Dr. James P. Smith Collection
Scope and Contents
The collection contains testimonies, articles, press releases, and documents on various aspects of Mississippi during the Hurricane Katrina disaster and the years of struggle for recovery on the Mississippi gulf coast. These materials were compiled by University of Southern Mississippi History Professor, James "Pat" Smith, in creating his book Hurricane Katrina: the Mississippi Story.
Dates
- 2004-2012
Creator
Conditions Governing Access
Noncirculating; available for research.
Conditions Governing Use
This collection may be protected from unauthorized copying by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code).
Biographical / Historical
James Patterson Smith is a Professor Emeritus of history at The University of Southern Mississippi, where he coordinated the history program at Gulf Park. He is the author of Hurricane Katrina – The Mississippi Story. This book is an account of Hurricane Katrina’s impact on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
Dr. Smith's publications include Civic Virtue: Cato's Letters, the Founding Fathers, and the New Mississippi (1992) and articles in The Journal of Canadian Studies and the Journal of Negro History. With Dr. Gilbert Mason, he published Beaches, Blood, and Ballotts: A Black Doctor's Civil Rights Struggle (2000), the first monograph to make extensive use of the Mississippi Sovereignty Commission records. He received the Carter G. Woodson Prize for an article about race and political reform in the British West Indies. He served on the Board of Directors for the Mississippi Humanities Council and coordinated the history program at Gulf Park.
Extent
4.5 Cubic Feet
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
The materials in the collection were organized by subject, grouping items by organization when possible: testimonies, DVDs, etc.
Provenance
Given By: James P. Smith on November 10, 2014.
- Barbour, Haley, 63rd Governor of Mississippi, 1947-
- Bay Saint Louis (Miss.). Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Beauvoir (Biloxi, Miss.). Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Biloxi (Miss.). Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Crime -- Mississippi. Subject Source: Local sources
- D'Iberville (Miss.). Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- DVDs. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- DeLisle (Harrison County, Miss.). Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Faith. Subject Source: Local sources
- Gautier (Miss.). Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Gulf Coast (Miss.). Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Gulfport (Miss.). Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Hancock County (Miss.). Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Harrison County (Miss.). Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Hattiesburg (Miss.). Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Hurricane Katrina, 2005. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Hurricanes. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Jackson County (Miss.). Subject Source: Local sources
- Long Beach (Miss.). Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- New Orleans (La.). Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Ocean Springs (Miss.). Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Pascagoula (Miss.). Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Pass Christian (Miss.). Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Personal narratives. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Politicians -- Mississippi. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Press releases. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Records (Documents). Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Sun herald (Biloxi, Miss.)
- Taylor, Gary Eugene "Gene", Member of the U.S. House of Representatives and Mississippi State Senator, 1953-
- United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency. FEMA
- University of Southern Mississippi -- Faculty. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- University of Southern Mississippi -- Gulf Park. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- University of Southern Mississippi. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- WLOX-TV (Television station : Biloxi, Miss.)
- Waveland (Miss.). Subject Source: Local sources
- Witnesses. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Title
- Dr. James P. Smith Collection
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Collection processed and finding aid written by Brandon Ball
- Date
- March 2020
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Historical Manuscripts and Photographs Repository
118 College Drive - 5148
Hattiesburg MS 39406-0001
601.266.4345
