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...
Photograph of Sammy Winder with his former Southern Miss coach, Bobby Collins, at Winder's induction into the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame. Featured in the USM Alumni News, vol. 51, no. 4 (Spring 1998) on page 3.
Photograph of Brett Favre addressing the crowd at the 1996-1997 University of Southern Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame induction ceremony. Featured in the USM Alumni News, vol. 51, no. 1 (Summer 1997) on page 16.
Photograph of Riva Renee Brown, in the 1993 Hall of Fame of the seven most outstanding students of the graduating class of 1993. Also in the 1993 Southerner yearbook on page 14.
Photograph of football coach Thad "Pie" Vann, who was inducted into the USM Sports Hall of Fame. See related article in Student Printz on April 19, 1977.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Riedell. A man labeled "Mr. average Joe" reads a newspaper with headlines, "Kennedy-Kopechne secret inquest" and "Panther inquiry in Chicago." He asks, "Wonder if they'd do as much for me?"
Photograph of the first members of the University of Southern Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame, installed February 20, 1965, at a banquet held in their honor at the University Commons. First row: Bracie Smith, George Westerfield, Reed Green, Dr....
Photograph of football player F. S. "Coon" Leach, a USM Hall of Fame member. Photograph also found on page 120 of Chester M. Morgan's Dearly bought, deeply treasured, published in 1987, and in the 1925 Neka Camon yearbook on page 120.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on July 7, 2006 with George Dale (born 1940). Former Commissioner of Insurance for the State of Mississippi, Mr. Dale now serves as Public Policy Advisor for the law offices of Baker, Donelson. Dale discusses...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on September 4, 2008 with John Hairston, Chief Executive Officer of Hancock Bank, Gulfport, Mississippi. Mr. Hairston discusses his family history, experience during Hurrican Katrina, and the economic impact...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on November 12, 1981 and February 6, 1982 with Judge J. P. Coleman. Coleman was born on December 9, 1914 in Fentress, Mississippi. After attending the University of Mississippi, he was invited to work in...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on February 21, 2007 with Aimee Gautier-Dugger, who describes her experience waiting out the storm in Gautier, the city her ancestors founded, and the struggle to regroup after the storm.
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...
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.; Mr. John Sherman Crubaugh was born April 12, 1913. During his college years at Mississippi State, from 1931, he worked to pay for his education. After he received a B.S. degree and an M.Ed. degree from Mississippi State University,...
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...
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.; Tommie Dukes Sr. was born in 1906 in Richardson, Mississippi, a town that no longer exists. Mr. Dukes played baseball at Alcorn College and then played for semi-pro and Negro League teams. Among other teams, he played for the Memphis...
Oral history.; Mr. David M. "Boo" Ferriss was born December 5, 1921, in Shaw, Mississippi. Mr. Ferriss graduated from Mississippi State University and served in the Army Air Corps in World War II. Spending forty-four years as a player and coach in...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on December 14, 1972 with Mr. Percy Greene at his office in Jackson, Mississippi. Greene was born on September 7, 1897 in Jackson, Mississippi and died on April 16, 1977. He was very active in the civil rights...
