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...
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.; 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.; Interview conducted on October 25, 1993 with Mrs. Raylawni Branch. Branch was born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, in 1941. After graduating from high school, she married and had three children. In 1965, Branch attended USM for one...
Oral history.; Mrs. Lodie Marie Robinson-Cyrille was born on August 21, 1951 in Biloxi, Mississippi. As a child, she remembers meeting people from various cultures, including Africans; many were studying or serving at Keesler Air Force Base. ...
Oral history.; Four interviews conducted on October 1, 2, and 23 of 1975, and July 1, 1976 with Mr. Hugh Clegg at his home in Anguilla, Mississippi. Clegg was born on July 17, 1898 in Mathiston, Mississippi. Clegg graduated from Millsaps...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on December 6, 1983 with Mr. William Raspberry in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Raspberry was born on October 12, 1935 in Okolona, Mississippi. He graduated in 1958 with a BS in history from Indian Central College....
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; This report informs Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) staff of structural changes within the organization and new approaches the organization will take to empowering African...
From the Zoya Zeman Freedom Summer Collection. Thirty-six pages (typewritten and handwritten) recounting Zoya Zeman's experiences in Mississippi from June 24, 1964, through September 6, 1964.
Photograph of Facilities Planning Officer, Royce Pierce. Royce Pierce has big things planned for the University of Southern Mississippi campus. An overpass over Hardy Street, new residence hall and centralized student activities are just some of...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Vic Runtz. Gerald Ford sits at a desk in an office and holds a newspaper with the headline, "Swift changes in leadership: Britain, France, Portugal, W. Germany." Richard Nixon has come through...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird is kneeling down on the ground and is using a wrench labeled "Draft changes" to try to unbolt the fuse from a bomb that is labeled "Campus...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Vic Runtz. An aged man with a long beard wears sandles and a belted tunic labeled "The sixties." At the edge of a cliff, he has slipped on a banana peel labeled "Earth's unsolved problems."...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Jack Jurden. Richard Nixon, dressed as a Pilgrim, is walking through an open field carrying a hatchet or ax labeled "Cabinet changes." He is thinking of Walter Hickel, who is drawn as a large...
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.; Two interviews conducted on August 29, 1991 with Mr. Richard Boyd and on September 29, 1992 with Mrs. Earline Boyd. Mr. Boyd was born on July 21, 1916 in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. He graduated from Eureka High School in 1935. ...
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...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on October 21, 1996 with Mr. Charles Cobb (born 1943) in Washington, D.C. In the summer of 1962, he was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) field secretary in Ruleville, Mississippi, where he and...
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 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...
