Oral history.; Interview conducted on November 4, 1993 with Joseph E. Wroten (born 1925). Mr. Wroten became famous as one of only two Mississippi House Representatives who voted in favor of allowing blacks to enroll at the University of Mississippi.
Photograph of the campus radio station, WUSM. Caption: The station gives students opportunities for hands-on experience in broadcasting. News anchor, Brian Flynt, a senior, waits for a commercial break to end. Also found in the 1997 Southerner...
Photograph of the 1922 Mississippi Normal College baseball team and coach. First row: J. A. McCrary, L. E. Gafford, A. H. Dempsy, N. R. Clayton, C. Files, W. C. Wailes; second row: Otis Waits, E. D. Cox, T. F. Morris, W. C. Denson, H. Hartzog;...
cartoon by Eddie Germano; A man sleeps in a hammock tied to two trees in his yard. The lawnmower waits to be used on the tall grass that is labeled "public apathy."
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Richard Locher. In the foreground of the cartoon are a line of people, chained together, walking down a hill to the shoreline. Between two of the people, a sign labeled "Taxpayers" hangs from...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on September 2, 1976 with the Honorable Hervey O. Hicks at his home in Benton, Mississippi. Hicks was born on a farm near Benton, Mississippi, in Yazoo County in 1900. In 1931, he ran a successful campaign for...
Oral history.; Charles C. Jacobs Jr. was born in Greenville, Mississippi, on January 13, 1921. Mr. Jacobs attended the University of Mississippi and returned to its law school after serving as a Marine during World War II. During his career, he was...
Oral history.; Four interviews conducted on June 11, September 26, October 10, and November 21, 1985 with Ms. Ruby Magee in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Magee was born on August 12, 1940 in Tylertown, Mississippi. In 1962, she received a BA in...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on August 15, 1978 with Mr. Thomas Y. Minniece. Minniece was born in Meridian, Mississippi on October 9, 1912. He received a BA degree from the University of Texas in 1933 and a law degree from the University of...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on April 16, 1985 with Mr. Thomas Y. Minniece. Minniece was born in Meridian, Mississippi on October 9, 1912. He received a BA degree from the University of Texas in 1933 and a law degree from the University of...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 26, 1977 with William Joel Blass (born 1917). As a lawyer in 1952, he successfully prosecuted the Boyce Holleman case by proving that voter fraud had kept Holleman from winning. Beginning in 1953, he...
From the Alexander Melvorne Jackson Papers. Photograph of Miguel Otero, Mary Blackwood Otero (Miguel Otero's wife), and an enslaved Black girl, photograph taken circa 1860s. The Oteros are sitting at a table with tea cups on it while a young Black...
Transcribed copy of a paper about racism in Mississippi during the 1960s. Follows the tribulations of college students who volunteered to register African Americans to vote during Freedom Summer. With regard to racism and white supremacy,...
Materials in this collection were donated by William M. Colmer: First accession-1970. Additional information online at: http://www.lib.usm.edu/legacy/archives/m024.htm
