Oral history.; Interview conducted on November 6, 1979 with Dr. Arthur Lewis, emeritus professor of mathematics, emeritus professor of physics and astronomy, and emeritus Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Mississippi. Lewis...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on August 23 and October 30, 1974 with Mr. Joe Reyer at his home in Poplarville, Mississippi. Reyer was born in 1893 in Pearl River County, Mississippi. He attended an agricultural high school, now Pearl...
Oral history.; Dr. Sam Spinks was born on March 19, 1921, in Henleyfield, Mississippi. Dr. Spinks attended Henleyfield High School, Pearl River Junior College, The University of Southern Mississippi and The University of Florida. He served in the...
From the Goodyear Yellow Pine Company Photographs. Photograph of Camp Anderson logging camp of the Goodyear Yellow Pine Company of Picayune, Mississippi. A dirt road is lined with duplex wooden cottages and the two story Pine Grove Inn. A small...
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...
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...
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 January 21, 2006 with Natalie C. Brown. Miss Brown lived near the Tulane campus during Hurricane Katrina and describes her evacuation and return to the city.
Oral history.; Gwin E. Douglas was born on November 9, 1923, in State Line, Mississippi. Douglas graduated from Leakesville High School in 1942 and worked briefly with his father in the naval store and the timber businesses until he was drafted...
Oral history.; Three interviews conducted on December 12, 1975, January 19, 1976, and January 23, 1991 with Mr. C.J. Duckworth in his office in Jackson, Mississippi. Duckworth was born in Summerland, Mississippi, Smith County, on February 25,...
Oral history.; Discusses Clarence Magee's family, his responsibilities on the farm, and first memories of racism. Talks about the African American schools around Columbia, Mississippi. Describes his attempts to register to vote in Hattiesburg and...
Oral history.; Maurice Guyton Turner was born on April 29, 1912, in Greene County, Mississippi. He graduated from Greene County Agriculture High School in 1932. After staying out of school for a year he worked in his brother's grocery store. He...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on December 6, 1983 with Mr. William Raspberry in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Raspberry was born on October 12, 1935 in Okolona, Mississippi. He graduated in 1958 with a BS in history from Indian Central College....
From the Goodyear Yellow Pine Company Photographs. Photograph of skidder timber harvesting operations at the Goodyear Yellow Pine Company of Picayune, Mississippi. Large, double-ended skidder with tank car. Work crew and possibly L.O. Crosby in...
From the Major-Sowers Saw Mill Photographs Collection. Photograph of a saw mill worker standing on a stack of timber at Major-Sowers Company, Tallahala site; 8 x 10
From the Goodyear Yellow Pine Company Photographs. Photograph of skidder railroad track removal at the Goodyear Yellow Pine Company of Picayune, Mississippi. Work crew is taking up railroad ties and loading them on a railroad car. The photograph...
From the Goodyear Yellow Pine Company Photographs. Photograph of the log train of the Goodyear Yellow Pine Company of Picayune, Mississippi. A railroad crane is loading logs. The photograph was taken by John N. Teunisson of New Orleans, Louisiana.
From the Goodyear Yellow Pine Company Photographs. Photograph of skidder timber harvesting operations of the Goodyear Yellow Pine Company of Picayune, Mississippi. Railroad car crane loading logs. One of the men standing on the logs is possibly...
