Schedule of events for the 75th anniversary and homecoming activities. Events include an academic fair, pep rally, performance by George Carlin, and the football game against Florida State University.
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...
Thank you letter from Dr. Walter Washington, President of Alcorn State University, to Dr. Aubrey K. Lucas and the University of Southern Mississippi for the renaming of Kennard-Washington Hall.
Photograph of basketball forward Vandarel Jones playing during a game against Marquette University. Featured in the 1999-2000 Southern Miss Basketball Media Guide on page 69.
Photograph of Portland McCaskill during a basketball game against Memphis State University. [McCaskill finished her career in 1985 and was the most prolific scorer and rebounder in the history of women's basketball at the University of Southern...
Photograph of Ben Garry during a football game against Auburn University. Garry rushed for more yards than any player in Mississippi college football history. Photograph also found on page 143 of Chester M. Morgan's Dearly bought, deeply treasured,...
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...
Photograph of the March 31, 1987, article in Student printz about the National Invitation Tournament basketball victory over La Salle University. The headline reads, "Eagle fever riding high."
Photograph of head basketball coach James Green at courtside watching the game against Oral Roberts University. Featured in the 1998 Southerner yearbook on page 271.
Oral history.; Ms. Vera Penney Gong was born on May 19, 1950, in San Francisco, California after her family had emigrated from China. Ms. Gong grew up in Clarksdale, Mississippi where her family owned a grocery store. As she was growing up, Ms....
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.; On September 13, 1924, Mr. Martin Thomas King, Jr., was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi. As a child, Mr. King witnessed the flood of 1927. Mr. King attended public school in Vicksburg. From 1942 to 1946, Mr. King served in the Navy in...
