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.; Three interviews conducted on December 12, 1975, January 19, 1976, and January 23, 1991 with Mr. C.J. Duckworth in his office in Jackson, Mississippi. Duckworth was born in Summerland, Mississippi, Smith County, on February 25,...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on October 21, 1999 with Dr. Sandra Adickes (born 1933). In 1963, Dr. Adickes taught African-Americans in freedom school efforts in Prince Edward County, Virginia. In 1964, she was recruited to teach in...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on May 11, 1977 with the Honorable Horace Buckley at his home in Jackson, Mississippi. Buckley was born on July 14, 1941 in Jackson, Mississippi. He obtained his undergraduate degree from Mississippi Valley...
From the Belcher (Granville W. and Mary Caroline) Letters. Granville W. Belcher, a farmer from Martinsville, Henry County, Virginia, served in company F, 57th Virginia Infantry during the Civil War. Belcher writes to his wife, Mary Caroline, on...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Local activists Gladys Young (left) and Gracie Hawthorne (right) sit on either side of Sandy Leigh, SNCC Field Secretary and Director of the COFO-Hattiesburg Project. They are on the steps...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Volunteers and local African-American activists participate in a meeting held in a large room with square pillars in an African-American church during Freedom Summer in Hattiesburg,...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; A meeting of COFO-Hattiesburg Project volunteers in an African-American church in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer, 1964. The meeting appears to be presided over by Sandy Leigh,...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Volunteer Johanna "Johnnie" Winchester, whose responsibilities included voter registration education, stands in the foreground. In the background Sandy Leigh, SNCC Field Secretary and...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Three African American civil rights activists meet outside Freedom Summer headquarters at 507 Mobile Street in Hattiesburg, Mississippi: (left to right) Reverend W.D. Ridgeway; SNCC Field...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. SNCC Field Secretary Sandy Leigh, Director of the COFO-Hattiesburg Project, meets with three men in the Green Door Cafe, located at 318 Mobile Street in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, near...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; A view of a meeting of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) from the rear of the St. Paul United Methodist Church in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer, 1964. Seated at...
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 the first members of the University of Southern Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame, installed February 20, 1965, at a banquet held in their honor at the University Commons. First row: Bracie Smith, George Westerfield, Reed Green, Dr....
From the University of Southern Mississippi Art Museum collection. Oil on canvas painting of the ocean and a sandy shore or sandbank, by an unknown artist.
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 with Sara Hamilton conducted on June 19, 2007. A volunteer project manager, Ms. Hamilton relocated from Chicago to Biloxi after Hurricane Katrina to continue working on Gulf Coast relief efforts.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on February 21, 2007 with Aimee Gautier-Dugger, who describes her experience waiting out the storm in Gautier, the city her ancestors founded, and the struggle to regroup after the storm.
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 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...
