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.; Reverend Sammie Rash was born in Sunflower County, Mississippi, on July 31, 1942. His parents were sharecroppers, and in 1949 they moved the family to the McGann plantation in Bolivar County, where Reverend Rash grew up. In 1963...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 30, 1977 with the Reverend Sammie Rash (born 1942). Reverend Rash, the son of sharecroppers, has been very active in both civil rights activities and Mississippi politics, in addition to being a minister...
Oral history.; Four interviews conducted on October 1, 2, and 23 of 1975, and July 1, 1976 with Mr. Hugh Clegg at his home in Anguilla, Mississippi. Clegg was born on July 17, 1898 in Mathiston, Mississippi. Clegg graduated from Millsaps...
Oral history.; Mr. Augustus (Gus) Ashby Sr. was born in 1924, in Washington, D.C. and moved to Tupelo where he became active in the local church. After high school, he attended college in Holly Springs and Okolona, Mississippi. He was a member of...
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs. The Leaf River Camp Number 28 (Hattiesburg, Mississippi) Woodmen of the World marching band posed on the front steps of the Forrest County Courthouse.
From the Belcher (Granville W. and Mary Caroline) Letters. Granville W. Belcher, a farmer from Martinsville, Henry County, Virginia, served in company F, 57th Virginia Infantry during the Civil War. Belcher writes to his wife, Mary Caroline, on...
Memoir written by Jack E. Pitts, a private soldier in Company K, First Virginia Cavalry, Confederate Army, of his experiences in General J.E.B. Stuart's raid around the Army of the Potomac outside of Richmond, Virginia, in the summer of 1862. Pitts...
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of the Hattiesburg High School marching band drum major and majorettes.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of a marching band in formation on the field at the Mississippi Southern College football stadium.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of a marching band in formation on the field at the Mississippi Southern College football stadium.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of a marching band in formation on the field at the Mississippi Southern College football stadium.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of a marching band in formation on the field at the Mississippi Southern College football stadium.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of a marching band in formation on the field at the Mississippi Southern College football stadium.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of a marching band taken during the Mississippi Southern College homecoming parade in downtown Hattiesburg.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of a marching band in the Mississippi Southern College homecoming parade.