From the Goodyear Yellow Pine Company Photographs. Photograph of the home of Lamont and Josephine Rowlands in Picayune, Mississippi. This exterior view features a picket fence in the foreground and the single story frame house in the background....
From the Ingram-Day Lumber Company Photographs Collection. Photograph of a little girl standing next to a huge yellow pine tree. The original caption reads, "A 24" x 24" x 70' Dense Heart Long Leaf Yellow Pine Stick in the Tree".
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...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on September 4, 2008 with John Hairston, Chief Executive Officer of Hancock Bank, Gulfport, Mississippi. Mr. Hairston discusses his family history, experience during Hurrican Katrina, and the economic impact...
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.; An interview conducted on December 29, 2006 with Letitia Willams, Director of the Hancock County Chamber of Commerce, who describes escaping to Jackson, Mississippi, before Hurricane Katrina's landfall and working with state and...
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.; Dr. Frank G. Gruich was born March 12, 1920 in Biloxi, Mississippi. Dr. Gruich earned a B.S. degree from the University of Mississippi and a degree in medicine from Tulane University, after which he worked at Charity Hospital in New...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on May 1, 1972 with Dr. Aaron Henry in his drugstore in Clarksdale, Mississippi. Henry was born on July 2, 1922 in Clarksdale, Mississippi. After serving in World War II, he went to Xavier College (now Xavier...
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.; Obie Clark was born October 31, 1932, near DeKalb, Mississippi. He earned a degree from Mississippi Industrial College and did additional college work at the University of Minnesota. For many years he taught school in Meridian,...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on February 21, 1980 with the Honorable George M. Yarbrough at his home. Yarbrough was born on August 15, 1916 at Red Banks, Mississippi. Yarbrough served in the U.S. Army during World War II, achieving the rank...
From the Ingram-Day Lumber Company Photographs Collection. Photograph of a particularly thick stand of yellow pine trees. A small child can barely be seen in the middle of the photograph. The original caption reads, "Dense Close Grained Long Leaf...
From the Goodyear Yellow Pine Company Photographs. Photograph of the lumber yard at the Rosa Lumber Company, later the Goodyear Pine Company of Picayune, Mississippi. Elevated wide angle view of lumber stacked to air dry. The photograph was taken...
From the Goodyear Yellow Pine Company Photographs. Photograph of the lumber yard at the Rosa Lumber Company, later the Goodyear Pine Company of Picayune, Mississippi. Elevated wide angle view of lumber stacked to air dry. The photograph was taken...
From the Goodyear Yellow Pine Company Photographs. Photograph of the lumber yard at the Rosa Lumber Company, later the Goodyear Pine Company of Picayune, Mississippi. Looking down an aisle between two rows of lumber stacked to air dry. The...
