A collection of six 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...
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 July 2, 1974 with Mrs. Ellie J. Dahmer at her home in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Dahmer was born in Jasper County, Mississippi in 1925. After completing high school at Jasper County Training School she...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on September 20, 1993 with Brad Dye concerning Mississippi Governor Paul Johnson Jr. Dye was born on December 20, 1933 in Charleston, Mississippi. In 1957, he received his bachelor of business administration...
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 September 14, 1977 with Mr. Semmes Luckett, attorney at law, at his office in Clarksdale, Mississippi. Luckett was born on October 28, 1905 in Yazoo City, Mississippi. He entered the University of Mississippi...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on May 21, 1974 and January 26, 1976 with the Honorable Mildred Wells Norris. Norris was born in Ovett, Mississippi. She studied for one year at Mississippi State College for Women. Norris started working...
Oral history.; The family of Dr. Isaac Thomas moved to Hattiesburg from Beaumont, Perry County, Mississippi, in 1935. He entered Eureka High School that year, graduating in 1938, one of a class of thirty three. Dr. Thomas stresses how important...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on February 21, 1980 with the Honorable George M. Yarbrough at his home. Yarbrough was born on August 15, 1916 at Red Banks, Mississippi. Yarbrough served in the U.S. Army during World War II, achieving the rank...
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.; Interview conducted on April 2, 1972 with Mr. R. Jess Brown in Jackson, Mississippi. Brown was born in Coffeeville, Kansas, on September 2, 1912, and was raised in Oklahoma. He received a Bachelor of Science degree from Illinois...
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 de Grummond Children's Books collection. Published in New York by McLoughlin Bros., Inc., circa 1871. Title and imprint from cover. Date from inscription. "Picture books for little children for sale at all book stores. 66 different...
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Published in New York by McLoughlin Bros., Inc., circa 1870s. Title and imprint from cover. P. [2] and [3] of cover included in pagination. Some illustrations signed W. Momberger. "New picture...
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Illustrations by Kate Greenaway. Published in New York by McLoughlin Bros., Inc., circa 1870s. Publisher advertisement on rear cover.
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Published in New York by McLoughlin Bros., Inc., circa 1870s. Title, imprint, and series statements from cover. "New picture books for little children."--Publisher's advertisement, back cover. ...
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Published in New York by McLoughlin Bros., Inc., between 1871 and 1874. Title, imprint, and series statements from cover. Date cf. American Antiquarian Society. Printed on linen. "Swift's...
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. By Madame d'Aulnoy. Published in New York by McLoughlin Bros., Inc., circa 1877. Cover title. Includes publisher's advertisement. Part of Aunt Louisa's big picture series.
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Published in New York by McLoughlin Bros., Inc., circa 1880. Title, imprint, and series statements from cover. P. [2] and [3] of cover included in pagination. "New picture books for little...
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Published in New York by McLoughlin Bros., Inc., circa 1880. Cover title. Caption title: Old fables in a new dress. In verse. Includes publisher's advertisement.
