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Victoria Gray Adams Papers
Materials relating to her life-time of civil rights and human rights activities.
Jeff Balfour Collection
This collection contains photographs, slides, postcards, and memoirs of Mississippi.
Thomas E. Dearman Hattiesburg History Collection
This collection contains Hattiesburg/Petal history materials.
J.C. Fairley Civil Rights Collection
NAACP correspondence and materials documenting the contributions of this Hattiesburg Civil Rights leader.
Forrest County, Mississippi, Criminal Record Book
Forrest Motor Company Records
This collection contains a ledger.
Hattiesburg American Photograph Collection
Original photographs published in the Hattiesburg American.
Hattiesburg Chamber of Commerce Collection
Garland Sullivan was a member of the Board of Directors for both the Hattiesburg Area Chamber of Commerce and the Forrest County Development Foundation. The collection contains materials from the Hattiesburg Area Chamber of Commerce, Forrest County Development Foundation, Area Development Partnership, and other organizations from the Hattiesburg, Mississippi area.
Hattiesburg Historical Photographs
Photographs reproduced in Dr. Kenneth G. McCarty's book Hattiesburg: A Pictorial History.
Historic Sites of the Civil Rights Movement in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
Descriptions of buildings and sites in the Hattiesburg area during the Civil Rights era.
Tony Howe Railroad Map Collection
The bulk of the collection consists of 70 logging railroad maps drawn by Tony Howe. The maps portray railroad operations, timber holdings and other aspects of lumber companies that proliferated in South Mississippi during the latter years of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century.
Robert F. Kennedy Civil Rights Letter
An unsigned, one-page letter to U.S. Attorney General Robert F. “Bob” Kennedy from Hattiesburg, Mississippi. It appears that a local white woman wrote the letter. The letter describes the Freedom Riders and other civil rights activists negatively and criticizes the federal government for interfering in the Southern way of life.
J.J. Newman Lumber Company Records
This collection consists of thirteen volumes of journals and ledgers documenting the financial condition, accounts and related activities of the J. J. Newman Lumber Company which operated in Hattiesburg, Mississippi between approximately 1894 and 1943. It is not a complete set of the company's books, but some information is available for almost every year of the company's existence. The largest gaps for which no information is available are 1899-1902 and 1907-1908.
Moran Pope Collection
Memorabilia from Hattiesburg, the Demonstration School, Mississippi Normal College, State Teachers College, and The University of Mississippi.
Herbert Randall Freedom Summer Photographs
Photographs taken by creative artist at SNCC orientation session and in Hattiesburg, Mississippi during Freedom Summer, materials documenting USM's commemoration of the 35th anniversary of Freedom Summer on June 5-7, 1999 in conjunction with the opening of the exhibit "Faces of Freedom Summer: The Photographs of Herbert Randall", and materials related to the book Faces of Freedom Summer.
Rawles Family Historical Collection
The Rawles Family Historical Collection consists of 122 photographs depicting scenes from the early twentieth century in Mississippi. Among other things, images showcase the logging industry, family and church gatherings, and games. This collection is of particular interest to researchers studying the logging industry, life and culture in the early twentieth century, Mississippi history, the University of Southern Mississippi, farming, and railroads.
Southern Tourism Collection
Daisy Harris Wade Papers
Materials documenting the work of 1960s Forrest County N.A.A.C.P. leaders J.C. Fairley and Daisy Harris.
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- Lamar County (Miss.). 6
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- Hattiesburg (Miss.) -- History -- 20th century. 4
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- Memoir. 4
- Petal (Miss.). 4
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- The Hattiesburg American (Miss.) (1897-) 3
- Adams, Victoria Gray, 1926-2006 1
- Balfour, Jeff Edward, 1922-2006 1
- Brookhaven Lumber & Manufacturing Company (1901-1922) 1
- Dahmer, Vernon Ferdinand, 1908-1966 1
- Dearman, Thomas E., 1900-1990 1
- Demonstration School (Hattiesburg, Miss.) (1926-1963) 1
- Dixie Darlings (Dance team). (1954-) 1
- Evers, Medgar Wiley, 1925-1963 1
- Fairley, J. C. (Jimmy Carter), 1921- 1
- Forrest County (Miss.) 1
- Forrest County General Hospital (Hattiesburg, Miss.).. Forrest General Hospital. Forrest General Medical Center (1952-) 1
- Hattiesburg High School. 1
- Hattiesburg Sawmill Company (1922-1926) 1
- J.J. Newman Lumber Company (1894-1943) 1
- John Kamper Sawmill 1
- Kennard, Clyde, 1927-1963 1
- Kennedy, Robert F., United States Attorney General, Senator (Robert Francis "Bobby"), 1925-1968 1
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 1
- McCarty, Kenneth Graham, 1935-2019 1 + ∧ less