Transcription of an oral history interview conducted with Sylvester Matthews regarding the history of the Rosedale Negro Church. Matthews, born in 1887, discusses his family's history and various aspects of the history of the Rosedale area, in...
Oral history with Irene Haper. Interview was conducted by G.B. Crawford on 26 October 1983, at Horn Lake, Mississippi. Includes a transcript and audio.
Transcription of an oral history interview conducted with Fletcher Abrams of Carry, Mississippi. Abrams discusses agriculture and sharecropping plus the role of mechanized farm equipment.
Transcription of an oral history interview conducted with Albert Day. Day grew up in Gunnison, Mississippi. During his childhood, his father was a general manager of the Delta Cooperative Farm Project in Hillsdale, Mississippi. Day discusses the...
Transcription of an oral history interview conducted with three men, Delaware, Vonell and Toliver. These gentlemen discuss several issues, among them slavery and the Works Progress Administration (WPA).
Transcription of an oral history interview conducted with James Goodman of Cleveland, Mississippi. Goodman talks about farming and slavery in and around Cleveland, Mississippi.
Transcription of an oral history interview conducted with Mrs. Norma C. O'Bannon. O'Bannon was a teacher in Mississippi for the Washington County School district beginning in 1921. She discusses life then and now in the area.
Transcription of an oral history interview conducted in two parts with Jessie Bernice Franklin Williams of Greenville, Mississippi. Williams speaks of her experiences as a young African American woman growing up during the 40s and 50s in...
From the General Civil Rights Collection. This handbill gives information on the inadequacy of public welfare benefits in Mississippi. The handbill is illustrated with a photo of a can of Karo syrup, implying that this is all that the state's...
From the Rankin (Annie) Papers. Three-page handwritten letter signed Mr. and Mrs. Judge Rankin to Mr. and Mrs. F.M. Stewart dated July 29, 1967. Rankin writes about her activities in support of election campaigns in her area, arrangements to...
From the Adam Daniel Beittel Papers. Typewritten letter from A.D. Beittel to Mrs. Robert R. Grinstead of Concord, California, dated August 2, 1961. Beittel writes about a meeting of 28 ministers and civil rights leaders, including Martin Luther...
