A Bill: To be entitled, "An Act to amend the existing Acts for the exemption of persons from military service." Mr Perkins moved the following as an amendment to the Exemption Bill, reported from the Committee on Military Affairs; enacted by the...
Transcribed copy of a report by the General Legislative Committee of Mississippi based on findings from an investigation of the occupation of the University of Mississippi in 1962 by the United States Department of Justice. Action was taken in...
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...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; A group of children attending a Freedom School class at Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer in 1964, sit on the church steps with their teacher. The...
Photograph of the Southern Arena Theatre (earlier called Southern Arena Playhouse) being moved to a location near the Education and Psychology Building. Theatre professor Gilbert Hartwig listens as another man talks about details of the move....
Resolutions: Relating to the war and negotiations for peace. By Mr. Barksdale, moved as substitute for Mr. Turner's resolutions; Ordered to be printed by the Congress of the Confederate States of America on 16 December 1864.
Joint Resolutions: Requiring the settlement of the accounts of the Post-Office Department prior to the first day of July 1863. By Mr. Baldwin, moved as substitute for bill reported by Committee of Ways and Means; Ordered to be printed by the...
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs; Photograph of the Hulett Undertaking Company, located on the corner of Eaton and Forrest Streets, circa 1920. When the company moved to Bay Street, this building was converted to a Sinclair service...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 24, 1972 with Dr. William Penn Davis at his home in Jackson, Mississippi. Davis was born in Union County, Mississippi on August 5, 1903. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Mississippi College in...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on December 3, 1971 with the Honorable Charles Evers at his office in Fayette, Mississippi. Evers was born on September 11, 1922 in Decatur, Mississippi. In 1950, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in social...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on May 18, 1972 with Ms. Ruby Magee at College Hall at the University of Southern Mississippi. Magee was born in 1940 in Tylertown, Mississippi. In 1962, she received a BA in history and political science from...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on July 12, 1973 with Mr. Jerry Clower at his office in Yazoo City, Mississippi. Clower was born in 1926 at Route Four, Liberty, Mississippi. After graduating from high school, he joined the U.S. Navy. On...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on January 23, 1973 with Mr. William Dukes in his office in Gulfport, Mississippi. Dukes was born in the Sullivans' Hollow area near Raleigh, in Smith County, Mississippi on January 15, 1927. After his discharge...
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...
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of students as they moved from the junior high at Hattiesburg High School to the newly built Hawkins Junior High.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of students as they moved from the junior high at Hattiesburg High School to the newly built Hawkins Junior High.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of students as they moved from the junior high at Hattiesburg High School to the newly built Hawkins Junior High.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of students as they moved from the junior high at Hattiesburg High School to the newly built Hawkins Junior High.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of the PA system on the day that students moved from the junior high at Hattiesburg High School to the newly built Hawkins Junior High.
