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...
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Retold by R. Marriott Watson, L.L. Weldon, Emily Bennett, A.M. Hoyer, & others. Published in London by Nister and in New York by E.P. Dutton, in 1870. Illustrations signed: E. Nister. Title page...
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Adapted and illustrated by W.W. Denslow. Published in New York by G.W. Dillingham, in 1903. Cover title. "W.W. Denslow ... has improved [this story] by elimination of all coarseness, cruelty,...
From the Map Collection. Four maps on one sheet. Map A: parts of eastern Canada, including Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Map B: New England, including New York, New Jersey, and part of Pennsylvania. Map C:...
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...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Reprint of a newspaper article from Vicksburg Citizens' Appeal about the Madison County Sewing Firm in Canton, Mississippi. Formed in 1965, the all-Black company provided employment to those who...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on January 23, 1973 with Mr. William Dukes in his office in Gulfport, Mississippi. Dukes was born in the Sullivans' Hollow area near Raleigh, in Smith County, Mississippi on January 15, 1927. After his discharge...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on May 17, 1972 with Associate Justice Thomas Pickens Brady, of the Supreme Court of Mississippi in his chambers in Jackson, Mississippi. This is the second part of an interview conducted on March 4, 1972 with...
Oral history. Interview conducted on March 4, 1972 with Associate Justice Thomas Pickens Brady, of the Supreme Court of Mississippi in his chambers in Jackson, Mississippi. Brady was born on August 6, 1903, in New Orleans, Louisiana. He...
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. This book is part 2 of 3 volumes. Published in Boston by T.H. Carter, in 1837. Part of the series Stories and rhymes for children ; no. 10.
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. By H.A. Rey. Includes two of six plates from the book with decoupages that can be colored and cut out to build a colorful airport scene. Text in French. Part of the NRF series.
Letter, dated 1 November 1872, written by Joseph Reid Anderson, president and owner of Tredegar Iron Works in Richmond, Virginia to the New York firm of Messrs. Niel, Davidson & Co. relating to the payment of a bill.
Transcribed copy of a typewritten letter from P.D. East to friends, dated November 13, 1962, in which East discusses the continuous harassment to which he is subjected in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. He also mentions the case of Clyde Kennard, an...
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Published in Cincinatti, Ohio by Peter G. Thomson, in 1884. Title, imprint, and series statement from cover. P. [2] and [3] of cover included in pagination. "Indestructible". Part of the Little...
From the Map Collection. Map of Mississippi in 1838, showing counties. Longitude given in degrees west from Washington. Map by T.G. Bradford, engraved by S. Stiles, Sherman & Smith, New York. Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1838 by...
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...
