Oral history.; Norman discusses the creation and work of the Mississippi Humanities Council, the people responsible for its early development, and its programs concerning race relations and public education.
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on May 21, 1974 and January 26, 1976 with the Honorable Mildred Wells Norris. Norris was born in Ovett, Mississippi. She studied for one year at Mississippi State College for Women. Norris started working...
Oral history.; Interviews conducted on October 3, 1994 and October 10, 1994 with Mrs. Jane Menefee Schutt (born 1913). Mrs. Schutt was appointed to the Mississippi Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and served four years, the...
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 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 May 8, 1971 with the Honorable Ross Robert Barnett in Jackson, Mississippi. Barnett was born on January 22, 1898 in Leake County, Mississippi. He graduated with his B.A. from Mississippi College in 1924. In...
Oral history.; Reverend Sammie Rash was born in Sunflower County, Mississippi, on July 31, 1942. His parents were sharecroppers, and in 1949 they moved the family to the McGann plantation in Bolivar County, where Reverend Rash grew up. In 1963...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 30, 1977 with the Reverend Sammie Rash (born 1942). Reverend Rash, the son of sharecroppers, has been very active in both civil rights activities and Mississippi politics, in addition to being a minister...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on April 2, 1972 with Mr. R. Jess Brown in Jackson, Mississippi. Brown was born in Coffeeville, Kansas, on September 2, 1912, and was raised in Oklahoma. He received a Bachelor of Science degree from Illinois...
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. 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. 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.
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Published in London by Frederick Warne, circa 1870s. Cover title. Publisher's ads on back cover. Part of Warne's Excelsior London toy books: New Series.
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 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 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...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Ed Valtman. A crowd of men carrying journalists' notebooks run as one and have stampeded over Hubert Humphrey, knocking him to the ground. One of the men carries a sign labeled "Pollsters," and...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on February 27, 1991 in the city hall of Corinth, Mississippi with Mayor Edward S. Bishop, Sr. Bishop was born in Starkville, Mississippi on December 11, 1907. In 1926, he completed high school at Jackson...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on August 29, 1991 with Mr. Richard Boyd and on September 29, 1992 with Mrs. Earline Boyd. Mr. Boyd was born on July 21, 1916 in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. He graduated from Eureka High School in 1935. ...
