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.; Mr. David M. "Boo" Ferriss was born December 5, 1921, in Shaw, Mississippi. Mr. Ferriss graduated from Mississippi State University and served in the Army Air Corps in World War II. Spending forty-four years as a player and coach in...
Oral history.; Mr. Harry A. Martin was born in Clarke County, Mississippi, on July 20, 1925. Mr. Martin became active in Four-H Club and in Future Farmers of America during his elementary and high school years. After graduation, Mr. Martin got a...
Photograph of a crowd protesting President Shelby Thames' termination of tenured professors Gary Stringer and Frank Glamser. People in the crowd hold signs calling for reinstatement of the professors, appointment of Glamser as university president,...
Oral history.; Charles C. Jacobs Jr. was born in Greenville, Mississippi, on January 13, 1921. Mr. Jacobs attended the University of Mississippi and returned to its law school after serving as a Marine during World War II. During his career, he was...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on July 8 and 23, 1980 with the Reverend Clay F. Lee at his study in Jackson, Mississippi. Lee was born on March 3, 1930 in Laurel, Mississippi. After graduating with his undergraduate degree from Millsaps...
Oral history.; Four interviews conducted on June 11, September 26, October 10, and November 21, 1985 with Ms. Ruby Magee in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Magee was born on August 12, 1940 in Tylertown, Mississippi. In 1962, she received a BA in...
Oral history.; Mr. George A. Stevens was born in 1910 in Forrest County, Mississippi. He attended Hattiesburg public schools but graduated from high school in Anthony, New Mexico. Mr. Stevens returned to attend The University of Southern...
Oral history.; Borganelli discusses her teaching career and family, public education in Mississippi, the Mississippi Humanities Council, and race relations in Mississippi.
Oral history.; Father Peter Oliver Quinn was born on April 11, 1937, in Ireland. He was ordained when he was twenty-five years old in Ireland, and he came to Mississippi in September, 1962. Father Quinn's first assignment was at Sacred Heart...
Transcribed copy of a paper about racism in Mississippi during the 1960s. Follows the tribulations of college students who volunteered to register African Americans to vote during Freedom Summer. With regard to racism and white supremacy,...
Rough draft of an article by Terri Shaw submitted to The Antiochian, the alumni publication of Antioch College. It recounts Shaw's experiences as a Freedom Summer volunteer in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, in 1964. Shaw discusses the training session...
Photograph of Dr. Frances Glamser and Dr. Gary Stringer, during the hearing for the two professors, who were dismissed by President Shelby Thames. Featured in the Talon, vol. 58, no. 4 (Spring 2004) on page 36.
Photograph of a crowd protesting President Shelby Thames' termination of tenured professors Gary Stringer and Frank Glamser. Students hold signs calling for Thames' impeachment, appointment of Glamser as university president, and other sentiments.
Photograph of a crowd protesting President Shelby Thames' termination of tenured professors Gary Stringer and Frank Glamser. People in the crowd hold signs of protest.
Photograph of R.B. Hill, retired theatre professor, at a protest against the firing of professors Frank Glamser and Gary Stringer by President Shelby Thames. Hill holds a small sign athat reads, "Retirees against Thames" and wears a small sign on...
Photograph of a protest against the firing of professors Frank Glamser and Gary Stringer by President Shelby Thames. Featured in the Student Printz, vol. 88, issue 44 (8 April 2004) on page 1.
cartoon by Reg Manning; A university student labeled "Vast majority of students" complains to a faculty member,"You'd never know I was in the university, he gets all the attention!" The university student is referring to a miniature hippie labeled...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on November 12, 1981 and February 6, 1982 with Judge J. P. Coleman. Coleman was born on December 9, 1914 in Fentress, Mississippi. After attending the University of Mississippi, he was invited to work in...
