Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 3, 1976 with Dr. William A. Butts at his office on the campus of the University of Southern Mississippi. Butts was born in 1933 near Kilmichael, Mississippi. After graduating high school, he went on to...
Oral history.; Miss Oseola McCarty was born on March 7, 1908, in Wayne County, Mississippi. McCarty attended Eureka Elementary School until the sixth grade when she dropped out to care for an aunt who was ill. While still in school, McCarty began...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on June 7, 1999 with Terri Shaw (born 1940). Ms. Shaw graduated from Antioch College in Yellow springs, Ohio, in 1963, then went to work for the Buffalo (NY) Courier-Express before spending the summer in...
Oral history.; Discusses her childhood education, life at Alcorn State University as a college student, and her early teaching positions. Describes her voting rights lawsuit and the repercussions on her career. Expresses her opinions on school...
Oral history.; Maurice Guyton Turner was born on April 29, 1912, in Greene County, Mississippi. He graduated from Greene County Agriculture High School in 1932. After staying out of school for a year he worked in his brother's grocery store. He...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on February 21, 1980 with the Honorable George M. Yarbrough at his home. Yarbrough was born on August 15, 1916 at Red Banks, Mississippi. Yarbrough served in the U.S. Army during World War II, achieving the rank...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on August 26, 1975 with Earl W. Banks, 1905-1986. He enrolled at Alcorn University in Lorman, Mississippi, for one year, then transferred to Jackson State University where he completed high school. He continued...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; This collection of documents about pending voting legislation in the 1960s. On the first page, James Farmer of the Congress of Racial Equality encourages all branches of the civil rights...
Transcribed copy of an essay on African-American history from 1900-1964, written by Otis Pease for Mississippi Freedom Project workers. Includes brief biographies of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois, and mentions the Myrdal study.
From the Thigpen (S.G.) Papers. Photograph of a store window display for Tennessee Coal and Iron Division featuring a cutout of a farmer, which reads, "TCI Farmer He uses the best."
Photograph of the Baptist Student Center during construction. Text on back of photo: "BSU Center construction is nearing completion. The building is being constructed on the original property purchased by the MS Baptist Convention early in the...
Photograph of Cary Thrash, Herb Ivison, Liz Payne, Larry Payne, Leonard Farmer, Jim Payne, and Senator Trent Lott on their way to the NFC Championship Game in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Featured in the USM Alumni News, vol. 50, no. 4 (Spring 1997) on...
cartoon by John Riedell; Two farmers walk in front to the capital in Wahington D.C. One farmer states,"Maybe we'd got a better hearing with Ev if we raised marigolds!"
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Richard Locher. A farmer in overalls is holding a pail in one hand and a milking stool in the other. He is looking up at a giant cow's udder above him labeled "Milk prices."
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by John Riedell. Hubert Humphrey is shown plowing a field with a donkey labeled "Demo." A farmer riding a tractor alongside Humphrey says, "Excuse me, Mr. Vice-President, but we don't plow with a...
cartoon by John Riedell; Two farmers are standing on the roof of a large bank filled with dirt. The bank is labeled,"soil bank" and the dirt is labeled,"pay dirt." One of the farmers is saying,"I still think it'd be better if we farmers could just...
A collection of six 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...
A collection of eight 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...
A collection of eight 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.; An interview conducted on October 6, 2006 with Fred Dunaway and Caroline Dunaway. Residents of Back Bay, Biloxi, Mr. & Mrs. Dunaway discuss their experiences during and after Hurricane Katrina.
