Oral history.; Interview conducted on June 24, 1998 with J.C. Fairley, Mamie Phillips, and Charles Phillips, who were all active in the NAACP during the civil rights movement of the 1950s and the 1960s.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on August 30, 1978 with Thomas Jefferson Tubb (born 1899). Mr. Tubb served as chairman of the Clay County Executive Committee for 47 years from 1928 to 1975 and during the Dixiecrat movement from 1950 to 1956....
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...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Gene Basset. Barry Goldwater, Nelson Rockefeller, and Richard Nixon stand behind the doors of a saloon, labeled, "For men only." Above the doorway is the sign, "Presidential primaries."...
A collection of ten 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...
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs. A one-story brick building on the Mississippi Woman's College campus identified as the Mary Ross Memorial Hospital, which was completed in 1923.
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs; Photograph of Tatum Court, the administration building of Mississippi Woman's College, was built in 1914; 8 x 10
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs; Photograph of the Mississippi Woman’s College Spring Festival. Women in costume relax around a lake, circa 1930s.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of aerial view of the campus of Mississippi Woman's College, now William Carey University, taken by Robert Waller, circa 1950s.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of aerial view of the campus of Mississippi Woman's College, now William Carey University, taken by Robert Waller, circa 1950s.
Oral history.; Interview conducted on July 19, 1978 with Mr. W.S. Griffin at his home in Jackson, Mississippi. Griffin was born on October 15, 1913 near Mantee, Mississippi, in Webster County. In 1936, he accepted a position as a teacher and coach...
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.; Interview conducted on May 3, 1982 with Reverend James Randolph, former pastor of St. Paul's Methodist Church, at the parsonage in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Randolph was born on April 4, 1949 in Rankin County, Mississippi, near...
cartoon by Ed Valtman; A man and a woman are featured in the aisle of a grocery store. The shelves are stacked high, and the woman is trying to reach for something on a shelf that is out of her reach. The upper rows of the towering shelf,...
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 August 25, 1971 with Erskine Caldwell (1903-1987). Mr. Caldwell was a prominent American author whose works include Tobacco Road, (1932) and God's Little Acre (1933).
Oral history.; Eva Gates was born on October 4, 1948. Marriage and pregnancy at fifteen caused her to temporarily leave school although her return proved difficult because of her husband's protests and the prevailing school policies concerning...
