Photograph of the bon voyage party for Pauline Rogers Stout. Seated: Mrs. William D. McCain, Dr. William D. McCain, Pauline Stout, Jessie Morrison. Standing: Roger B. Johnson, Betty Cooley, Cathy Adams, Peggy Layman, Carolyn Mawk, Roger Johnson,...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on October 24, 1978 with Mr. Nathaniel H. Lewis at his home in McComb, Mississippi. Lewis was born in McComb, Mississippi. In 1928, Lewis and his father organized the McComb Independent Lodge NO. 846 of the...
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...
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 December 14, 1972 with Mr. Percy Greene at his office in Jackson, Mississippi. Greene was born on September 7, 1897 in Jackson, Mississippi and died on April 16, 1977. He was very active in the civil rights...
Oral history.; Mr. Billy Joe McCain, Sr., was born in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1936. When he was four years old, his parents divorced, and he returned with his mother to her parents' home in Grenada, Mississippi. He attended segregated schools,...
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...
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of hay being loaded onto the ship Hattiesburg Victory. The voyage was part of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration and the Heifer Project,...
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of a ceremony for the Cattle for Greece on the Hattiesburg Victory. The voyage was part of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration and the Heifer...
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of cargo being loaded onto the ship Hattiesburg Victory. The voyage was part of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration and the Heifer Project,...
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of the ship Hattiesburg Victory. The voyage was part of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration and the Heifer Project, donating cattle and...
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of a ceremony for the Cattle for Greece on the Hattiesburg Victory. The voyage was part of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration and the Heifer...
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of cargo being loaded onto the ship Hattiesburg Victory. The voyage was part of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration and the Heifer Project,...