Oral history.; An interview conducted on June 16, 2008 with Rod Dickson-Rishel, pastor of the Mississippi City United Methodist Church. Reverend Dickson-Rishel discusses his experiences during and after Hurricane Katrina.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on March 28, 2006 with Alison Bass, a manager at Biloxi Grand Casino. She describes her experience before, during, and after Hurricane Katrina.
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...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 24, 1981 with Mr. Dave L. Dunaway at his office in Greenville, Mississippi. Dunaway was born on January 2, 1927 near the Enon community in Walthall County, Mississippi. Following his discharge from the...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on September 17, 1980 with the Honorable Tony Byrne, former mayor of Natchez, Mississippi at his office in the Natchez City Hall. Byrne was born on May 18, 1936 in Natchez, Mississippi. He attended Mississippi...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 19, 1975 with Otho Monroe (born 1912). Mr. Monroe was superintendent of the Senatobia School District from 1949 until 1968, when he resigned in protest of school desegregation.
Oral history.; Interview conducted on June 8, 1976, with Will D. Campbell. Mr. Campbell, born in Amite County, Mississippi, was ordained as a pastor at the age of 17. He first became aware of race relations during time spent in the military, when...
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.; Peoples discusses his presidency at Jackson State University, racism in the Marine Corps in the 1940s, the Mississippi Humanities Council, and race relations in Mississippi.
From the Kate Greenaway Papers. Manuscript. "Sonnet." Beautiful lady lying white and prone... 4 stanza verse. Accompanies the watercolors in box 6, Folders 51-53 with the following Identifiers: mus.dg0391.0271, mus.dg0391.0272, mus.dg0391.0271.
Photograph of students lying on mattresses outside the ticket office, waiting to buy football tickets. The photograph is also found on page 142 of Chester M. Morgan's Dearly bought, deeply treasured, published in 1987.
From the University of Southern Mississippi Art Museum collection. Oil on masonite figure study of a nude woman with red hair lying on a green blanket, by Marian Sacks.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Hy Rosen. Richard Nixon reclines on a sofa with a book titled The Final Days, written by Woodward and Bernstein, lying open face down on his body. Behind the sofa, a series of four pictures...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Stampone. The horizon line of the cartoon is the curve of the earth, with Paris and the Eiffel Tower on the horizon and Vietnam in the foreground. A giant megaphone with a hammer and...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man wearing a royal robe and crown is lying among rubble. The wall behind him is labeled “Perez dynasty.” The man is looking toward a strong castle, labeled “Kingdom of...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Two 55-gallon drums are in the foreground at the edge of a body of water, and in the background are other drums. All drums show marks that indicate corrosion. A drum in the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man labeled, "Candidate for state office" sits on a large rock next to a raod or track labeled, "Statewide races." The man wears running gear and is reading a book with...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. In the jungle in Vietnam, an American soldier is on duty lying at the entrance of an open bunker holding a machine gun. Across the top of the bunker entrance are the words,...
