Oral history.; An interview conducted on February 22, 2007 with Dorothy Burney, a retired Biloxi schoolteacher, who describes her experiences during and after Hurricane Katrina on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
Oral history.; Interview conducted on October 21, 1999 with Dr. Sandra Adickes (born 1933). In 1963, Dr. Adickes taught African-Americans in freedom school efforts in Prince Edward County, Virginia. In 1964, she was recruited to teach in...
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 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...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on August 20, 1997 and August 28, 1997 with Peter H. Stewart (born 1934). He began teaching school in Edwards, Mississippi, in the fall of 1961. In August 1969, he worked for Friends of Children, a Head Start...
Transcribed copy of a document detailing the curriculum of Freedom Schools. Begins with a Table of Contents showing the major curriculum divisions: academic, citizenship, and recreational and artistic. Also gives details of activities and materials...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on December 6, 1983 with Mr. William Raspberry in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Raspberry was born on October 12, 1935 in Okolona, Mississippi. He graduated in 1958 with a BS in history from Indian Central College....
From the Ashley Bryan Papers.; Front and back of illustrated notecard created by Ashley Bryan for Christmas Gif': An Anthology of Christmas Poems, Songs, and Stories (1993). 8.5" x 5.5"
From the Ashley Bryan Papers.; Signed and matted proof for illustration created by Ashley Bryan for Christmas Gif': An Anthology of Christmas Poems, Songs, and Stories (1993). 5.5" x 7"
From the Ashley Bryan Papers.; Signed and matted proof for illustration created by Ashley Bryan for Christmas Gif': An Anthology of Christmas Poems, Songs, and Stories (1993). 6" x 5.5"
From the Isabel Wilner Papers.; Photograph of children choosing poems in the library during a reading of Isabel Wilner's Poetry Troupe: An Anthology of Poems to Read Aloud (1977), [circa 1978]. 5" x 3.5"
From the Isabel Wilner Papers.; Photograph of Isabel Wilner "listening to recording children have made of poems in The Poetry Troupe: An Anthology of Poems to Read Aloud (1977)" [circa 1978]. 5" x 4.5"
From the Isabel Wilner Papers.; Photograph of Isabel Wilner and children "choosing poems from books in the library" for a reading of The Poetry Troupe: An Anthology of Poems to Read Aloud (1977), [circa 1978]. 5" x 4.5"
From the Isabel Wilner Papers.; Photograph of third graders reading poems from Isabel Wilner's The Poetry Troupe: An Anthology of Poems to Read Aloud (1977) to four year olds [circa 1978]. 5" x 4.5"
From the Kate Greenaway Papers. Around the House: Stories and Poems with illustrations by Kate Greenaway. New York: Worthington, 1888. Illustration also used on the cover of The Illustrated London News Christmas Number 1882. drawing, pencil (33 x...
From the Kate Greenaway Papers. Autograph letter signed. 2 pp. on 1 folded leaf. (15.5 x 10 cm.) To Mr. [Edward] Bok from Kate Greenaway at Hampstead dated 21 December 1894. On mourning stationery. [This letter was written to Edward Bok, publisher...
From the Kate Greenaway Papers. Little Ann and other poems by Ann and Jane Taylor, illustrated by Kate Greenaway (London: Routledge, [1883]). "The Rowfant Quartos" tearsheet using illustration from dedication page in Little Ann.
From the Kate Greenaway Papers. Little Ann and other poems by Ann and Jane Taylor, illustrated by Kate Greenaway (London: Routledge, [1883]). One side of a printed invitation for Kate Greenaway's exhibition at The Fine Arts Society February 7,...
From the Kate Greenaway Papers. Little Ann and other poems by Ann and Jane Taylor, illustrated by Kate Greenaway (London: Routledge, [1883]). Pen & ink drawing using "The Good-Natured Girls" illustration from p. 21; 7 x 5.5
