Materials in this collection were donated by William M. Colmer: First accession-1970. Additional information online at: http://www.lib.usm.edu/legacy/archives/m024.htm
Oral history.; An interview with Marnie Herrington conducted on October 1, 2005. Ms. Herrington discusses her experience during and after Hurricane Katrina in Crystal Springs, Mississippi.
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 February 13, 1978 with Mr. M.W. Hamilton in Petal, Mississippi. Hamilton was born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi in 1909 and lived in the area until his death in 1990. He worked as a mechanic, electrician and...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on October 13, 1993 with Mr. Kenneth O. Williams at the new state capitol building in Jackson, Mississippi. Williams was born on January 18, 1924 in Clarksdale, Mississippi. He received a BA in political science...
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...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on February 22, 2007 with Carol Mars, a retired librarian, who discusses Hurricane Katrina's effects on her life as well as the Pascagoula Library and surrounding area.
Oral history.; Interview conducted on December 11, 1974 with Mrs. Lillie Jones at her home in Philadelphia, Mississippi. Jones was born in 1892 in Lauderdale County, Mississippi and soon after her family moved to Neshoba County. She attended a...
An interview conducted on 06-08-1999 with Umoja Kwanguvu (born1925). Born William Jones, Umoja Kwanguvu actively protested and defied segregation while in the military, conducted protest activities against the prevailing Jim Crow attitudes and laws...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on November 4, 1993 with Joseph E. Wroten (born 1925). Mr. Wroten became famous as one of only two Mississippi House Representatives who voted in favor of allowing blacks to enroll at the University of Mississippi.
Oral history.; Interview conducted on October 25, 1993 with Mrs. Raylawni Branch. Branch was born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, in 1941. After graduating from high school, she married and had three children. In 1965, Branch attended USM for one...
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 Kate Greenaway Papers. Autograph letter signed. 3 pp. on 1 folded leaf. (15 x 10 cm.) To Lily [Evans] from Kate Greenaway at Hampstead dated 21 January circa 1891-1893.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. Uncle Sam walks past a sign post on which are two signs pointing in opposite directions. The sign that points in the direction Uncle Sam is walking reads "Nuclear non-proliferation...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A bird nest box mounted on top of a wooden post has the facade of the White House. A sign attached to the post reads, "Be kind to your ruffled-feathered friend." The cartoon...
cartoon by John Stampone; A naked man runs down a neighborhood street toward a post box. The man holds two envelopes in his hand, extended toward the post box. One envelope is addressed "Internal Revenue Service," and the other one is addressed...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Richard Nixon is nervous and uncertain as he rides in the back seat of a car driven by Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger, who is holding a sign that reads, "Immediage...
