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...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on September 20, 1979 with Dr. Dewey Lane at the Robinson Lane Surgical Clinic in Pascagoula, Mississippi. Lane was born on September 27, 1934 in Starkville, Mississippi. He attended Vanderbilt University from...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on May 18, 1972 with Ms. Ruby Magee at College Hall at the University of Southern Mississippi. Magee was born in 1940 in Tylertown, Mississippi. In 1962, she received a BA in history and political science from...
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of a class sitting at desks in a classroom taken for the Demonstration School annual.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of cheerleaders at the Demonstration School in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
Photograph of children playing on the Demonstration school. Adults (caregivers? future teachers?) are nearby and appear to be observing. Barns and a water tower are in the background. Photograph featured in the 1922 Neka Camon on page 60.
Photograph of students in front of the Demonstration school building, later named George Hurst Building. Photograph featured in the 1944 Southerner yearbook on page 5.