Oral history.; Interview conducted on July 7, 1976 with Mr. P.A. Tims of Poplarville, Mississippi. Tims was born on October 20, 1890 in Ethel, Mississippi. In 1912, he enrolled in the first class to convene on the campus of the newly established...
Oral history.; On April 8, 1927, Dr. Pete Walker was born in Lumberton, Mississippi. When Dr. Walker was four years old, his mother passed away. As a child, Dr. Walker worked in his father's cafes. Dr. Walker attended Jones County Junior College...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on November 4, 1993 with Joseph E. Wroten (born 1925). Mr. Wroten became famous as one of only two Mississippi House Representatives who voted in favor of allowing blacks to enroll at the University of Mississippi.
Oral history.; Interview conducted on April 18, 1996 with Zoya Zeman (born 1943). Ms. Zeman was a civil rights activist who worked on the Mississippi Summer Project in Clarksdale, where she worked at the community center, organizing classes and...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 26, 1977 with William Joel Blass (born 1917). As a lawyer in 1952, he successfully prosecuted the Boyce Holleman case by proving that voter fraud had kept Holleman from winning. Beginning in 1953, he...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on October 25, 1993 with Mrs. Raylawni Branch. Branch was born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, in 1941. After graduating from high school, she married and had three children. In 1965, Branch attended USM for one...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on November 16, 1977 with George Rogers (born 1927). Mr. Rogers, a Rhodes Scholar, was elected to the Mississippi House of Representatives, where he served for more than twenty years. He became well known for his...
Oral history.; Four interviews conducted on October 1, 2, and 23 of 1975, and July 1, 1976 with Mr. Hugh Clegg at his home in Anguilla, Mississippi. Clegg was born on July 17, 1898 in Mathiston, Mississippi. Clegg graduated from Millsaps...
Oral history.; Mr. Terry Allen Broadus was born on October 11, 1938. Mr. Broadus enrolled at Perkinston Agricultural High School in 1952 and later received a baseball scholarship to attend Perkinston Junior College. In the late 1960s, Mr. Broadus...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Volunteer Doug Tuchman stands with two local African American men in the front entrance of Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer, 1964. Visible between the...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Three local African American residents stand in the front entrance of Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer, 1964. The woman in the center is local activist...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs.Two African American students sit together at a desk in a room over the entrance to the Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer, 1964. One student is using the...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; A local African American female resident picks up a leaflet while a Caucasian female volunteer checks a card file at a table in the front entrance of Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Hattiesburg,...
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs; Photograph of the front entrance of Mississippi Woman's College, with a view of the administration building in the background; 7 x 5
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; A local African American woman stands in the front entrance of Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer, 1964, while volunteer Beth More works with a card file...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Four local African American women stand in the front entrance of Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer, 1964, while a Caucasian female volunteer works with...
From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection.; Photograph taken in September 1964 of the George Peabody building on the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) campus. It shows the front of the large building with white columns framing the entrance.
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs; Photograph of Mayor R. T. Carlisle and others at the gazebo to celebrate the completion of Hillendale Subdivision in 1957. Hillendale was the first subdivision in the western section of Hattiesburg, and...
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs; Photograph of the Hattiesburg Hospital (later, the Methodist Hospital) with doctors and nurses standing in the entrance, circa 1908-1913.
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs; Photograph of a brick structure known as the Ross Building, featuring a sign, "Drugs & Medicines." Several well-dressed males stand around the entrance. This building was located on the corner of Front...
