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 8, 1994 with Mrs. Elizabeth Price (born 1897). In the mid-1960s, Mrs. Price worked for the Civil Rights Commission, investigating and documenting issues of mistreatment as well as recruiting sympathizers....
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on November 12, 1981 and February 6, 1982 with Judge J. P. Coleman. Coleman was born on December 9, 1914 in Fentress, Mississippi. After attending the University of Mississippi, he was invited to work in...
Oral history.; Mr. Coygon Robinson Jr. was born in Biloxi, Mississippi, on December 3, 1951. He attended Perkins Elementary School and Nichols High School. In the fifth grade, Mr. Robinson got his first set of drums, and he continued to practice...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on July 17, 2007 with Chris Rowell, who describes Hurricane Katrina's impact on Hattiesburg and his experiences in the days following the storm.
Oral history.; Interview conducted on August 15, 1978 with Mr. Thomas Y. Minniece. Minniece was born in Meridian, Mississippi on October 9, 1912. He received a BA degree from the University of Texas in 1933 and a law degree from the University of...
Copy of a typewritten newsletter, the Mantinband Megillah, from Rabbi Charles and Anna Mantinband to friends dated 1963, in which the Mantinbands discuss events in their life during the past year. Included in the letter is information about their...
From the University of Southern Mississippi Art Museum collection. Oil on canvas painting of a river running through a gorge with reddish colored mountains, by Jack Bartlett.
Oral history.; Ms. Frances Elkin Joyner was born on November 23, 1909, in Tupelo, Mississippi. She graduated from Tupelo High School and then attended National Park Seminary in Forest Glen, Maryland. She married Ernest Love Joyner, Jr. just...
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.; 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...
From the Emilie and Marie Stapp Collection. Amelia Siedler was 10 years when she created this diary documenting her family's move from Iowa to Arkansas in a covered wagon from 28 December 1895 - 27 February 1896.
From the Hardy (William H. and Sallie J.) Papers. Letter from William Hardy to Sallie Hardy; written from Doctor Jones's, three miles from Gordonsville, Virginia.
