Oral history.; An interview conducted on June 21-22, 2007 with Carter Bise, Chancery Court Judge on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Judge Bise describes his experience in Gulfport during and after Hurricane Katrina.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on June 18, 2007 with Margaret Alfonso, the Senior Chancery Court Judge for Hancock, Harrison, and Stone counties. She discusses her experience with Hurricane Katrina on the Gulf Coast.
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...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on September 23, 2009 with Robert Weaver, the Sand Beach Director and Roads Manager for Harrison County, who describes the 2005 hurricane season's destruction across the American South.
Oral history.; Interview conducted on May 11, 1982 with Professor N.R. Burger at his residence in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Burger was born on April 7, 1909 in Brookhaven, Mississippi. In 1932, he completed his undergraduate degree from Alcorn...
Oral history.; Viola Brown Sanders was born in Sidon, Mississippi, on February 21, 1921. After Miss Sanders finished her education, she taught school for two years in Glen Allan, Mississippi. In 1943, Miss Sanders joined the United States Navy...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 5, 1998 with Judge Fred L. Banks, Jr. (born 1942). In the late 1960s, Judge Banks began his law career by serving for the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund. He was elected three times to the House of...
Oral history.; Three interviews conducted on April 28, 30 and May 7, 1981 with Mr. Claude Ramsay at his office in Jackson, Mississippi. Ramsay was born in 1916 in Ocean Springs, Mississippi. He served briefly in the Civilian Conservation Corps...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Draft of an article with editorial notes. The content relates to education, standard English, and social and political ramifications.
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Transcription of a classroom discussion between Stokely Carmichael and several students; the topic of discussion is "proper English," who defines it, and what the implications are for black...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; This is an early draft of one of Michael Miller's letters to the editor of the San Francisco Chronicle, which explains the national press's misinterpretation of the phrase "Black power" and...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; In an article for The Southern Patriot, Anne Braden notes the confusion of the community and the media over the meaning of the phrase "black power." She clarifies the meaning and usage of the...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; Michael Miller's letter to the editor of the San Francisco Chronicle explains the national press's misinterpretation of the phrase "Black power" and clarifies the phrase's meaning and usage...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Memo from Virginia Steele, co-coordinator of the Mississippi Summer Project libraries, to librarians, dated August 7, 1964. Steele requests the attendance of library workers at a meeting...
Transcribed copy of a document detailing the curriculum of Freedom Schools. Begins with a Table of Contents showing the major curriculum divisions: academic, citizenship, and recreational and artistic. Also gives details of activities and materials...
