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 Hattiesburg Historical Photographs; Photograph of a baptism performed by Rev. A. L. O’Briant of Immanuel Baptist Church, in Gordon’s Creek, circa 1908.
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...
Photograph of Sam Denton (top) and Talmage Walker (bottom). Taken during a State Teachers College band camping trip on Black Creek in the spring of 1929.
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Volunteers Carolyn and Arthur Reese, Co-Coordinators of the COFO-Hattiesburg Freedom Schools during Freedom Summer, 1964, stand in front of Priest Creek Missionary Baptist Church at Palmer's...
Printed committee report dated 12 February 1816, relating to claims in the Mississippi Territory. This report concerns the validity of British and Spanish grants, some held by non-residents.
Printed committee report dated 3 February 1816, relating to claims in the Mississippi Territory. It recommends that the petitions by Mississippi territory residents for compensation due to Creek Indian depredations (and the depredations of American...
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...
A printed copy of a petition to the House of Representatives of the 24th Congress on 1 February 1837. The petition contains 91 names of Mississippi residents who were requesting that Congress set up a tribunal to scrutinize land claims in the area...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on July 12, 1973 with Mr. Jerry Clower at his office in Yazoo City, Mississippi. Clower was born in 1926 at Route Four, Liberty, Mississippi. After graduating from high school, he joined the U.S. Navy. On...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on January 23, 1973 with Mr. William Dukes in his office in Gulfport, Mississippi. Dukes was born in the Sullivans' Hollow area near Raleigh, in Smith County, Mississippi on January 15, 1927. After his discharge...
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...
