From the Zoya Zeman Freedom Summer Collection. Transcribed copy of the diary of Dean Hay, a Presbyterian minister from Nebraska, in which he details his trip to Hattiesburg, Mississippi, in February of 1964. The goal of this trip was to aid in the...
Transcribed copy of a report by the General Legislative Committee of Mississippi based on findings from an investigation of the occupation of the University of Mississippi in 1962 by the United States Department of Justice. Action was taken in...
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 Thigpen (S.G.) Papers. Photograph of the Carver/Peterman House. Caption included reads “The last of Old Gainesville. Home built in 1865 by the Carver family and later owned by J. H. Peterman. It was located on the Lower Gainesville...
From the Thigpen (S.G.) Papers. Photograph of a charcoal kiln burned at Gainesville in 1912. Charcoal was shipped to New Orleans by schooner to a wood yard by Oscar Dean. Two men holding shovels standing in front of a kiln. Photograph can be...
Photograph of the Cook Memorial (Joseph Anderson) Dedication Ceremonies on October 22, 1960. Pictured left to right: Professor John Nau - gave invocation, Architect J. Biggs Jr, Secretary of State Heber Ladner, Librarian Anna Roberts, President...
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs; Photograph of former baseball star, Dizzy Dean and Boyce Holleman at the Choctaw Restaurant in Hattiesburg, 1964. The Choctaw was Dean's favorite eatery. Reproduced in McCarty, page 177. Retouched:...
Photograph of Dr. Thomas Shoemaker, former Dean of Students and Director of Greek Life. Featured in the Talon, vol. 54, no. 4 (Spring 2001) on page 15.
Photograph of Elizabeth (Sister Mary Remeguis) Harkins, Dean of the School of Nursing featured in the 1980 Southerner yearbook on page 324; 2 1/2 x 3 1/2
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Wayne Stayskal. Richard and Pat Nixon are shown leaving through the gates of the White House in the back seat of a chauffered vehicle. A bumper sticker on the car reads, "Impeach Dean." One...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 24, 1972 with Dr. William Penn Davis at his home in Jackson, Mississippi. Davis was born in Union County, Mississippi on August 5, 1903. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Mississippi College in...
