Oral history.; Reverend Oliver D. Gilmer was born in Kentucky on May 31, 1927. As he grew up on a farm, he attended a one-teacher school from primer through the eighth grade. During World War II, he was drafted into the Army. He served in the...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on May 8, 1996 with voter registration activist Jan Handke (born May 10, 1945). Ms. Handke was a part of the Freedom Summer Project, becoming occupied with voter registration in Vicksburg and working in the...
Oral history.; Mr. James Madison Johnson was born on March 17, 1955, in Laurel, Mississippi. During his childhood, he lived in George County, Lucedale, Leaf, and McLain, Mississippi. Mr. Johnson attended college at Mississippi Valley State,...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on July 8 and 23, 1980 with the Reverend Clay F. Lee at his study in Jackson, Mississippi. Lee was born on March 3, 1930 in Laurel, Mississippi. After graduating with his undergraduate degree from Millsaps...
Oral history.; Mr. Harry A. Martin was born in Clarke County, Mississippi, on July 20, 1925. Mr. Martin became active in Four-H Club and in Future Farmers of America during his elementary and high school years. After graduation, Mr. Martin got a...
Oral history.; Born on November 6, 1916, in Quito, Mississippi, Mrs. Martha Sisson Miller was the daughter of John William Sisson and Myrlea Johnson Sisson. She attended elementary and high school at Indianola City School. She attended Sunflower...
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.; Mr. Wesley C. Webb was born in Biloxi, Mississippi, on April 2, 1938. After his graduation from high school, Mr. Webb entered the Navy, boarding the U.S.S. Helena for Japan. For two years and nine months, Mr. Webb served in the...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on September 18, 1980 with Phillip West (born 1946). He has served as president of the NAACP of Adams County and as second vice-president for the state.
Interviews conducted on 04-21-1977 and 05-12-1977 with Unita Blackwell (born 1933). Ms. Blackwell was a field worker for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in 1964 and also served that year as a delegate of the Mississippi Freedom...
Oral history.; Mr. Coygon Robinson Jr. was born in Biloxi, Mississippi, on December 3, 1951. He attended Perkins Elementary School and Nichols High School. In the fifth grade, Mr. Robinson got his first set of drums, and he continued to practice...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on August 23 and October 30, 1974 with Mr. Joe Reyer at his home in Poplarville, Mississippi. Reyer was born in 1893 in Pearl River County, Mississippi. He attended an agricultural high school, now Pearl...
Oral history.; Kathleen (Kat) Bergeron was born on April 23, 1950. She attended Gulfport East High School and the W. Page Pitt School of Journalism at Marshal University in Huntington, West Virginia. From 1995 to 1996, Ms. Bergeron attended...
From the Camp McCain, Mississippi World War II Slides. Photograph (from a color slide) of the view of the company area from the officers quarters at Camp McCain, near Grenada, Mississippi, in the Spring of 1943. Photograph taken by Lt. Omer Austin...
From the Camp McCain, Mississippi World War II Slides. Photograph (from a color slide) of Major Park on his "10-minute" break at Camp McCain, near Grenada, Mississippi, in the Spring of 1943. Photograph taken by Lt. Omer Austin Heacox, who was with...
From the Camp McCain, Mississippi World War II Slides. Photograph (from a color slide) of the company taking a "10-minute break" at Camp McCain, near Grenada, Mississippi, in the Spring of 1943. Photograph taken by Lt. Omer Austin Heacox, who was...
From the Camp McCain, Mississippi World War II Slides. Photograph (from a color slide) of the H.Q. Co. 502nd MP BN Training Area at Camp McCain, near Grenada, Mississippi, in the Spring of 1943. Photograph taken by Lt. Omer Austin Heacox, who was...
From the Camp McCain, Mississippi World War II Slides. Photograph (from a color slide) of the sawdust pit used for training in Judo at Camp McCain, near Grenada, Mississippi, in the Spring of 1943. Photograph taken by Lt. Omer Austin Heacox, who...
From the Camp McCain, Mississippi World War II Slides. Photograph (from a color slide) entitled "Come and Get It" of the mess line at Camp McCain, near Grenada, Mississippi, in the Spring of 1943. Photograph taken by Lt. Omer Austin Heacox, who was...
From the Camp McCain, Mississippi World War II Slides. Photograph (from a color slide) of the company returning after a hike to Camp McCain, near Grenada, Mississippi, in the Spring of 1943. Photograph taken by Lt. Omer Austin Heacox, who was with...