Oral history.; Father Peter Oliver Quinn was born on April 11, 1937, in Ireland. He was ordained when he was twenty-five years old in Ireland, and he came to Mississippi in September, 1962. Father Quinn's first assignment was at Sacred Heart...
From the Kate Greenaway Papers. Unsigned graphite sketch for the book "A Apple Pie," published in 1886. "T Took It" page. 28 x 19 cm. (15 x 12 cm. and 5 studies) Short-haired girl with upraised arms. Girl in green striped dress in book. Study #1 is...
A four-page typed letter to the Editor of the Kalamazoo Gazette from Joe Ellin [?], dated August 1, 1964. The letter describes the public school system in Hattiesburg and Forrest County, Mississippi. Integration and segregation in the schools and...
From the Alexander Melvorne Jackson Papers. Photograph of Miguel Otero, Mary Blackwood Otero (Miguel Otero's wife), and an enslaved Black girl, photograph taken circa 1860s. The Oteros are sitting at a table with tea cups on it while a young Black...
Photograph of Dr. Lena de Grummond, professor of Library Science, as she gives Brownie Scouts Robin Dunnam and Jamie Ambrose a tour of a collection of dolls from the home of sisters Emilie and Marie Stapp. The Stapp sisters' home was known as the...
Photograph of Sybel Hardy and Pewee Hinton as the Biggest Girl Flapper and Campus Sheik. Also found in Dearly Bought, Deeply Treasured on page 48, and in the 1925 Neka Camon yearbook on page 137; 5 x 7
From the AAEC Editorial Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A small girl, walking and holding a schoolbook under one arm, is being followed by a white lamb labeled "Desegregation school days." The girl and lamb are looking back over their...
cartoon by Richard Wallmeyer; A boy and a girl stand before a water well labeled "Gov't [Government] survey reports water in peril in some areas of U.S." The boy, carrying a pail, is labeled "Jack" and the girl is labeled "Jill" Jack says to...
cartoon by Richard Wallmeyer; It is night time in a leafless forest. A witch labeled "Revolution" stands in the doorway of a gingerbread house nestled within the trees. With a crooked finger she beckons a boy and a girl to come into the house. ...
cartoon by John Knudsen; A boy and a girl stand in the upper right corner of the cartoon, hodling hands. They are wearing clothes that are far too small for them. The girl's dress reads "$600.00 allowance for dependents set up in 1948." In the...
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. ...
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 July 30, 2007 with Cheryl Ann Blain, an engineer and oceanographer at Stennis Space Center. Dr. Blain describes her personal struggles with Hurricane Katrina as well as many of the environmental and...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on July 28, 1981 with Reverend Clinton Collier at the Methodist Church in Morton, Mississippi. Collier was born on August 24, 1910 [i.e. 1909] in rural Neshoba County. After completing the eighth grade, which...
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...
