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 Feodor Rojankovsky Papers.; Watercolor illustration of Daniel Boone created by Feodor Rojankovsky for Daniel Boone: Historic Adventures of An American Hunter Among the Indians (1931). 7" x 5.5"
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. A Freedom School class hosted by Morning Star Baptist Church meets during Freedom Summer, 1964, on the lawn outside the church, located in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Students who have been...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. A Freedom School class hosted by Morning Star Baptist Church meets during Freedom Summer, 1964 on the lawn outside the church, located in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Students who have been...
Photograph of three visiting Japanese businessmen with ISS director, John Hunter McVay (upper right.) Also found in the Student Printz 09/09/1997 on page 8.
Oral history.; Interview conducted on July 12, 1973 with Mr. Jerry Clower at his office in Yazoo City, Mississippi. Clower was born in 1926 at Route Four, Liberty, Mississippi. After graduating from high school, he joined the U.S. Navy. On...
From the Hamlett (Ed) White Folks Project Collection. Dial Parratt, a Princeton University student from Mississippi, writes to a friend, Hunter (last name unknown), to inquire about a freedom march in which Princeton students were invited to...
Message of the President to the Senate and House of Representatives; Includes Report of the Commissioners, Alexander H. Stephens, R.M.T. Hunter, and J.A. Campbell; Also includes Extract from Mr. Lincoln's Message of December Last, Referred to in...
A collection of ten 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 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...
Oral history.; Mr. Alvin L. Fielder Sr. was born December 7, 1900 in Newton County, Mississippi. Mr. Fielder moved to Meehan Junction, Mississippi in 1913 and remained there until 1918, when he moved to Meridian. In 1918 he was a lumberyard saw...
Oral history.; Mr. George A. Stevens was born in 1910 in Forrest County, Mississippi. He attended Hattiesburg public schools but graduated from high school in Anthony, New Mexico. Mr. Stevens returned to attend The University of Southern...
Oral history.; Discusses her father, Erle Johnston. Describes his relations with Ross Barnett and his work with the State Sovereignty Commission, which she denies was ever a spy organization.
Oral history.; A native of Mississippi, Mrs. Bates received degrees from Tougaloo College and West Virginia University, with further study at the University of Colorado and the University of Denver. She has been a resident of Denver, Colorado, for...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on October 27, 2006 with Hunter Dunaway in which he discusses his experiences during and after Hurricane Katrina.
Oral history.; Three interviews conducted on August 8 and 10, 1976 and October 19, 1976 with Jesse Boyce Holleman (born 1924). He served in the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1947 until 1953. At that time, he became district attorney for...
Oral history.; Mrs. Laura Mae Davenport was born in Gholson, Mississippi, on October 22, 1908. She attended the Noxubee County Agricultural High School before moving to Shuqualak to finish high school in 1927. She began a teaching career 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.; Interview conducted on March 23, 1977 with Mr. Jimmy Swan. Swan was born in Cullman County, Alabama. He ran away from home when he was thirteen or fourteen and ended up in Wayne County, Mississippi. Swan sang in nightclubs and...
Oral history.; Mr. King T. Evans was born on March 19, 1913 near Uniontown, Alabama, in Perry County. In 1925, Mr. Evans moved to Mississippi with his parents. His father was a mechanic and farmer. For a brief period, Mr. Evans attended the...
