Oral history.; An interview conducted on February 21, 2008 with Mark Currier, who describes his experiences during and after Hurricane Katrina on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
Oral history.; Robert Elton Cox was born February 6, 1917, at Mannsdale, Mississippi in Madison County. He attended school in Madison and graduated from Millsaps College in Jackson. He taught and coached for two years before going into the service....
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 15, 1994 with Bennie Gooden. As one of the founding members of the Southern Education Recreation Association (SERA), Mr. Gooden wrote the grant proposal to fund Coahoma County's first Head Start program...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on July 30, 1980 with Mr. Erle Johnston at his home in Forest, Mississippi. Johnston was born on October 10, 1917 in Garyville, Louisiana. In 1941, he moved Forest, Mississippi and bought the fledgling newspaper,...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on October 28, 1993 with Judge Michael L. Carr (born 1920). He moved to Mississippi when he received an appointment to serve as law clerk to Edwin R. Holmes, U.S. circuit judge for the Fifth Circuit Court of...
Oral history.; Mr. Wesley C. Webb was born in Biloxi, Mississippi, on April 2, 1938. After his graduation from high school, Mr. Webb entered the Navy, boarding the U.S.S. Helena for Japan. For two years and nine months, Mr. Webb served in the...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on October 13, 1993 with Mr. Kenneth O. Williams at the new state capitol building in Jackson, Mississippi. Williams was born on January 18, 1924 in Clarksdale, Mississippi. He received a BA in political science...
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.; Obie Clark was born October 31, 1932, near DeKalb, Mississippi. He earned a degree from Mississippi Industrial College and did additional college work at the University of Minnesota. For many years he taught school in Meridian,...
Oral history.; Dr. John Paul Quon was born June 11, 1942, in Moorhead, Mississippi. His parents emigrated from China to Mississippi to participate in a family-owned grocery store. Dr. Quon was in the first public school class in Mississippi that...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on November 14, 1995 with Dr. Barry Clemson (born 1941). He attributes his interest in civil rights work in part to his membership in the Church of the Brethren, one of the "key civil rights churches." Clemson was...
From the Emilie and Marie Stapp Collection. Proclamation issued by Governor Harding calling upon the boys and girls of Iowa to give their pennies to the Happy Tribe fund for French and Belgian war orphans. The goal is one million pennies.
From the Emilie and Marie Stapp Collection. Photograph of a soldier and his family at the "Glory to France" celebration of French independence, at Westchester Gardens, home of Izanna Chamberlain on Grand Ave., in Des Moines, Iowa.
From the Emilie and Marie Stapp Collection. The Governor of Alabama issued a proclamation calling upon the children of Alabama to help the Happy Tribe raise one million pennies fro the children in war devastated Europe. How well they responded to...
From the Emilie and Marie Stapp Collection. Photograph of three girls at the "Glory to France" celebration of French independence, at Westchester Gardens, home of Izanna Chamberlain on Grand Ave., in Des Moines, Iowa.
From the Sarah E. Allen Burns Collection; Sarah Allen Burns with her class in Rockport, Mississippi. After Sarah received her certificate from Mississippi Normal College in 1913, she went on to her first teaching job in Rockport, Mississippi,...
From the Adams (Victoria Gray) Papers. Report of voter registration information for various locations in Mississippi. Information is divided by county, volunteer center, area, and "new centers."
From the Campbell (Will D.) Papers; Notes regarding P.D. East and the future of his newspaper, The Petal Paper. The writer had been in touch with East to gather information regarding the precarious future of his paper after suffering economic...
From the Zeman (Zoya) Freedom Summer Collection. Cover letter from Staughton Lynd and Harold Bardanelli of Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) in Jackson, Mississippi, to Freedom School volunteer teachers. The cover letter gives...
