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...
Interviews conducted on 04-21-1977 and 05-12-1977 with Unita Blackwell (born 1933). Ms. Blackwell was a field worker for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in 1964 and also served that year as a delegate of the Mississippi Freedom...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on November 12, 1981 and February 6, 1982 with Judge J. P. Coleman. Coleman was born on December 9, 1914 in Fentress, Mississippi. After attending the University of Mississippi, he was invited to work in...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 23, 1977 with Mr. Jimmy Swan. Swan was born in Cullman County, Alabama. He ran away from home when he was thirteen or fourteen and ended up in Wayne County, Mississippi. Swan sang in nightclubs and...
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Published in New York by Hurd and Houghton, and printed by Fahnestock in 1866, copyright 1864. Story told in verse by Richard Henry Stoddard ; illustrated by Alfred Fredericks ; engraved in colors...
From the Kate Greenaway Papers. Watercolor (28 x 19 cm.) "God called to you and you left us..." 4 stanza verse in KGs hand. (One of a set of three). Illustration not used in a publication.
From the Kate Greenaway Papers. Watercolor (23.5 x 19 cm.) "Dotty Dimple." 2 stanza verse in KG's hand. Signed KG. Illustration not used in a publication.
From the Kate Greenaway Papers. Watercolor (28 x 19 cm.) "Dead." Seven stanza verse in KGs hand. (One of a set of three). Illustration not used in a publication.
From the Kate Greenaway Papers. Pencil sketch (26.5 x 19.5 cm.) Has handwritten 3 stanza verse beginning "Oh she has gone a sailing..." Illustration not used in a publication.
From the Kate Greenaway Papers. Pencil sketch (35 x 28 cm.) Woman in hooded cape with verse in KG's hand: "Mother of God, oh Mother divine..." Illustration not used in a publication.
From the Kate Greenaway Papers. Pencil sketch (30 x 22.5 cm.) Has handwritten verse beginning "Yes she has white and she was still..." Illustration not used in a publication. Image is very faint.
From the Kate Greenaway Papers. Watercolor (28 x 19 cm.) "Little dead girl" Four stanza verse in KGs hand. (One of a set of three). Illustration not used in a publication.
From the Kate Greenaway Papers. Pencil sketch (28 x 19 cm.) Has handwritten verse beginning "Little One of Angel Race..." Entitled "To a Little Italian Girl." Illustration not used in a publication.
Photograph of freshmen students studying the Miss Southern Handbook. The caption reads, "Nail biting, humming, or cheating won't help. Freshmen girls must know the first verse of the Alma Mater for the Miss Southern Handbook test or else..." This...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on June 16, 2008 with Rod Dickson-Rishel, pastor of the Mississippi City United Methodist Church. Reverend Dickson-Rishel discusses his experiences during and after Hurricane Katrina.
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, 1909 in rural Neshoba County. After completing the eighth grade, which was as high as...
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 January 23, 1973 with Mr. William Dukes in his office in Gulfport, Mississippi. Dukes was born in the Sullivans' Hollow area near Raleigh, in Smith County, Mississippi on January 15, 1927. After his discharge...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on June 23 and July 8, 1993 with Paul B. Johnson III concerning his father, Paul B. Johnson Jr., and Mississippi politics. Johnson was born in 1948 in Mississippi. Both his father, Paul B. Johnson Jr., and his...
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...
