Oral history.; Mr. King T. Evans was born on March 19, 1913 near Uniontown, Alabama, in Perry County. In 1925, Mr. Evans moved to Mississippi with his parents. His father was a mechanic and farmer. For a brief period, Mr. Evans attended the...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on June 24, 1998 with J.C. Fairley, Mamie Phillips, and Charles Phillips, who were all active in the NAACP during the civil rights movement of the 1950s and the 1960s.
Oral history.; Eva Gates was born on October 4, 1948. Marriage and pregnancy at fifteen caused her to temporarily leave school although her return proved difficult because of her husband's protests and the prevailing school policies concerning...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on August 26, 1975 with Mr. Charles Johnson at his home in Jackson, Mississippi. Johnson was born in 1911 in Amory, Mississippi. After receiving a degree in Science from Mississippi State University, he began...
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.; Interview conducted on September 17, 1980 with the Honorable Tony Byrne, former mayor of Natchez, Mississippi at his office in the Natchez City Hall. Byrne was born on May 18, 1936 in Natchez, Mississippi. He attended Mississippi...
Oral history.; Mr. Jeremiah O'Keefe was born in Ocean Springs, Mississippi, on July 12, 1923. Mr. O'Keefe attended Sacred Heart Academy for high school. He entered the U.S. Navy and received his wings in the U.S. Marine Corps in May, 1943. Having...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on June 3, 1993 with Mr. George Saxon, formerly of the Mississippi Highway Safety Patrol as an investigator, at his home in Gulfport, Mississippi. Saxon was born on March 30, 1927 in Waynesboro, Mississippi. ...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on November 14, 1995 with Eldridge W. Steptoe Jr. (born 1936). Mr. Steptoe witnessed his father's involvement in the McComb movement of the early 1950s and in the establishing of a local chapter of the NAACP in...
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...
Transcribed copy of a summary of the development of Mississippi Freedom Schools, lists of the number of schools and the number of students that attended each. Also includes an account of violent attacks against African Americans in Mississippi...
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs; Photograph of former baseball star, Dizzy Dean and Boyce Holleman at the Choctaw Restaurant in Hattiesburg, 1964. The Choctaw was Dean's favorite eatery. Reproduced in McCarty, page 177. Retouched:...
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs; Photograph of Exterior view of the Choctaw Restaurant, whose specialty was barbecued ribs. Reproduced in McCarty, page 177. Retouched: orange lines removed; 7 x 5
Running summary of various incidents that occurred during the Mississippi Freedom Project, Summer 1964. Organized chronologically, each entry gives the city and the incident. Includes instances of harassment, hostility, and violence against civil...
Photograph University President Horace Fleming and Gene Carlisle, President of Carlisle Corp., as they flip burgers at the announcement of Carlisle's gift of the Wendy's Restaurant on Westover Drive in Hattiesburg to the USM Foundation. Featured...
Photograph of Melanie Hamilton, junior dietics major, and Christine Helmstetter, junior hotel restaurant management major, making fish en papillote. (Caption) Similar photo found in the 1997 Southerner yearbook on page 46.
Photograph of an advertisement for Wimpy's, a student hangout. The ad promotes Wimpy's as a place to gather during away football games. It also features plate lunches and sportswear.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Merle Cunnington. A placard on the wall of a restaurant reads, "The country needs not submergence in internationalism but sustainment in triumphant nationality!" and the quotation is attributed...
