Oral history.; An interview with Michael Hewes conducted on December 29, 2006. Hewes discusses his preparations before, and his experience during, and cleanup and recovery efforts after Hurricane Katrina in Gulfport, 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.; Two interviews conducted on March 29 and April 13, 1977 with Mr. Amzie Moore at his home in Cleveland, Mississippi. Moore was born on September 23, 1911 in rural Mississippi, on the county line of Carroll and Grenada Counties. In...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on June 18, 1992 and March 9, 1993 with Mr. C.B. "Buddie" Newman at his home in Valley Park, Mississippi. Newman was born on May 8, 1921 in Valley Park, Mississippi. In 1942, he left his job with the Southern...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on September 18, 1980 with Phillip West (born 1946). He has served as president of the NAACP of Adams County and as second vice-president for the state.
Oral history.; Percy Brooks was born on November 15, 1911 to a family of farmers. His grandfather had been freed from slavery during the Civil War, and afterwards sharecropped and rented land to save money to buy eighty acres in 1909. Mr. Brooks...
Oral history.; The Honorable Frank D. Barber was born on April 2, 1929, in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Barber attended the University of Mississippi for a year before volunteering for the U.S. Army which involved National Guard work in the U.S. and...
From the McLoughlin Brothers Papers. Press Dummy with pencil end papers, text and illustrations of Pinkie the Piggie Who Never Hurried by Lydia Scott, illustrated by Pru Herric (Springfield: McLoughlin Bros., 1945) Westfield classics #74 from the...
From the McLoughlin Brothers Papers. Press dummy of The Six Happy Goats illustrated by Robert A. Graef (Springfield: McLoughlin Bros., 1943) Little color classics #823, from the books series of the McLoughlin Brother Papers. The McLoughlin Brothers...
From the McLoughlin Brothers Papers. Press dummy with text and illustrations pasted-in, some pencil sketches of The Tin Soldier by Hans Christian Andersen, illustrated by Sari (Springfield: McLoughlin Bros., 1945) Westfield classics #72, from the...
From the McLoughlin Brothers Papers. Press dummy with pasted-in text of The Tin Soldier by Hans Christian Andersen, illustrated by Sari (Springfield: McLoughlin Bros., 1945) Westfield classics #72, from the books series of the McLoughlin Brother...
From the McLoughlin Brothers Papers. Press dummy with pencil illustrations and text pasted-in of The Traveling Musicians from the Brothers Grimm, illustrated by Ianray (Springfield: McLoughlin Bros., 1945) Westfield classics #69, from the books...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on January 31, 1977 with Jimmy Carter Fairley (born 1921). A native of Greene County, Mississippi, Mr. Fairley was active in the civil rights movement at the local, state, and national levels.
Oral history.; Interview conducted on September 10, 1978 with Ms. Sarah Johnson at her home in Greenville, Mississippi. Johnson was born on March 10, 1938 in Charleston, South Carolina. She is an African American woman who has been active on...
Oral history.; Born on January 19, 1958, in Greenwood, Mississippi, Jon Levingston grew up in a Jewish family in Cleveland, Mississippi. Mr. Levingston attended a boarding school in Rome, Georgia and then the University of Georgia and the Virginia...
Oral history.; Discusses her father, Erle Johnston. Describes his relations with Ross Barnett and his work with the State Sovereignty Commission, which she denies was ever a spy organization.
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on May 21, 1974 and January 26, 1976 with the Honorable Mildred Wells Norris. Norris was born in Ovett, Mississippi. She studied for one year at Mississippi State College for Women. Norris started working...
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. By Clement C. Moore. Published in Boston by The Atlantic Monthly Press, in 1921. Known under the title: The night before Christmas. "Designed by Bruce Rogers and printed by William Edwin Rudge,...
From the McLoughlin Brothers Papers. Working Dummy book for The Lord is My Shepherd illustrated by Catherine Merrit and Marguerite Gayer (Springfield: McLoughlin Bros., 1943) Cathedral classics #55 from the books series of the McLoughlin Brother...
From the McLoughlin Brothers Papers. Proof in book form of Pinkie the Piggie Who Never Hurried by Lydia Scott, illustrated by Pru Herric (Springfield: McLoughlin Bros., 1945) Westfield classics #74 from the books series of the McLoughlin Brother...
