From the Map Collection. A map showing a harbor and surrounding landforms. Brackish and fresh water are identified as well as the composition of the sea floor. "Lying in the Lat. of 17.d 36.m N." Scale of 1 mile.
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Composition book of Freedom School student Georgia May Byes that contains a modification of the Declaration of Independence which expresses the desires of African Americans in Mississippi...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Composition book of Freedom School student Gwendolyn Merritt. Contains the resolutions of the Priest Creek Precinct meeting as well as a brief essay on the Freedom Movement and the Black...
From the Bill Severn Papers.; Composition and research notes from a conversation with Bettina Peterson and used in Bill Severn's Irish Statesman and Rebel: The Two Lives of Eamon De Valera (1970). 8.5" x 11.5"
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 Gene DeWeese Papers.; Composition notes (30 April 1996) labeled "outline and scenes" (p.1) from Gene DeWeese's Lord of Necropolis (1997). 8.5" x 11"
From the McLoughlin Brothers Papers. Trade composition 1st proofs (11 pages) of Marge's Little Lulu Her Train Ride to Grandma's [Marjorie Henderson Buell] (Springfield: McLoughlin Bros., 1946) Westfield classics #80 from the books series of the...
From the McLoughlin Brothers Papers. Trade composition 2nd proofs of Marge's Little Lulu Her Train Ride to Grandma's [Marjorie Henderson Buell] (Springfield: McLoughlin Bros., 1946) Westfield classics #80 from the books series of the McLoughlin...
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...
From the Gene DeWeese Papers.; Composition notes, including an early diagram for organization of story/plot for Gene DeWeese's Nightmare Universe (1985). 8.5" x 11"
Oral history.; Interview conducted on January 5, 1978 with Miss Florence Mars at her home in Philadelphia, Mississippi. Mars was born on January 1, 1923 in Philadelphia, Mississippi. She studied at Millsaps College and University of Mississippi,...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 24, 1981 with Mr. Dave L. Dunaway at his office in Greenville, Mississippi. Dunaway was born on January 2, 1927 near the Enon community in Walthall County, Mississippi. Following his discharge from the...
Oral history.; Mr. Eric Eugene Dickey was born May 7, 1966, in Biloxi, Mississippi, where his grandparents and Head Start exerted positive influences in his early life. In elementary school band, Mr. Dickey began playing trumpet, and later...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on July 30, 1980 with Mr. Erle Johnston at his home in Forest, Mississippi. Johnston was born on October 10, 1917 in Garyville, Louisiana. In 1941, he moved Forest, Mississippi and bought the fledgling newspaper,...
Oral history.; Discusses race relations in New York and Mississippi, the problems of freedom-of-choice desegregation, and the power of Joe Patterson, John Bell Williams, and James Eastland in Mississippi politics. This interview reviews the lawsuit...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on June 9, 1977 with the Honorable Herman B. DeCell in his office in Yazoo City, Mississippi. DeCell enrolled at the University of Mississippi but with the start of World War II, he was called to service. After...
Oral history.; Judge John H. Whitfield was born in Gulfport, Mississippi, on July 4, 1962. Prior to integration of the schools, Judge Whitfield attended Nichols Perkins Elementary School in Biloxi until 1973. When Mississippi public schools in...
