One-page document dated December 4, 1871 and drafted by the Mississippi State Legislature requesting return of Federal lands first granted in 1856 for the purpose of building the Gulf and Ship Island Railroad. The Gulf and Ship Island Railroad was...
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 Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Freedom School student Anthony Harris sits at a table writing in a notebook at the Freedom School hosted by Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer, 1964.
From the Adams County Police & Miscellaneous County Records. Application from a free black named Charles Harris for a license to remain in Natchez, signed by various Natchez citizens and dated 30 July 1856.
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 Harris (Merry B.) Papers. Bond dated 29 January 1861, and signed by Captain Merry B. Harris in the amount of $900 is for the purchase of 60 muskets. Harris was a resident of Copiah County, Mississippi. He served as a captain and later...
From the University of Southern Mississippi Art Museum collection. Ink on paper certificate issued by the Commander and Chief of the United Confederate Veterans confirming W.H. Hardy as Historian of the Mississippi Chapter. Dated 6 June 1903.
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Published in London by John Harris, corner of St. Paul's Church-Yard, circa 1825. Bound in mauve paper covers. Illustrations are hand colored. Contents: Courtship, merry marriage, and pic-nic...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Local civil rights leader Daisy Harris assists with a Freedom School class during Freedom Summer, 1964. The class was probably held at Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
From the Hardy (William H. and Sallie J.) Papers. Gravesite of Sallie Ann Hardy in Paulding, Mississippi; includes two images on a single sheet of photo paper.
From the Hardy (William H. and Sallie J.) Papers. Inscription on back says, “My mother's grave and the monument -Paulding, Miss." Probably the gravestone of Sally Ann Hardy.
