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...
Photograph of the Dixie Darling officers. Pictured left to right, 1st Captain Kay Crenshaw, 2nd Lieutenant Ann Fiebelkorn, 1st Lieutenant Vi Tarrer, and 2nd Captain Loretta Beths; This photo is featured in the 1958 Southerner yearbook on page 171;...
Photograph of Dixie Darlings and former Dixie Darlings in London. In 2004, the Dixie Darling founding class of 1954 was inducted into The Pride Hall of Fame. More than 150 alumnae performed with the current Dixie Darlings at halftime during the...
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...
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...
