Oral history.; Interview conducted on July 30, 1980 with Mr. Erle Johnston at his home in Forest, Mississippi. Johnston was born on October 10, 1917 in Garyville, Louisiana. In 1941, he moved Forest, Mississippi and bought the fledgling newspaper,...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on October 24, 1978 with Mr. Nathaniel H. Lewis at his home in McComb, Mississippi. Lewis was born in McComb, Mississippi. In 1928, Lewis and his father organized the McComb Independent Lodge NO. 846 of the...
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of a shipment of shoes being unloaded from an airplane for Eisman's store.
Oral history.; An interview with Robert Hirsch conducted on June 8, 2007. Hirsch describes his experiences as Superintendent of Ocean Springs School District during Hurricane Katrina.
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...
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.; 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.; Four interviews conducted on October 1, 2, and 23 of 1975, and July 1, 1976 with Mr. Hugh Clegg at his home in Anguilla, Mississippi. Clegg was born on July 17, 1898 in Mathiston, Mississippi. Clegg graduated from Millsaps...
Oral history.; Mr. Augustus (Gus) Ashby Sr. was born in 1924, in Washington, D.C. and moved to Tupelo where he became active in the local church. After high school, he attended college in Holly Springs and Okolona, Mississippi. He was a member of...
Oral history.; Mr. Terry Allen Broadus was born on October 11, 1938. Mr. Broadus enrolled at Perkinston Agricultural High School in 1952 and later received a baseball scholarship to attend Perkinston Junior College. In the late 1960s, Mr. Broadus...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Typewritten letter on official letterhead from Linda [Gordon] to Joseph and Nancy Ellin, dated July 16, 1964. Discusses the shipment of textbooks sent for use by the freedom schools in...
From Mrs. W's 1901 Diary. Mrs. W.'s diary paints a vivid portrait of the daily life of a middle class homemaker in 1901, and constitutes a daily account of the author's activities from April 1 - August 7, 1901.Very little biographical or historical...
Transcribed copy of a report by the General Legislative Committee of Mississippi based on findings from an investigation of the occupation of the University of Mississippi in 1962 by the United States Department of Justice. Action was taken in...
Customs form for the Confederate States of America recording the shipment of whiskey via the Mississippi Central Railroad to J. P. Atkinson at Holly Springs, Mississippi, dated 13 May 1861.
Letter from James Whitfield in New York to W. H. (Henry) Buchannon in Columbus, Mississippi, dated 19 October 1838, concerning Whitfield's buying trip to New York and Philadelphia. Mentioned are prices, vendors, shipment procedures, debt...
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...
From the Thigpen (S.G.) Papers. Photograph of a train delivering tung oil paint. Two men inside a train car behind rows of paint hold a sign reading, “Thermolyzed Tung Oil Paint, made by the O’brien Varnish Co, South Bend, Ind. Shipped to...
