From the Zoya Zeman Freedom Summer Collection. Transcribed copy of the diary of Dean Hay, a Presbyterian minister from Nebraska, in which he details his trip to Hattiesburg, Mississippi, in February of 1964. The goal of this trip was to aid in the...
Typewritten letter from Matthew Zwerling to his parents, Israel and Florence Zwerling, and Sara, dated June 23, 1964. Discusses voter registration canvassing activities, other aspects of his work in and around Clarksdale, Mississippi, as well as...
Typewritten letter from Matthew Zwerling to his parents, Israel and Florence Zwerling, dated August 3, 1964. Discusses an incident in which Zwerling was arrested for speeding, but not jailed. He also asks his parents for money for the project and...
Photograph of the Sunken Garden, later the site of McLemore Hall. The garden was built in 1932 as a jobs project during the early part of the Depression. Lake Byron is located just to the right of this picture. Both areas were part of a campus...
From the University of Southern Mississippi Art Museum collection. Oil on canvas painting of a man in a boat on a lake, by Baurd. German label, versteigerungshavs. Matth. Pronath sail house of matthew pronath munchechen Augustenstrasse 54...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A milkman is driving a milk truck east to west across a map of Louisiana. The northern part of the state is labeled "North" and the southern part of the state is labeled...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ayatollah Khomeini stands at the open door of a refrigerator that has frozen over. The freezer door has a large button labeled "Release hostages" and is also labeled "Defrost...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Two men labeled, "City council" are shown. One is speaking to the other, who looks dejected. The man is saying, "We might buy NOPSI and part of LP&L...but we can't afford the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. On a map of Louisiana, the northern part of the state is labeled "North Louisiana," and the southern part is labeled, "South Louisiana." At Baton Rouge, the legislature building...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. This cartoon has two parts. In one part, President Lyndon Johnson in Western clothing sits at his desk at the LBJ Ranch in Texas. The desk has many scattered papers and a rustic...
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.; An interview conducted on October 27, 2005 with Louis Gomez. A registered nurse with American Medical Response, Mr. Gomez describes his responsibility for managing a special-needs shelter in Biloxi, Mississippi during Hurricane...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on June 6, 2008 with Rev. Lee J. Adams, Jr., a pastor at Little Rock Baptist Church in Gulfport, MS. Mr. Adams discusses the role of the church in recovering from Hurricane Katrina.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on June 19, 2006 with artist Lori K. Gordon. Ms. Gordon discusses her community, Clermont Harbor, Mississippi, before Hurricane Katrina, as well as her experiences afterward. Pieces from Ms. Gordon's work, The...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on October 26, 2005 with Jessica Beane, a full-time volunteer with Foundation Hope in Bay St. Louis. She desribes leaving her position at the University of Southern Mississippi to aid in recovery efforts on...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on October 27, 2005 with Glynna Dozier. Mrs. Dozier discusses her experiences during and after Hurricane Katrina.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on February 21, 2008 with Mark Currier, who describes his experiences during and after Hurricane Katrina on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
Oral history; An interview conducted on February 21, 2008 with Rev. Rick Brooks, pastor at Main Street Methodist Church in Bay St. Louis, MS. Rev. Brooks describes Hurricane Katrina's destruction to his home and to the community; he also...
Oral history.; Robert Elton Cox was born February 6, 1917, at Mannsdale, Mississippi in Madison County. He attended school in Madison and graduated from Millsaps College in Jackson. He taught and coached for two years before going into the service....
Oral history.; Mr. John Sherman Crubaugh was born April 12, 1913. During his college years at Mississippi State, from 1931, he worked to pay for his education. After he received a B.S. degree and an M.Ed. degree from Mississippi State University,...
