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.; Interview conducted on June 10, 1994 with Fred Clark Sr. (born 1943). Mr. Clark grew up in the segregated society of Jackson, Mississippi. He was educated in Jackson, attending Smith Robertson Elementary School, Rowan Junior High,...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on November 6, 1979 with Dr. Arthur Lewis, emeritus professor of mathematics, emeritus professor of physics and astronomy, and emeritus Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Mississippi. Lewis...
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.; Interview conducted on July 7, 1993 with Lt. Col. Billie Hughes of the Mississippi Highway Safety Patrol. Hughes was born in Pearl River County, Mississippi. He grew up in Pike County, Mississippi. After working for the railroad...
Oral history.; Peoples discusses his presidency at Jackson State University, racism in the Marine Corps in the 1940s, the Mississippi Humanities Council, and race relations in Mississippi.
Oral history.; Ms. Margaret Keith Andresen was born in Biloxi, Mississippi on May 3, 1943. She attended Perkinston High School and the Perkinston Campus of Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College. As a teacher at Moss Point High School from...
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...
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 20, 1979 with Dr. Dewey Lane at the Robinson Lane Surgical Clinic in Pascagoula, Mississippi. Lane was born on September 27, 1934 in Starkville, Mississippi. He attended Vanderbilt University from...
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...
Photograph showing principal buildings of the campus. Pictured (left to right): College Hall, Southern Hall, Forrest County Hall, Hattiesburg Hall, Mississippi Hall, vice president's home, and president's home. The view is from the southeast corner...
Photograph of campus buildings with Bennett Auditorium in the center. The view is from the southeast and may have been taken from the top of Southern Hall. Featured in the 1939 Neka Camon yearbook on page 9.
Photograph of students in front of a streetcar by the campus gate in 1915; 9 x 6. Pictured: Alberta Powe (front) Jeanette McCormick, Velma Morrison, Janie Sullivan and Mabel Mixon (back, left to right). Also found in "Hattiesburg: A Pictorial...
Photograph of an aerial view of campus in the late 1940s. The view is from the northeast, with Highway 49 and West 4th Street in the lower portion of the image.
Photograph of Sybel Hardy and Pewee Hinton as the Biggest Girl Flapper and Campus Sheik. Also found in Dearly Bought, Deeply Treasured on page 48, and in the 1925 Neka Camon yearbook on page 137; 5 x 7
