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...
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...
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...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Two men in an office are singing, one of them while playing a guitar. The man with the guitar is at a desk with a name plate labeled, "Orleans Levee Board." Papers on the desk...
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of the inaugural parade for Mayor D.W. Holmes and the city commissioners.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of the inaugural parade for Mayor D.W. Holmes and the city commissioners.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of the inaugural parade for Mayor D.W. Holmes and the city commissioners.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of the inaugural parade for Mayor D.W. Holmes and the city commissioners.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of the inaugural parade for Mayor D.W. Holmes and the city commissioners.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of the inaugural parade for Mayor D.W. Holmes and the city commissioners.
From the Political Campaign Collection. Flyer that lists instructions for voters in elections. The instructions were issued by James Vardaman, Governor; J.L. Power, Secretary of State; Wm. Williams, Attorney General; and the State Board...
Joint Resolutions: Of the General Assembly of the State of Alabama in relation to impressments and the schedule of prices fixed by Confederate Commissioners. By Mr. Chilton; Referred to Special Committee on Impressments, and ordered to be printed...
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs; Photograph showing Hattiesburg Mayor Claude Pittman, Sr., who is seated. Standing beside him are an unidentified man, Commissioner C. B. Patterson, and Commissioner W. P. "Smokie" Harrington, all of whom...
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs; Photograph of Hattiesburg Mayor Paul Grady with Commissioners Ford Vance (right) and Walter Parker (left), circa 1960s.
Message of the President to the Senate and House of Representatives; Includes Report of the Commissioners, Alexander H. Stephens, R.M.T. Hunter, and J.A. Campbell; Also includes Extract from Mr. Lincoln's Message of December Last, Referred to in...
Oral history.; Mr. Alton G. Bankston was born outside of Laurel, Mississippi on June 5, 1941. Mr. Bankston majored in political science and history at Jones County Junior College and attended the University of Southern Mississippi. In 1963 he...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on October 25, 1976 with Bert Fells, a Hattiesburg native. Mr. Fells served in the Air Force from 1966 to 1969, including a tour in Vietnam. In 1972, he returned to Mississippi to live and became director of...
Oral history.; Dr. Sam Spinks was born on March 19, 1921, in Henleyfield, Mississippi. Dr. Spinks attended Henleyfield High School, Pearl River Junior College, The University of Southern Mississippi and The University of Florida. He served in the...
