Oral history.; An interview conducted on February 21, 2007 with Aimee Gautier-Dugger, who describes her experience waiting out the storm in Gautier, the city her ancestors founded, and the struggle to regroup after the storm.
A letter from Milton W. Shaw, a corporal with the 5th Iowa Volunteers, to his friend Alf Giague in Birmingham, Iowa. Shaw was on board the naval transport Von Phul with Grant's troops who, in early 1863, entered the Yazoo Pass and attempted to...
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 June 7, 1999 with Terri Shaw (born 1940). Ms. Shaw graduated from Antioch College in Yellow springs, Ohio, in 1963, then went to work for the Buffalo (NY) Courier-Express before spending the summer in...
Finding aid for manuscript collection. ; The collection consists of a four-page typewritten report authored by Rev. Faulconer in November 2000 concernig his work as a Freedom Summer volunteer in 1964. The report describes his experience...
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Illustrations by Arpad Schmidhammer. Published in Mainz, Germany, by Verlag von Jos. Scholz, sometime between 1900 and 1920. Text in Sütterlin font. Part of the Scholz' Künstler-Bilderbücher...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; A group of Freedom Summer volunteers stand in front of local civil rights leader J.C. Fairley's car, on the bumper of which is a sticker that reads "Register Now." Those identified in the...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Local teenager Doug Smith drives one of Vernon Dahmer's tractors pulling a flat bed hauling group of Freedom Summer volunteers. The group includes Arthur Reese (holding a radio), Terri Shaw...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on June 5, 1999 with Sheila Michaels (born 1939). She attended the College of William and Mary, but was suspended for her political and racial opinions while on the school's newspaper board. In 1961, she joined...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on October 13, 1993 with Mr. Kenneth O. Williams at the new state capitol building in Jackson, Mississippi. Williams was born on January 18, 1924 in Clarksdale, Mississippi. He received a BA in political science...
Oral history.; Ms. Vonciel Harris was born November 19, 1912, in Thomaston, Alabama. Her parents were Jim and Rachel Tims. She attended nursing school in Montgomery, Alabama. After finishing nursing school, she married Mr. Jimmy Harris and moved...
Oral history.; Mr. O.W. Reily Jr. was born on June 17, 1924, in Shreveport, Louisiana. As a child, he attended public school in Louisiana and was active in sports, including track, basketball, and boxing. From October, 1941, through November,...
Oral history.; Billie Rossie Tonos was born November 12, 1924, in Shaw, Mississippi, to Nazira Hallal Rossie and Sam Rossie, Americans of Lebanese descent. In May of 1942, she graduated from Shaw High School and enrolled at Delta State Teachers...
