A collection of six 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.; 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.; Mrs. Varnell Homan was born on February 5, 1925, in Mooreville, Mississippi. In 1936, the year of Tupelo's worst tornado, she moved to Shannon, Mississippi. In 1942 she married Elkin P. Homan, and they were farmers. To make a...
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
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man labeled "Juvenile crime" looks at watches in the glass case at a shop (pawn shop?). The merchant stands on the other side of the glass case. Behind the merchant on the...
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.; Interview conducted on July 28, 1981 with Reverend Clinton Collier at the Methodist Church in Morton, Mississippi. Collier was born on August 24, 1910 [i.e. 1909] in rural Neshoba County. After completing the eighth grade, which...
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 October 28, 1993 with Judge Michael L. Carr (born 1920). He moved to Mississippi when he received an appointment to serve as law clerk to Edwin R. Holmes, U.S. circuit judge for the Fifth Circuit Court of...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 26, 1977 with William Joel Blass (born 1917). As a lawyer in 1952, he successfully prosecuted the Boyce Holleman case by proving that voter fraud had kept Holleman from winning. Beginning in 1953, he...
Oral history.; A native of Mississippi, Mrs. Bates received degrees from Tougaloo College and West Virginia University, with further study at the University of Colorado and the University of Denver. She has been a resident of Denver, Colorado, for...
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs; Photograph of an advertisement for the sale of J. J. Newman Lumber Company land at $10 per acre in 1912. The ad was produced by E. A. Cummings & Company of Chicago.
Photograph of Mississippi license plate 10S01 and an article from the Alumni Association publication about the new plates, sale of which generate funds for scholarships in addition to the standard tax fees. The article photo shows Delbert Dearman,...
Photograph of Lena de Grummond and Esphyr Slobodkina (mural artist) in front of the mural on the second floor of Cook Library. This photograph was featured in the Student Printz on May 5, 1970; 8 x 10
cartoon by Ken Alexander; A depressed-looking man sits behind a booth in the desert. A placard above the booth is labeled "Poor Nations Mineral Mart And Garage Sale." He sells bauxite, copper, and tin. A second man wearing Arab attire sits behind...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Riedell. A chicken with a head drawn to resemble Charles de Gaulle stands over a nest labeled "$220 million gold sale to U.S. in June." In the nest is a large egg labeled "24 kt." The...
