters cartoon is on the marquee.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of the Hadacol show at the Dome Theater on Hardy Street. A Santa Clause and girl with a bicycle stand near a banner for the WFOR radio station.
Photograph of the Southern Arena Theatre (earlier called Southern Arena Playhouse) being moved to a location near the Education and Psychology Building. Theatre professor Gilbert Hartwig listens as another man talks about details of the move....
Yearbook photograph with the caption: "When Bennett [Auditorium] closed during the fall for renovations, the UAC [University Activities Council] had to find an alternate location for its popular movie series. The result -- they rented out the old...
Photograph of Southern Arena Theatre, also known as Hartwig Theater, a fixture on campus since 1946. The building was replaced with a parking lot when the new Theatre and Dance Building opened. Photograph also found in the 1999 Southerner yearbook...
From the AAEC Editorial Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A show poster outside a theater advertises "Britain and Argentina in Falklands forever mine--a smash." A theater employee is shouting, "Last chance to see a genuine 19th century war!"...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. The buildings all around a movie theater have been destroyed by rockets and bombs. Rubble is piled up, and the air is filled with planes and bullets. The marquee reads,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man stands in the ticket booth of the Capitol movie theater on the corner of a city street. The Louisiana state house is in the background. The marquee is labeled, “David...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. On a large poster (side of a building?) are two theatre masks. Instead of the smiling face of comedy and crying face of tragedy, there are two crying faces. A man in colonial...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on February 2, 1976 with James Cohen (born 1920). Since 1953, Mr. Cohen has been active in several civic associations in Hattiesburg and provides insight into the city's race relations and politics from the 1950s...
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...
