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.; An interview conducted on March 19, 2008 with Vincent Creel. An employee of the City of Biloxi, Mr. Creel discussesthe city's preparation, response and recovery from Hurricane Katrina.
A collection of ten 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.; Mr. Alton G. Bankston was born outside of Laurel, Mississippi on June 5, 1941. Mr. Bankston majored in political science and history at Jones County Junior College and attended the University of Southern Mississippi. In 1963 he...
Oral history.; Gwin E. Douglas was born on November 9, 1923, in State Line, Mississippi. Douglas graduated from Leakesville High School in 1942 and worked briefly with his father in the naval store and the timber businesses until he was drafted...
Oral history.; Mrs. Sarah Harris Ruffin was born on April 15, 1914. Her parents came to Hattiesburg in the early 1900s. When young, Mrs. Ruffin did domestic and warehouse work. In 1949, she began working at the Brooklyn Jewish Hospital as a nurse's...
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. Black-and-white photograph of (left to right) Wayne Yancey, Charlie Scales, Ruth Koenig, and unidentified woman on the porch of the original Freedom House in Holly Springs, Mississippi.
cartoon by Wayne Stayskal; There are four scenes in this cartoon. In the first scene, two men carry rifles and conceal themselves against a brick wall labeled "Belfast Pub," around the corner from a sidewalk. The first man peers around the corner...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Wayne Stayskal. Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew sit in chairs in front of a television set in a large office. A newspaper with the headline, "Watergate TV" is on the floor at Nixon's feet, and he...
cartoon by Wayne Stayskal; Egyptian leader Anwar Sadat stands in front of a mirror in a wide hallway with a vast, arched ceiling. With one index finger in each corner of his mouth, he stretches out his lips into a wide toothy grin. The grin...
cartoon by Wayne Stayskal; The Washington monument and the dome of the Capitol building can be seen through part of an arched doorway. To the right of the doorway, a priest sits in one side of a confessional booth. In response to a confessor, the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Wayne Stayskal. A number of miniature missiles speed through an open doorway. The missiles have knocked the door knob off the front of the door. An ornate window set into the door features a...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Wayne Stayskal. Richard and Pat Nixon are shown leaving through the gates of the White House in the back seat of a chauffered vehicle. A bumper sticker on the car reads, "Impeach Dean." One...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 24, 1981 with Mr. Dave L. Dunaway at his office in Greenville, Mississippi. Dunaway was born on January 2, 1927 near the Enon community in Walthall County, Mississippi. Following his discharge from the...
Oral history.; Mr. Ray William (Buck) Wells was born August 21, 1916, on a dairy farm three-fourths of a mile southwest of Mississippi Normal College (now The University of Southern Mississippi). Sometime around 1920 or 1921 he moved into...
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
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of the trophy awarded at a regional football game between Lumberton and Waynesboro in 1947.
Southern Rifles, The USM ROTC rifle team. Pictured: Cadet 2LT G.E. (Butch) Williams, Cadet LTC Paul D. Ladnier, Cadet CPL Marshal Eubanks. Cadet SFC Wayne McClellan, Cadet SGT William E. (Gene) Lawson, Cadet Ernest Wright, SFC Walter Sullivan.
P.R. Staff pictured left to right: Larry McKennon, Ronnie Hodges, Paul Christopher, Bill Burke, Stanley Harris, Pete Baricen, Jerry Tharp and Wayne Geisel.
