From the Map Collection. A map of the Atlantic ocean between the coasts of Brazil and Guinea. "Pascaarte vande Zee custen van Guinea en Brasilia Van Cabo de Verde tot C de bona Esperanca en van R. de Amazonia tot Rio de la Plata, alles opwassende...
From the Kershner (Charles) Papers. A seven page speech by Charles “Chuck” Kershner, the editor of The Student Printz in spring 1964. The speech was delivered during the Symposium on Social Justice held at USM’s Thad Cochran Center on...
Photograph of four football players dressed in new uniforms. Focus groups that met to consider new uniforms included fans, donors, faculty, and members of the business community and athletic department. Photograph featured in the Talon, vol. 57,...
cartoon by John Riedell; Two farmers are standing on the roof of a large bank filled with dirt. The bank is labeled,"soil bank" and the dirt is labeled,"pay dirt." One of the farmers is saying,"I still think it'd be better if we farmers could just...
Copy of a handwritten letter from Rabbi Philip M. Posner to the family of Rabbi Charles Mantinband. Posner offers sympathy for the death of Mantinband and comments on the Rabbi's courage and dedication to civil rights.
cartoon by Richard Wallmeyer; There are four frames in this cartoon, in which are pictured a professor wearing a bandage on his nose. Each frame also has a caption. The captions, as a paragraph, read as follows:"I've been kicked out of my...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Freedom School student Sharon Hunter sings and claps her hands during a Freedom School class hosted by Morning Star Baptist Church that met during Freedom Summer, 1964 in Hattiesburg,...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs.Three young African American girls sitting together during a Freedom School class at Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer 1964. Freedom School classes often...
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs; Photograph of a large tent shading hundreds of people attending a service. Immanuel Baptist Church, organized in 1907, met in this tent at the corner of Arledge Street and Magnolia Avenue until the first...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on February 27, 1991 in the city hall of Corinth, Mississippi with Mayor Edward S. Bishop, Sr. Bishop was born in Starkville, Mississippi on December 11, 1907. In 1926, he completed high school at Jackson...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on August 29, 1991 with Mr. Richard Boyd and on September 29, 1992 with Mrs. Earline Boyd. Mr. Boyd was born on July 21, 1916 in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. He graduated from Eureka High School in 1935. ...
Oral history.; Ms. Margaret Keith Andresen was born in Biloxi, Mississippi on May 3, 1943. She attended Perkinston High School and the Perkinston Campus of Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College. As a teacher at Moss Point High School from...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on October 21, 1996 with Mr. Charles Cobb (born 1943) in Washington, D.C. In the summer of 1962, he was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) field secretary in Ruleville, Mississippi, where he and...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on February 2, 1976 with James Cohen (born 1920). Since 1953, Mr. Cohen has been active in several civic associations in Hattiesburg and provides insight into the city's race relations and politics from the 1950s...
A collection of ten 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...
A collection of six 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...
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...
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...
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...
