Oral history.; An interview conducted on July 25, 2006 with Naseer and Zaheer Ahmad. Zaheer had been a taxi operator in New Orleans for twenty-five years when Katrina forced his family to Virginia. Zaheer recalls his life in New Orleans and...
Oral history.; An interview with A.J. Holloway conducted on January 18, 2007. Mayor of Biloxi, Holloway describes the impact of Hurricane Katrina on the city, as well as volunteer efforts in recovery.
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. Boyce Holleman was born on February 26, 1924, in Wiggins, Mississippi. Mr. Holleman enrolled at the Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College in the fall of 1940, but transferred to the University of Mississippi to study law. In...
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. 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.; Dr. Antone Walter Tannehill, Jr., was born May 22, 1929, in New Orleans, Louisiana, but grew up in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. He attended Vanderbilt University and Duke University Medical School. He served an internship at the...
Oral history.; Born on March 28, 1914, Dr. Eleanor Byrd Walters was born in Gunnison, Mississippi. In 1934, she received her B.S. in education from Delta State Teachers College and went on to earn several advanced degrees. From 1934 through 1943...
Oral history.; Mr. Ray William (Buck) Wells was born August 21, 1916, on a dairy farm three-fourths of a mile southwest of Mississippi Normal College (now The University of Southern Mississippi). Sometime around 1920 or 1921 he moved into...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on October 22, 1996 with Mrs. Josephine Clemons Bell (born 1909). Her teaching career in elementary education in the public school of Natchez-Adams County spans twenty-nine and a half years. After retiring in...
Photograph of football coach Thad "Pie" Vann, who was inducted into the USM Sports Hall of Fame. See related article in Student Printz on April 19, 1977.
Photograph of an unidentified man pushing a wheelbarrow in the aisle of the stable at the University of Southern Mississippi Equestrian Center. Featured in the 1992 Southerner yearbook on page 67.
Photograph of USM's National Flag Football Championship Team, Salt and Pepper. The team is gathered around a USF&G Sugar Bowl sign. Photograph from the 1989 Southerner yearbook on page 171.
Photograph of head football coach Bobby Collins discussing a call with an umpire. Both men are pointing onto the field, and the umpire holds a rulebook in one hand.
Photograph of Southern Mississippi cheerleaders with the Liberty Bell, a symbol of the rivalry with Tulane University (Battle for the Bell). Featured in the USM Alumni News, vol. 53, no. 1 (Summer 1999) on page 18.
Photograph of Sammy Winder with his former Southern Miss coach, Bobby Collins, at Winder's induction into the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame. Featured in the USM Alumni News, vol. 51, no. 4 (Spring 1998) on page 3.
Photograph of three men and two women reading copies of a 1953 Hattiesburg American newspaper with the headline "Southern mops up Tide" following a victory over the University of Alabama football team in 1953. Photograph also found on page 93 of...
