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.; An interview conducted on October 27, 2005 with Louis Gomez. A registered nurse with American Medical Response, Mr. Gomez describes his responsibility for managing a special-needs shelter in Biloxi, Mississippi during Hurricane...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on November 3, 2005 with Barbra Kay ""Babs"" Faulk. Director of the South Central Mississippi Chapter of the American Red Cross, Ms. Faulk discusses her experiences during and after Hurricane Katrina.
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 March 28, 2006 with Alison Bass, a manager at Biloxi Grand Casino. She describes her experience before, during, and after Hurricane Katrina.
Oral history.; Interview conducted on July 28, 1981 with Reverend Clinton Collier at the Methodist Church in Morton, Mississippi. Collier was born on August 24, 1909 in rural Neshoba County. After completing the eighth grade, which was as high as...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on May 17, 2006 with Ronald J. Baker, a commercial fisherman in Biloxi, MS. Mr. Baker describes the hurricane's impact on his neighborhood, his personal business, and the shrimping industry in general.
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.; Robert Elton Cox was born February 6, 1917, at Mannsdale, Mississippi in Madison County. He attended school in Madison and graduated from Millsaps College in Jackson. He taught and coached for two years before going into the service....
Oral history.; An interview conducted on February 22, 2007 with Sarah McPherson, an employee at the Pascagoula Public Library, who describes Hurricane Katrina's devastation on the town, the relief efforts, and rebuilding after the storm.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on February 21, 2007 with Ruth Horn, a long-time Moss Point, Mississippi, resident who describes her experiences surrounding Hurricane Katrina on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on February 21, 2007 with Tom Higgins, a retired shipyard manager and author of Sunshine on my Shoulders, a first-person narration of life after Hurricane Katrina. He describes his experience in Pascagoula,...
Oral history.; Mrs. Laura Mae Davenport was born in Gholson, Mississippi, on October 22, 1908. She attended the Noxubee County Agricultural High School before moving to Shuqualak to finish high school in 1927. She began a teaching career and...
Oral history.; Gwin E. Douglas was born on November 9, 1923, in State Line, Mississippi. Douglas graduated from Leakesville High School in 1942 and worked briefly with his father in the naval store and the timber businesses until he was drafted...
Oral history.; Tommie Dukes Sr. was born in 1906 in Richardson, Mississippi, a town that no longer exists. Mr. Dukes played baseball at Alcorn College and then played for semi-pro and Negro League teams. Among other teams, he played for the Memphis...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 24, 1981 with Mr. Dave L. Dunaway at his office in Greenville, Mississippi. Dunaway was born on January 2, 1927 near the Enon community in Walthall County, Mississippi. Following his discharge from the...
Oral history.; Mr. King T. Evans was born on March 19, 1913 near Uniontown, Alabama, in Perry County. In 1925, Mr. Evans moved to Mississippi with his parents. His father was a mechanic and farmer. For a brief period, Mr. Evans attended the...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on June 24, 1998 with J.C. Fairley, Mamie Phillips, and Charles Phillips, who were all active in the NAACP during the civil rights movement of the 1950s and the 1960s.
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...
