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 interview conducted with Mrs. Mose Allison. Mrs. Allison taught school from 1926-1957 at Tippo School. She is the mother of renowned jazz pianist Mose Allison. Throughout the interview, Mrs. Allison recounts life in Tippo,...
Transcription of an interview conducted with Frank D. Barber. Barber became involved in politics when he was just ten years old going door-to-door hanging flyers for Paul B. Johnson Sr. This interest continued throughout his adult life alongside...
Transcription of an oral history interview conducted with Iva Brown of Charleston, Mississippi. Mrs. Brown discusses her experience first growing up as a student and finally as a school teacher in Charleston beginning in 1926.
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 Charles M. George. George discusses in particular his time spent working for the West Tallahatchie School District where he eventually became the first African American Superintendent.
Transcription of an oral history interview conducted with Gladys Goodman of Cleveland, Mississippi. Mrs. Goodman discusses various aspects of her life including family, farming and slavery.
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 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...
Transcription of an oral history interview conducted in Cleveland, Mississippi with Tommy Naron. Naron talks of his life in Cleveland and his many years of public service in the area.
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 with the Honorable John Pearson of Rosedale, Mississippi. Judge Pearson discusses his life and the many years of public service he performed.
Transcription of an oral history interview conducted with Rubin and Frances Smith of Cleveland, Mississippi. Mr. and Mrs. Smith discuss their involvement in the various Civil Rights activities in their area as well as the beginning of the...
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...
Fourteen page supplement to the Stone Family History. Information provided includes family history, marriage licenses, obituaries, death certificates, and a funeral notice. Includes index and photographs of Eliza Jane Cohea and Jennie Noonan. Parts...
From the Bates (Gladys Noel) Papers. Typewritten letter from A.L. Johnson to James A. Burns on the letterhead of Mississippi Association of Teachers in Colored Schools (MTACS), dated February 23, 1948. Johnson asks that Burns prepare a power of...
From the Birdsong PW Collection. Image is of five men baking bread. One man is removing bread from an oven with a long pole. All five men are wearing white uniforms, on most articles of clothing the letters ""PW"" are visible. Four men wear...
From the Birdsong PW Collection. Image is of six men working in a mechanical(?) shop on motors(?). Half of the men sit and half stand. Two of the men are wearing uniforms that display the letters ""PW."" A seventh man stands outside of the window...
