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.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on August 2, 2007 and October 9, 2007 with Edmond Boudreaux, Jr., a longtime Mississippi Gulf Coast resident and active local historian of the region. Mr. Boudreaux discusses the impact of Hurricane Katrina on...
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 February 26, 1974 with Mr. Brodie Crump at his home in Greenville, Mississippi. Crump was born in 1898 in Greenville, Mississippi. After attending Mississippi A&M College, now Mississippi State University,...
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 October 28, 1993 with Judge Michael L. Carr (born 1920). He moved to Mississippi when he received an appointment to serve as law clerk to Edwin R. Holmes, U.S. circuit judge for the Fifth Circuit Court of...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on August 27, 1993 with Frank Ellis Smith at his bookstore in Jackson, Mississippi. Smith was born on February 21, 1918 in Sidon, Mississippi. He is a six-term U.S. representative from Mississippi who is best...
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,...
From the Kate Greenaway Papers. Ink drawings (18 x 25 cm.) Titled "Ella" dated 1879. 21 different drawings of young girl's head on one piece of paper. Illustration not used in a publication.
From the Kate Greenaway Papers. Pencil, pastel and watercolor. Three women with flower garlands. Titled "Welcome." Signed and dated KG 7 May 1885; 8.5 x 4.5
From the Circus, Minstrel and Traveling Show Collection. An illustrated route book of Ringling Bros.' World's Greatest Shows for the 1894 season titled Beneath White Tents. The route book was a recorded account of the circus season, and was made...
From the Higdon (May) Collection. A newspaper from Blue Mountain, MS dated May 14, 1903. The paper features articles by the students and faculty of Blue Mountain College, including a lengthy article titled, "An Address", written by May Higdon’s...
From the Hilbun (Dr. B.B.) Collection. Panoramic photograph of a scene from a pageant titled, "Neka Camon" (New Spirit), which was presented at Mississippi Normal College on May 22, 1919. 8" x 33"
Yearbook page titled the Junior Class lists names of students and features pictures with a manual typewriter and dictation machine; 1952 Southerner, page 125
From the Hazelton (Margaret J.) Freedom Summer Collection; Two-page typewritten document titled Songs of the Southern Freedom Movement. Lyrics for eight songs reflect the political situation in the South with references to freedom riders, Ross...
From the East (P.D.) Collection. Typewritten copy of an address by P.D. East titled "On the attainment of distinction" and delivered at Vassar College in December 1962. East discusses his newspaper, The Petal paper, public and commercial...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; This document consists of three previously published news stories about Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) field secretary and Mississippi native Samuel Block. The articles...
From the Johnston (Erle E., Jr.) Papers; Report of the planned programs for Freedom Summer of 1964. Beginning with a quote from James Silver's book Mississippi: The Closed Society, the prospectus discusses issues such as goals of the Mississippi...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Vic Runtz. On the globe, people are drawn as groups in the shape of the continents. Some people are shown having fallen off the planet. A banner reads "Scientists claim Earth's population to...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; News release by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), dated May 26, 1964, and titled "Whites Organize to Oppose Mississippi Summer Project." Statement warns those...
