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...
From the Meridian Light and Railway Company Minute Book Collection. Photograph of a one volume, four hundred page Secretary's Record book detailing the minutes of the Meridian Light and Railway Company from February 18, 1901 to July 18, 1910....
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...
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.; Mr. Alvin L. Fielder Sr. was born December 7, 1900 in Newton County, Mississippi. Mr. Fielder moved to Meehan Junction, Mississippi in 1913 and remained there until 1918, when he moved to Meridian. In 1918 he was a lumberyard saw...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on February 13, 1974 with Mayor Bennie G. Thompson at his office in Bolton, Mississippi. Thompson was born on January 28, 1948 in Bolton, Mississippi. He received a BA in political science from Tougaloo College...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on February 27, 1991 in the city hall of Corinth, Mississippi with Mayor Edward S. Bishop, Sr. Bishop was born in Starkville, Mississippi on December 11, 1907. In 1926, he completed high school at Jackson...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on February 19, 2009 with George Bass, Chief of Long Beach Fire Department. He talks about losing his home and his other experiences in Long Beach during and after Hurricane Katrina.
Oral history.; Mrs. Boyd O'Neal Keith was born on July 17, 1918. In childhood, she worked on her family's 328 acre homestead and attended Daisy Vestry High School. Mrs. Keith worked at a wool mill in Hurley, Mississippi, while also farming and...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on October 28, 1993 with Judge Michael L. Carr (born 1920). He moved to Mississippi when he received an appointment to serve as law clerk to Edwin R. Holmes, U.S. circuit judge for the Fifth Circuit Court of...
Oral history.; Mr. Jack Raymond Reed was born on May 19, 1924, in Tupelo, Mississippi. In 1941, Mr. Reed graduated from Tupelo High School and he then entered the military and World War II as part of the Signal Intelligence Service, U.S. Army of...
From the McLoughlin Brothers Papers. Uncut book proof of the book ABC of Birds from the books series of the McLoughlin Brother papers. The McLoughlin Brother Papers contain manuscripts, typescripts, galleys, correspondence, photographs, dummies,...
From the McLoughlin Brothers Papers. Blank book mock-up, black and white cover of the book ABC: An Alphabet Book in Rhyme, inside reads "#2610, 32 pages, 25 item," from the books series of the McLoughlin Brother papers. The McLoughlin Brother...
From the McLoughlin Brothers Papers. Big Letter ABC Book (New York: McLoughlin Bros., 1898) #2310, Printed published book with hand-drawn colored endpapers and hand lettered text, from the books series of the McLoughlin Brother Papers. The...
From the Rare Books Collection. This book is a salesman's copy designed to be a preview of a book not yet published. It is comprised of irregularly numbered sample pages and illustrations, a register to record subscribers' names, and examples of...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. The cartoon is divided into two panels. On the left, a large man labeled "KGB" sits in a plush chair reading a large book titled, "Our man in Tehran." Frowning, he is looking up...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eddie Germano. A large book is labeled "Wave of published memoirs by late Pres. Kennedy associates." A man labeled "Dedicated officials" is lying flat between the pages of the book, with arms...
Oral history.; An interview with Sister Jacqueline Howard conducted on May 30, 2007. Principal at Our Lady Academy in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, Howard describes the impact of Hurricane Katrina on the school and the community of Bay St. Louis.
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...
