From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Freedom Summer volunteers and local activists at a meeting held in an African American church in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer 1964. Volunteer Johanna "Johnnie" Winchester is...
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 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.; Interview conducted on December 1, 1994 with Judge Harvey T. Ross (born 1920). In the mid-1960s, Judge Ross was active in laying the groundwork for Coahoma Opportunities, Inc. (COI), a community action agency designed to improve the...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on November 16, 1977 with George Rogers (born 1927). Mr. Rogers, a Rhodes Scholar, was elected to the Mississippi House of Representatives, where he served for more than twenty years. He became well known for his...
From the Hardy (William H. and Sallie J.) Papers. Mrs. Martha Albritton responds to Mayor's Proclamation at Hardy Letters Presentation in McCain Library. Standing next to pillar is Joe Townsend, Chief Financial Officer, City of Hattiesburg,...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; A meeting of COFO-Hattiesburg Project volunteers in an African-American church in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer, 1964. The meeting appears to be presided over by Sandy Leigh,...
