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...
Photograph of the 1920 Mississippi Normal College football team. First row: Zac Lee, Muty Campbell, [?] Parsons, O.P. O'Marrow, Lynn McClesky, Dewey Lane, Glenn Vensore. Second row: Jim Montgomery, Reggie Williams, Red Holliman, Jim (Black) Busby....
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...
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Published in New York by McLoughlin Bros., Inc., in 1908. Title and imprint from cover. Four leaves printed on flannel cloth and folded. This copy is incomplete. Acquired from Justin G....
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Published in New York by McLoughlin Bros., Inc., copyright 1888. Title, imprint, and series statements from cover. Several pages are lacking, which makes the story incomplete. "Printed on...
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. A series of essays by Freedom Summer volunteer Carl Young. Young discusses his reasons for volunteering, describes his duties and the working conditions in Holly Springs, and provides details on...
From the Spears (Lawrence D.) Civil Rights Collection. Untitled Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) memo summarizing two statements given to the FBI regarding the attack on Lawrence Spears, David Owen, and Rabbi Arthur Lelyveld on July 10,...
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. The first page of an incomplete newsletter from the Holly Springs Freedom House; deals with legal issues and general news.
From the Adams (Victoria Gray) Papers. Newsletter for Southern Conference Educational Fund (SCEF) staff, dated May 24, 1968. Includes activity updates by SCEF staff members and discusses the Deep South Project, Southern Mountain Project, and...
Transcribed copy of a report by the General Legislative Committee of Mississippi based on findings from an investigation of the occupation of the University of Mississippi in 1962 by the United States Department of Justice. Action was taken in...
Transcribed copy of an essay on African-American history from 1900-1964, written by Otis Pease for Mississippi Freedom Project workers. Includes brief biographies of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois, and mentions the Myrdal study.
Transcribed copy of a document detailing the curriculum of Freedom Schools. Begins with a Table of Contents showing the major curriculum divisions: academic, citizenship, and recreational and artistic. Also gives details of activities and materials...
Transcribed copy of a typewritten document by Reverend Bob Beech, director of the Hattiesburg Minister's Project. He provides an account of the activities and accomplishments of the Delta Ministry in Hattiesburg in 1964 with regard to voter...
From the McLoughlin Brothers Papers. 2 page incomplete typescript of Rumpelstiltskin illustrated by Sari (Springfield: McLoughlin Bros., 1941) Little color classics #889, from the books series of the McLoughlin Brother Papers. The McLoughlin...
From the McLoughlin Brothers Papers. Galley, incomplete, 3 sets for Stars and Stripes Forever: Stories and Poems of "Old Glory" illustrated by Priscilla Pointer (Springfield: McLoughlin Bros., 1943) Westfield classics #53, from the books series of...
From the McLoughlin Brothers Papers. Galleys, incomplete sets, some marked with pagination, (8 pp.) from Around the World with Children and Dogs by Diana Thorne (Springfield: McLoughlin, 1940) Little color classics #839, from the books series of...
