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.; Mrs. Lorita Nelson Jones was born on July 19, 1909, in Biloxi, Mississippi. Her mother's family were originally from New Orleans, Louisiana, of Creole heritage; her grandmother, Olivia Lewis, spoke only in French. Her father Lamar...
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 Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of the Mississippi Southern College orchestra playing for a Chi Omega dance.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of the Mississippi Southern College orchestra playing for a Chi Omega dance.
Oral history.; Biloxi Police Director Tommy Moffett was born March 2, 1950, in Taylorsville, Mississippi. He grew up in a household of ten siblings, and they all helped in sharecropping until Mr. Moffett was fifteen years old. His childhood was...
Oral history.; Ms. Frances Elkin Joyner was born on November 23, 1909, in Tupelo, Mississippi. She graduated from Tupelo High School and then attended National Park Seminary in Forest Glen, Maryland. She married Ernest Love Joyner, Jr. just...
Playbill for the production of Elizabeth the queen, presented during the 1977-1978 season. Dayna A. Anderson directed the play in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Fine Arts degree.
Program for Catfish moon, by Laddy Sartin, which was performed at Mannoni Performing Arts Center and the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival in Washington, DC in April 1995.
Oral history.; Interview conducted on October 22, 1996 with Mrs. Josephine Clemons Bell (born 1909). Her teaching career in elementary education in the public school of Natchez-Adams County spans twenty-nine and a half years. After retiring in...
Letter from John Lion, Director of the American College Theater Festival, to President Aubrey Lucas. The letter announces the selection of USM's production of Catfish Moon for performance at the American College Theater Festival during April 1995...
Oral history.; Viola Brown Sanders was born in Sidon, Mississippi, on February 21, 1921. After Miss Sanders finished her education, she taught school for two years in Glen Allan, Mississippi. In 1943, Miss Sanders joined the United States Navy...
Photograph of actors rehearsing a scene from Mozart's operetta, Cosi fan tutte. Pictured: Robert Mesrobian, director; Judy Balo; Jayne Thompson and Mary Starnes. Also found in the April 30, 1970 Student Printz on page 10.
