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.; Two interviews conducted on June 18, 1992 and March 9, 1993 with Mr. C.B. "Buddie" Newman at his home in Valley Park, Mississippi. Newman was born on May 8, 1921 in Valley Park, Mississippi. In 1942, he left his job with the Southern...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on January 26, 1993 with Pete Johnson, nephew of Paul B. Johnson Jr., at his home in Madison, Mississippi. Pete Johnson was born on May 12, 1948 in Alexandria, Louisiana. He received his B.S. degree in business...
From the Walter Anderson Papers.; A black and blue marker illustration of the white rabbit looking at a timepiece, used in front matter and on dust jacket of Anderson's Alice: Walter Anderson Illustrates Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis...
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.
From the University of Southern Mississippi Art Museum collection. Framed donation certificate of Walter Anderson paintings to the University of Southern Mississippi by John Dryden Davenport.
Oral history.; Interview conducted on September 10, 1993 with Herman Cowan Glazier Jr. (born 1918). Glazier's service record in Mississippi government spans forty-five years from 1946 to 1987. This includes his serving as exectutive assistant to...
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...
From the Walter Anderson Papers.; A hand watercolored block print ('B--Butterfly') mounted on corrugated cardboard from Walter Anderson's An Alphabet; 12 1/2 x 14 1/2
From the Walter Anderson Papers.; A hand watercolored block print ('X--Xebec') mounted on corrugated cardboard from Walter Anderson's An Alphabet; 12 1/2 x 14 1/2
From the Walter Anderson Papers.; Unused black and white block print illustration of Robinson and his mistress at the zoo from Walter Anderson's Robinson: The Pleasant History of an Unusual Cat; 11 x 13 1/2
From the Walter Anderson Papers.; A hand watercolored block print ('Q--Queen') mounted on corrugated cardboard from Walter Anderson's An Alphabet; 12 1/2 x 14 1/2
From the Walter Anderson Papers.; A hand watercolored block print ('J--Jay') mounted on corrugated cardboard from Walter Anderson's An Alphabet; 12 1/2 x 14 1/2
From the Walter Anderson Papers.; A hand watercolored block print ('L--Lion') mounted on corrugated cardboard from Walter Anderson's An Alphabet; 12 1/2 x 14 1/2
Photograph of Drs. William D. McCain and Charles Moorman with Dr. Walter Washington when Washington was presented the first doctoral degree from the university to an African American candidate. Photograph also fuond in Chester M. Morgan's book,...
From the University of Southern Mississippi Art Museum collection. Aquatint and mezzotint of a preacher and a woman walking on a road on a bleak winter day, with buildings in the background, by J. Walter Gozzard.
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 September 17, 1980 with the Honorable Tony Byrne, former mayor of Natchez, Mississippi at his office in the Natchez City Hall. Byrne was born on May 18, 1936 in Natchez, Mississippi. He attended Mississippi...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on September 2, 1981 with Mrs. Irene Napier at her home in Mount Olive, Mississippi. Napier was born on December 21, 1917 at Mount Olive in Covington, Mississippi. After having studied two years at Jones County...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on August 30, 1978 with Thomas Jefferson Tubb (born 1899). Mr. Tubb served as chairman of the Clay County Executive Committee for 47 years from 1928 to 1975 and during the Dixiecrat movement from 1950 to 1956....
