Materials in this collection were donated by William M. Colmer: First accession-1970. Additional information online at: http://www.lib.usm.edu/legacy/archives/m024.htm
Oral history.; An interview conducted on July 18, 2006 with Odalee Fair. A resident of New Orleans, Ms. Fair discusses her experiences during and after Hurricane Katrina.
Oral history.; Three interviews conducted on October 23, 29, and 30, 1996 with Hollis Watkins (born 1941), the twelfth child of sharecroppers. Mr. Watkins was jailed for participating in the Woolsworth's lunch counter sit-in in McComb and a...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on June 10, 1994 with Fred Clark Sr. (born 1943). Mr. Clark grew up in the segregated society of Jackson, Mississippi. He was educated in Jackson, attending Smith Robertson Elementary School, Rowan Junior High,...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on April 1, 1993 and January 6, 1995 with Ariel Barnes (born 1917). Mrs. Barnes was born in Forest, Mississippi, but moved to Hattiesburg shortly after. She attended Alcorn University, where she earned a...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A woman is riding in a canoe labeled "World's Fair" that is floating down a river. In one hand, she holds an umbrella with "84" and the exposition's river image on it; in her...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Louisiana Governor Dave Treen and a second man had been holding a large model labeled "'84 N.O. World's Fair." The second man has put down his end of the model and is walking...
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.; Interview conducted on July 2, 1974 with Mrs. Ellie J. Dahmer at her home in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Dahmer was born in Jasper County, Mississippi in 1925. After completing high school at Jasper County Training School she...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on August 21, 1972 with the Honorable Russell C. Davis in his office in Jackson, Mississippi. He was born in Rockville, Maryland. After completing two years at the University of Maryland, Davis took employment...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on April 14, 1972 and January 25, 1973 with Mississippi civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977). Hamer was a leading figure in the MFDP. She is best known for her 1964 national television...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on May 11, 1977 with the Honorable Horace Buckley at his home in Jackson, Mississippi. Buckley was born on July 14, 1941 in Jackson, Mississippi. He obtained his undergraduate degree from Mississippi Valley...
Oral history.; Charles C. Jacobs Jr. was born in Greenville, Mississippi, on January 13, 1921. Mr. Jacobs attended the University of Mississippi and returned to its law school after serving as a Marine during World War II. During his career, he was...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on November 6, 1979 with Dr. Arthur Lewis, emeritus professor of mathematics, emeritus professor of physics and astronomy, and emeritus Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Mississippi. Lewis...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on August 17, 1977 with Mrs. Betty Carter at her home in Greenville, Mississippi. Carter was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. She attended Newcomb College where she met her husband, Hodding Carter. Together they...
Oral history.; Dorothea Allsup was born on February 4, 1916. Her family resided in Nebraska, but they moved to Epes, Alabama and then Macon, Mississippi, when she was seventeen. While Mrs. Allsup attended high school in Macon she met her future...
Photograph of international students from Japan teaching a game native to their country to visitors at the International Fair. Similar photo found in the 1996 Southerner yearbook on page 178.
Photograph of the annual student activities organizational fair, which encourages the University of Southern Mississippi's 180 plus groups and organizations to recruit new members. (caption) Also found in the 1997 Southerner yearbook on page 158.
Photograph of the annual student activities organizational fair, which encourages the University of Southern Mississippi's 180 plus groups and organizations to recruit new members. (Caption) Similar photo found in the 1997 Southerner yearbook on...