Women.

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Newsletter titled Ingalls News published by Ingalls Shipbuilding Corporation located in Pascagoula, Mississippi. Major story of issue is about a woman winning National Welding Championship.

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Personal papers, writings, photographs, published materials relating to Freedom Summer and continuing civil rights pursuits throughout her lifetime.

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This collection consists of information on Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) of World War II.

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Correspondence, copied newspaper clippings, and other materials pertaining to activates of the Business and Professional Women’s Club.

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This collection contains a postcard and photographs of Catherine Crowell and her friends during their service in the Army Nurse Corps and the Women’s Army Corps in the during World War II. Also photographed in this collection are patients who she took care of during her service, and buildings within Camp Shelby.

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Yearbooks and membership books for several Hattiesburg Area social and service clubs including Study Club, John Rolfe Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), Nautilus Blub, Iris Club, and Woman’s Society of Christian Service.

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This collection consists of a variety of materials reflecting the history of the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, from its charter in 1924, to its merger with the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, in 1984.

This collection should be of interest to researchers of women's and girls' organizations, or women's history, and may also be of interest to researchers of the history of Hattiesburg.

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Case files, correspondence, reports, other relating to her work with the Emergency Relief Administration, Works Progress Administration in Mississippi.

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Items related to Ann Mulloy Ashmore and her experiences as chair of the Oklahoma IWY Coordination Committee. Marjorie Spruill Wheeler at The University of Southern Mississippi conducted her oral history for inclusion of her book: Divided We Stand: The Battle over Women’s Rights and Family Values that Polarized American Politics.

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Club Yearbooks.

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This collection documents the activities and life of Sara Craig McCorkle. It includes photographs, ephemera, audio tapes, and DVDs.

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Materials relating to the Civil Rights activities of S.N.C.C. field secretary who served as Project Manager of the COFO-Hattiesburg Project office during Freedom Summer.

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Proposed bylaws and correspondence about NABW.

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Records that document activities of the Hattiesburg, Mississippi Chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW). Included are office files, by-laws and amendments, computer print-outs of registered votersin Hattiesburg and Forrest County, newspaper clippings, audio and video cassette recordings pertaining to the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), and copies of The National NOW Times (the official journal of NOW).

Scope and Contents The heart of the Rose Budd Stevens Papers is copies of her newspaper articles which she began writing in 1947 and continued to write until 1994. The articles colorfully depict everyday life in rural Mississippi and provide a rich source of information about southern culture and heritage, language, expressions, anecdotes, and the role of women in southern society. Recurring topics in the articles are arts and crafts, cooking, family life, farm life, canning, home remedies, poetry and...

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This collection contains materials about Whitworth College.

Scope and Contents This chronologically arranged collection consists of year books of the Woman's Club of Hattiesburg dating from 1920-1967. These yearbooks list officers, committees, and members. Also provided in the yearbooks are outlines of the history, constitution and by-laws of the club. Included as well in these documents is information about forthcomming programs, social events, and business meetings.The year books were prepared by the Executive Committee, for the ensuing club year, and...