Alphabetical Index to the Collection

Subject headings and names of people interviewed are intermixed in alphabetical order.
Interviews are listed by the last name of the person interviewed.
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*ABBOTT, Samuel W. - World War II prisoner of war - v. 249 (1980)
atomic bombs; atrocities and punishments; Bataan; buddy system; Cabanatuan; Civilian Conservation Corps; Corregidor; health problems associated with incarceration; incarceration, long term effects of ; incarceration in Japan; legislative cooperation with veterans; Malinta Tunnel; Nagasaki; Palawan Island; Panay crisis; Pearl Harbor bombing, effects on Cavite; Veterans Administration; war crimes trials

*ABERDEEN, Mississippi
Peacock, Lucille - v. 548

*ABERNETHY, Thomas G. - U.S. representative from Mississippi - v. 23 (1973)
(Tapes are restricted from public use; manuscript available.) Congressional career; as mayor of Eupora; serving as Okolona district attorney; race against John Rankin
discussed in: Coleman, J.P. - v. 203; Cortright, George - v. 122; Griffin, Charles - v. 191; Kirkpatrick, Clifton v. 144; Stevens, Boswell - v. 9

*ABZUG, Bella
mentioned in: Griffin, Charles - v. 191

*ACKER, Freddie - Pearl River County resident - v. 418 (1992)
Crosby family; Picayune, Mississippi; recreation; religion; sawmill work; working with World War II prisoners of war (Also on deposit is a videotape of the interview.)

*ADAM, Bidwell - Gulf Coast resident and lieutenant governor - v. 34 (1971)
"The Big Four" and the Building Commission; Bilbo administrations; Bilbo and Huey Long; Bilbo, Theodore; Dantin, Maurice, campaign of ; lieutenant governor; perceptions of Mississippi politicians; Pass Christian alderman; Hancock County supervisor; State Democratic Executive Committee chairman
discussed in: Darby, Cooper - v. 158; Hubbell, William F. - v. 64; Quave, Russell - v. 189 Simmons, Hansford, L. - v. 77; Walker, E.M. - v. 92

*ADICKES, Sandra - Freedom Summer volunteer - v. 731 (1999)
family background; early teaching career; SNCC; Freedom Summer, recruiting for; Freedom Summer; Dahmer, Vernon; Freedom Summer, first school day of; Hattiesburg Public Library, integration of; Kress lunch counter; nonviolent tactics; Piel, Eleanor Jackson; Adickes v. Kress
mentioned in: Michaels, Sheila Shiki y Kessler - v. 732

*ADLER, David - Hattiesburg resident - v. 282 (1981)
Adler's Furniture; anti-Semitism in Hattiesburg; Bilbo, Theodore G.; family background; floods; Great Depression; Jewish congregation and culture in Hattiesburg; women as rabbis

*ADOPTION
Henderson, Al - v. 607

*AEROSPACE industry in Mississippi
Auter, Henry - v. 261
Cashion, Ken - v. 466
Estess, Roy S. - v. 444
Guin, J.H. v. 430
Heimburg, Karl - v. 399
Herring, Mack - v. 415
Hlass, Jerry - v. 437
LaMunyon, Ted - v. 409
Nicholson, Roscoe - v. 404
Rogers, Arthur J. - v. 386
Smith, Gerald - v. 684
Tessman, Bernhard - v. 399
Woods, E. G - v. 435
see also: Aviation; Balch, Jackson; Goddard Space Flight Center; Stennis Space Center

*AFRICAN-AMERICAN experience in Mississippi
Austin, Gladys - v. 719
Baker, Constance - v. 658
Barnes, Ariel - v. 718
Brown, R. Jess - v. 20
Burger, N.R. - v. 356
Burney, Lillie - v. 292
Campbell, Sim - v. 271-6
Carter, Henrine - v. 244
Carthan, Eddie - v. 478
Cook, Clearse - v. 722
Duckworth, C.J. - v. 352
Fielder, Alvin Sr. - v. 709
Grant, Charles - v. 298
Hamer, Fannie Lou - v. 31
Hardy, Mattie Lou - v. 733-2
Henry, Aaron - v. 33
Jones, Lillie - v. 181
Kent, Marie Washington - v. 733-3
Magee, Ruby - v. 17
McCaughey, Eloise - v. 95
Parker, Charlie - v. 400
Peters, Pete - v. 550
Sinclair, Eleanor - v. 392-21
Spinks, Eberta - v. 720
see also: civil rights movement; education; race relations

*AGRICULTURE in Mississippi
general
Ball, Mrs. R.E. - v. 389
Ball, Doyle - v. 360
Bramlett, Leon - v. 205
Burris, Lawrence - v. 306
Britt, A.E. - v. 364
Clark, Andrew - v. 407
Craig, LoRaine - v. 363
Dakin , John - v. 302
Ellzey, Lee - v. 527
Emmerich, John Oliver - v. 16
Fletcher, L.L. - v. 445
Harris, Maury - v. 304
Hicks, Hervey O. - v. 361
Johnson, Seymour - v. 202
Jones, Lillie - v. 181
Price, James - v. 556
Reed, Lyman - v. 558
Seal, Louis - v. 288
Sheldon, Anson - v. 565
Smith, Irvin - v. 570
Smith, Maggie - v. 571
Sturdivant, Mike - v. 109
Sumrall, Richard - v. K4
Thames, David - v. 579
Todd, H.P. - v. 70
Wiggins, F.M. - v. 587
Yelverton, P.A. - v. 265
Agriculture, Industry, and Commerce program
Agricultural and Industrial Board
Triggs, Gene - v. 385
African-American farmers
Carthan, Eddie - v. 478
Jones, Lillie - v. 181
Parker, Charlie - v. 400
communal farming
Deal, Borden - v. 193
Hamer, Fannie Lou - v. 31
orchards/fruit
Hennington, Mrs. Lamar - v. 76
Lumpkin, F.S. - v. 103
rice
Walker, E.M. - Williams, E.B. - v. 92
Fletcher, L.L.- v. 445
soybeans
Johnson, Seymour - v. 202
Stevens, Boswell - v. 9
sugar cane
Reyer, Joe - v. 90
truck farming
Lewis, Arthur - v. 165
Lumpkin, F.S. Sr. - v. 102
Todd, H.P. - v. 70
see also: American Agricultural Movement interviews; catfish; cattle; cotton; Delta; Mississippi, turn-of-the-century life; National Cotton Council interview series; poultry farming; tenant system

*AGRICULTURAL Act of 1970
recollections of: Denton, Chauncey - v. 123; Edwards, Macon - v. 140; Russell, Albert - v. 147

*AGUINALDO, Emilio
World War II meeting: Winter, William - v. 417

*AINSWORTH, Charles L. - Hattiesburg resident - v. 156 (1976)
church meetings; early construction; Hattiesburg in 1906; homemade medical remedies; lynching; joining the KKK; lumbermen; "putting in the hogs"; perceptions of Governors Bilbo, White and Paul Johnson Jr.; trapping wild hogs; turn-of-the-century life and culture in Hattiesburg; virgin timber and early sawmill towns; wages

*ALBERT, Carl
mentioned in: Griffin, Charles - v. 191; Giffen, Russell - v. 124

*ALCORN COUNTY, Mississippi
Huggins, Marvin - v. 304-04

*ALCORN STATE UNIVERSITY
Banks, Earl - v. 380
Brown, R. Jess - v. 20
Burger, N.R. - v. 356
Talbert, Ernestine Denham - v. 702
Thomas, Isaac - v. 733-6
White, Samuel - v. 695, Part II

*ALEXANDER, William B. - state senator - v. 346 (1974)
political programs (prison reform, county government reform, education legislation, consumer credit bill, uniform tax assessment); recollections of governors and statesmen discussion of: Corlew, John - v. 221; DeCell, Herman - v. 207; Ramsay, Claude - v. 215

*ALEXANDER, Ted - president, Pearl River Community College - v. 695, Part I (1997)
Mississippi Humanities Council

*ALFONSO Family - ethnic groups, Gulf Coast - v. 296 (1976)
Alfonso, Decidue; Alfonso, Acursio (Gus); Alfonso, Ignatius (Nathan); Alfonso, Josephine; Alfonso, Vincenzo; Carnovale, Leborah Alfonso; jurricane Camille; Gulf Coast fishing industry; Gulfport Yacht Club; Italian community on the Gulf Coast

*ALFORD, John T. - 1979 Pearl River Flood - v. 295-1 (1979)
42 inches of flood water; preparations for the flood; relief agencies; repairs and remodeling

*ALFORD, Sam W. - Pike County supervisor - v. 177 (1978)
career as a Pike County supervisor; Carmichael, Gil; Cochran, Thad; growing up in McComb; McComb tornado, 1975; Mississippi Democratic Party leadership structure; Pickering, Charles; Reed, Clarke; Republican Party, 1976 national convention; state highways; state politics; state Supervisors Association

*ALLEN, George E. - advisor to Roosevelt, Truman, and Eisenhower - v. 21 (1972)
Booneville, Mississippi; business interests; Depression-era politics; development of relief funds during the Depression; Democratic Convention of 1912; Eaton, Cyrus; Harrison, Pat; Hoover, Herbert; Hoover, J. Edgar; Hopkins, Harry; Johnson, Lyndon B.; law practice in Okolona; Nixon, Richard; nuclear politics (atomic weapons); presidential advisors; presidential election, 1944; presidential humor; presidential politics; Roosevelt, Franklin D. (and family); Truman presidency; working with three administrations
discussed in: Catledge, Turner - v. 1; Clegg, Hugh - v. 99

*ALLEN, John
discussion of: Bahr, Howard - v. 199; Wilber, Leon - v. 101
see also: University of Southern Mississippi

*ALLRED, Mike discussion of: Cochran, Thad - v. 220

*AMACKER, A. O. "Doc" educator and Pearl River County resident - v. 78 (1975)
Bilbo, Theodore; education and teaching career; turn-of-the-century life in Chinquapin; University of Southern Mississippi; views of prominent Mississippians

*AMERICAN AGRICULTURAL MOVEMENT
guide to the oral history series of interviews - v. 304
Branch, Sidney - v. 304-01
Ford, Will - v. 304-02
Harris, Maury - v. 304-03
Huggins, Martin - v. 304-04
Klyce, Fred - v. 304-05
Price, Herschel - v. 304-06
Sides, Chappell - v. 304-07
Stanley, Don - v. 304-08
general views on: Edwards, Macon - v. 140; Todd, H.P. - v. 70

*AMERICAN FARM BUREAU
Coker, Robert - v. 121
Dunn, Read - v. 139
Jackson, Robert - v. 143
Stevens, Boswell - v. 9
Wilson, Clyde - v. 136
see also: Blair, Raymond - v. 119; Mississippi Farm Bureau; National Cotton Council

*AMERICAN LEGION
Capdepon, Henry - v. 392-4

*AMERICAN RED CROSS
Carter, Sarah - v. 423
Collins, Donnie - v. 105
Henton, Mel - v. 295-23
Panico, Al - v. 295-33

*AMERICAN TEXTILE MANUFACTURERS INSTITUTE (ATMI)
Jackson, Robert - v. 143
Reid, William - v. 134
Wilson, Clyde - v. 136
see also: textile industry in Mississippi

*AMERICANS for the PRESERVATION of the WHITE RACE
Johnston, Erle - v. 276

*AMES, Mrs. Floyd I. - Hattiesburg resident - v. 500 (1973)
(No bound manuscript. Tapes and a rough transcript on deposit.) development and growth of Hattiesburg since 1880s; life history of growing up as a member of prominent Hattiesburg family; Mardi Gras in Hattiesburg

*AMITE COUNTY, Mississippi
Ball, Doyle - v. 360
Campbell, Will - v. 157
Lewis, Nathaniel - v. 182
Steptoe, Eldridge - v. 653
Willoughby, Mrs. Bennett - v. 247

*AMUSEMENTS
general
Ellzey, Lee - v. 527
Owen, George - v. 332
Wells, Buck - v. 694
chautauqua, vaudeville, minstrel shows
Berryman, Joe - v. 50
Capers, Legrand - v. 153
Estes, Mrs. W.E. - v. 54
Todd, H.P. - v. 70
Vasselus, Paul - v. 152
Wells, Buck - v. 694
Wilson, Mrs. L.A. - v. 67
church, religion, and evangelists
Bilbo, J.O. - v. 453
Brown, Mrs.
Mary E. - v. 81
Hennington, Mrs. Lamar - v. 76
Jones, Lillie - v. 181
Langley, Fred R. - v. 52
Vasselus, Paul - v. 152
Walker, E.M. - v. 92
Whitten, Mrs. Mary L. - v. 56
Wilson, Mrs. L.A. - v. 67
hunting, fishing, trapping
Guice, Wade - v. 183
Hardy, Robert - v. 395
Kelly, Jim - v. 169
Lehman, Rudolph - v. 88
Walker, E.M. - v. 92
movies and motion pictures
Capers, Legrand - v. 153
Clegg, Hugh - v. 99
Hubbell, William - v. 64
Walker, E.M. - v. 92
Wells, Buck - v. 694
toys, games, and dances
Applewhite, Fred -v. 87
Brown, Mary - v. 81
Capers, Legrand - v. 153
Lehman, Rudolph - v. 88
Wilson, Mrs. L.A. - v. 67
see also: music; sports

*ANDERSON, Alma - professional beautician and Gulf Coast resident - v. 256 (1979)
Biloxi; Great Depression; hurricane Betsy; hurricane Camille; hurricane of 1947

*ANDERSON, Ivan - Pass Christian resident, Swedish immigrant - v.392-1 (1979)
(No bound manuscript; tapes and transcript available.) Hurricane Camille; landscape architecture in Washington, D.C.; Merchant Marines; moving to the U.S. at the turn of the century

*ANDERSON, Reuben V. - Mississippi Supreme Court justice - v. 320, part I (1986) & part II (1997)
Part I: composition of the court; death penalty; Mississippi legislature and constitution; perceptions on the judgeship; personal background; racism in Mississippi State Bar; workload of the court
Part II: education in Jackson; early civil rights attorneys; filing school desegregation suits; judges and courts; violence and danger of the civil rights movement; shortcomings of desegregation; running for public office; Jackson State murders

*ANDERSON CLAYTON cotton industry firm
Dunn, Reed - v. 139
Kennedy, James - v. 125
Wilson, Clyde - v. 136
see also: National Cotton Council interviews

*APLIN, Herbert - Hattiesburg resident - v. 384 (1991)
automobile business; Civilian Conservation Corps; Great Depression; Hattiesburg history; Works Progress Administration; World War I; World War II

*APPLEWHITE, Fred L. Methodist preacher and Tylertown native - v. 87 (1973)
Civil War lore; father in R.E. Lee's Army; panic of 1888; playing baseball growing up; preaching career; Tylertown in the 1880s; When My World Was Young

*ARIZONA COTTON GROWERS ASSOCIATION
discussion of: Youngker, Charles - v. 137

*ARMSTRONG, Louis - 1979 Pearl River flood - v. 295-2 (1979)
(unedited transcript) conditions after the flood; High Tower community history; Hinds County Human Resources Agency; psychological effect of the flood; Red Cross and racism

*ARNOLD, John - Jimmie Rodgers enthusiast/impersonator - v. 433 (1975)
family background and education; Grenada, establishing a business; musician, becoming one and performing; Rodgers, Jimmie; World War II service

*ARNOLD, John R. - dairy farming and Arnold Industries - v. 114 (1975)
cattle; dairy industry; furniture manufacturing; patents; Republican county chairman; Shared Dairy System; Starkville; tenant farming; tenants leaving for industrial jobs

*ARNOLD, Yvonne - USM archivist - v. 725 (1998)
family background; growing up in Hattiesburg; South Mississippi Infirmary; Hattiesburg, development of; attending USM; working at USM

*ART and ARTISTS
Anderson, Ivan - v. 392
Cruthirds, Elsie - v. 521
Gorton, Jennie Lee - v. 195
Hull, Marie - v. 18
Kimbrough, Sara - v. 333
Kitchens, O.W. - v. 537
McDavid, O.C. - v. 166
Meng, Sue - v. 402
Rogers, Lida - v. 560
Williams, Hiram - v. 241
Williams, Richard - v. 100
see also: music

*ASHBURY COLLEGE
Johnson, Z.T. - v. 278

*ASHFORD, Wilson - World War II veteran and Starkville resident - v. 477 (1993)
World War II; Starkville; NAACP; Mississippi School Board Association; Habitat for Humanity

*ASHLAND, Mississippi
Farese, Orene - v. 700

ATOMIC WEAPONS
see: Nuclear Weapons

*ATHLETES and COACHES
Hale, Edwin - v. 68
Leech, Dewey - v. 86
Turner, T.N. - v. 28
Walters, Carl - v. 170
see also: sports; University of Southern Mississippi

*AUSTIN, Gladys - secondary school teacher, Laurel, Mississippi - v. 719 (1995)
family background; segregation; education; teaching in Mississippi; Oak Park School

*AUTER, Henry F. - aerospace engineer, Vicksburg native - v. 261 (1980)
family background; Mississippi River pilots in the family; Mississippi State University; Mississippi Test Facility; Vicksburg during the Great Depression; World War II, Occupation Army in Japan

*Authors
see: Literature and authors

*AUTOMOBILES
Carmichael, Gil - v. 176

*AVIATION
Davis, Ralph - v. 84
Hamilton, M.W. - v. 464
Hatcher, Van R. - v. 648
Key, Al - v.83
Milner, J.K. - v. 159
Sullivan, G.R. - v.167
see also: aerospace industry; Gulf Coast; Keesler Air Force Base; Korean War; transportation; Vietnam War; World War I; World War II

B

*BAHR, Howard W. - USM educator - v. 199 (1975)
Allen, John; education; family and upbringing; Fortune, Porter; McCain, William D.; Moorman, Charles; Stout, Wilbur; World War II

*BAILEY, Ben - professor, Tougaloo - v. 695, Part I (1997)
Mississippi Humanities Council

*BAILEY, James W. - Vietnam POW - v. 42 (1973)
Navy career; experiences as a prisoner of war

*BAILEY, Nan - Clarke County resident - v. 271-1 (1984)
(No bound volume; tapes available.) early-twentieth-century lifestyle, work, and attitudes in rural Clarke County

*BAILEY, Thomas Lawry
discussed in: Adam, Bidwell - v. 34; Clegg, Hugh - v. 99; Gillespie, Robert - v. 46; Hewitt, Purser - v. 10; Ivy H.M. - v. 279; Leech, Dewey - v. 86; Milner, J.K. - v. 159; Smith, Theo - v. 218

*BAKER, Constance - Eureka High School student and Head Start instructor v. 658 (1995)
Great Depression; Kelly Settlement; NAACP; racism in the north; Eureka High School; family background; desegregation, results of; growing up in Hattiesburg;

*BAKER, Harry S. - National Cotton Council of America - v. 115 (1977)
background; Cotton Council International; cotton industry problems; National Cotton Council president; National Cotton Council, working in
discussed in: Blair, Raymond - v. 119

*BALCH, Jackson
discussed in: Estess, Roy - v. 444; Hlass, Jerry - v. 437; Morrill, Peter - v. 442

*BALFOUR, Jeff - Purvis resident and alderman - v. 697 (1997)
growing up in the Piney Woods; logging and oxen; Ku Klux Klan; rattlesnake hunting; row-crop farming; attorney Lawrence Arrington; being an alderman in the city of Purvis; Tishimingo County

*BALL, Doyle - farmer, Amite and Copiah counties - v. 360 (1975)
agriculture; dairy industry; hiring out to wheat farmers in Kansas; livestock; turn-of-the-century lifestyle and farming; a practical veterinarian; work at Mississippi State University

*BALL, Mrs. R. E. - farmer, Webster and Calhoun counties - v. 389 (1974)
early life and family in Calhoun County; turn-of-the-century farming and farm life; Great Depression; modernization; tenant system

*BALLARD, Emma - Greenville resident - v. 501 (1974)
(No bound manuscript. Tape on deposit.) Bilbo and racial problems; cotton farming near Silver Creek; cotton industry; Crooked Creek church; farm life; flu epidemic of 1918; social life; turn-of-the-century life in Hattiesburg and Silver Creek area; typhus epidemics

*BANKING
Foote, L.Y. - v. 72
Lumpkin, F.S. - v. 102
Lumpkin, Franklin Jr. - v. 103
McMullan, Paul - v. 113
Quave, Russell - v. 189
Stevens, Ben M. Jr. - v. 491
Swetman, Glenn - v. 391
Switzer, John - v. 227
Todd, H.P. - v. 70

*BANKHEAD, John
Jackson, Robert - v. 143
Lockett, Aubrey - v. 128

*BANKS, Earl W. - Jackson funeral home owner and civic activist - v. 380 (1975)
Alcorn State University, attendance at; Bilbo administration, recollections of; civil rights movement; growing up on a cotton farm in Madison county; Jackson State University, attendance at; Morehouse College, attendance at; mortuary business; race relations; Republican Party

*BANKS, Fred L. Jr. - Mississippi Supreme Court justice - v. 706 (1998)
educational history; Howard University; counsel for NAACP Legal Defense Fund; school desegregation; Green v. New Kent County; Alexander v. Holmes; U.S. v. Hinds County; Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg; Voting Rights Act; working as a legislator in the Mississippi House of Representatives; circuit court, appointment to; Mississippi Supreme Court, appointment to

*BAPTISTS
Campbell, Will - v. 157
Davis, William Penn - v. 15
Hudgins, W. Douglas - v. 532
Kitchings, Harold - v. 58
Woullard, R.W. Jr. - v. 733-7
see also: Southern Baptists and the Southern Baptist Convention; Primitive Baptists; Religion; National Council of Churches; National Baptists; Mississippi Baptist Seminary

*BARBER, Eugene - Columbia resident and 1979 Pearl River Flood victim - v. 295-3 (1979)
life in Columbia; flood preparations; sandbagging controversy; Ross Barnett Reservoir; relief agencies

*BARBER, Frank - politician, judge - v. 667 (1990 & 1993)
U.S. Army; Mississippi Southern College; Johnson, Paul B. Sr.; Eastland, James O.; Brown v. Board of Education; Johnson, Paul B. Jr.; Mississippi state senate (1959); Dixiecrat convention; White Citizens' Council; Hoover, J. Edgar; Neshoba County murders anecdote of: Fairly, Ken - v. 455

*BARBER, Rims - activist and Presbyterian minister- v. 626 (1995) & v. 690 (1997)
Vol. 626: Freedom Summer; adult education
Vol. 690: work with the civil rights movement in Canton, Miss.; the Delta Ministry; school desegregation; Freedom Village; politics after the Voting Rights Act; Mississippi ACLU; Sovereignty Commission records; welfare reform; Mississippi Human Services Agenda

*BARBER, Walter L. "Red" - broadcaster, "Voice of the Brooklyn Dodgers" - v. 44 (1973)
growing up in Columbus; Florida and the railroad life; Bannister, Roger; broadcasting career, early; Dean, Dizzy; development of big league broadcasting; MacPhail, Larry; Mays, Willie; Murrow, Edward R.; professional sports today; Rhubarb in the Catbird Seat; Robinson, Jackie; Stengel, Casey (Also on deposit along with the interview is an autographed copy of Mr. Barber's book, Rhubarb in the Catbird Seat.)
see also: Holt, Charles - v.104; McRaney, Bob - v.188; Swan, Jimmy - v.187

*BARBOUR, Haley - Mississippi Republican Party - v. 301 (1978)
growing up and schooling in Yazoo City; Mississippi Republican Party; 1976 presidential campaign; Ole Miss, 1965-73; Republican National Convention, 1976 (On deposit also are clippings and campaign materials from Mr. Barbour's 1982 Senate race.)

*BARICEV, Joseph - Biloxi resident; Yugoslav immigrant - v. 284 (1982)
(No bound volume; tapes available.) life in Yugoslavia; World War I; immigrating to the U.S.; life in Biloxi; seafood restaurant; Hurricane Camille

*BARKLEY, Alben W.
discussion in: Catledge, Turner - v. 1

*BARLOW, Gary - Hattiesburg gay and lesbian community - v. 458 (1993)
gay life in Hattiesburg; harassment; realizing sexual orientation; uniting and organizing

*BARNES, Ariel - Hattiesburg teacher and librarian - v. 718 (1993, 1995)
early childhood; Eureka High School; Hattiesburg Public Library, integration of; registering to vote; World War II; teaching in Mississippi; racism in childhood

*BARNETT, O. H. - circuit court judge - v. 452 (1975)
civil rights movement; experiences in private practice; family history; grand jury; Great Depression; penal system; public defenders, introduction of; Rationing Board during World War II; Sullens, Fred; Bilbo, Theodore; women serving on juries

*BARNETT, Ross R. - Mississippi governor, 1960 1964 - v. 26 (1971)
Democratic National Convention of 1960; Dixiecrat revolt of '48; family background; gubernatorial campaigns of '51, '55, and '59; industry in Mississippi; Kennedy, John F.; Meredith, James, Ole Miss, and States' Rights
discussed in: Black, Maurice - v. 379; Blass, William J. - v. 639; Bradley, Norman - v. 194; Brady, Thomas - v. 2; Catledge, Turner - v. 1; Cochran, Thad - v. 220; Coleman, J.P. - v. 203; Corlew, John - v. 221; Crosby, L.O. - v. 155; Davis, Russell - v. 55; DeCell, Herman - v. 227; Eason, Henry - v. 45; Fairchild, Wiley - v. 212; Gillespie, Robert - v. 46; Glazier, Herman - v. 485; Griffin, W.S. - v. 414; Hall, Stanton - v. 3; Henry, Aaron - v. 33; Hewitt; Purser - v. 10; Holleman, Boyce - v. 484; Johnson, Mrs. Sidney - v. 173; Langley, Fred - v. 52; Maples, Darwin - v. 174; Mary, Charles - v. 185; McDavid, O.C. - v. 166; Newman, C.B. - v. 447; Norris, Mildred - v. 69; Swan, Jimmy - v. 187; Taylor, Robert - v. 275; Todd, H.P. - v. 70; Triggs, Gene - v. 385; Turner, Thomas - v. 28; Walker, Prentiss - v. 208; Wilson, Mrs. L.A. - v. 67; Winter, William - v. 417; Wroten, Joseph - v. 476; Yarbrough, George - v. 367; Yerger, Wirt - v. 204
see also: University of Mississippi

*BARNHILL, Roger - Freedom Summer participant - v. 626 (1995)
Freedom Summer; adult education

*BARR, Dexter
discussed in: Darby, Cooper - v. 158

*BARRENTINE, William - engineer, General Electric's Space Division - v. 619 (1993)
General Electric Company; NASA; Stennis Space Center; United States Navy; Apollo space program; space shuttle program

*BARRINGER, Lewis T. - National Cotton Council - v. 116 (1977)
American Farm Bureau; Cotton Incorporated; National Cotton Council, early problems of ; National Cotton Council, establishing; National Cotton Council, first 25 years; Senators Bilbo, Eastland, and Stennis; Truman, Harry, campaign treasurer for

*BARUCH, Bernard
discussed in: Brown, Robert - v. 60; Carter, Betty - v. 150; McDavid, E.G. - v. 160

*BASEBALL
general
Barber, Walter "Red" - v. 44
Bellande, M.J. - v. 505
Bush, Guy - v. 504
Dukes, Tommie - v. 488
Thomas, Turner - v. 28
Walters, Carl - v. 170
Webb, J.L. "Skeeter" - v. 585
baseball growing up
Applewhite, Fred - v. 87
Lehman, Rudolph - v. 88
Negro baseball leagues
Dukes, Tommie - v. 488
see also: sports; amusements

*BATES, Gladys Noel - Mississippi educator - v. 689 (1996)
teaching in Kosciusko and Jackson, Miss.; registering to vote; filing suit against the state; Mississippi Teachers Association; school desegregation; moving to Denver
Brown, Jess - v. 20
see also: Law and Legislation

*BATSON, Randolph
Lumpkin, F.S. - v. 102

*BATTLE of McComb
Maples, Clem - v. 94
Marsalis, Harry - v. 112

*BALANCE AGRICULTURE with INDUSTRY program
discussed in: Pyles, Dixon - v. 394

*BAXTER, Roy - Gulf Coast marina owner; Stennis Space Center - v. 422 (1991)
family background; Mississippi Test Facility, economic impact on Gulf Coast; Mississippi Test Facility, establishment of; Stennis, John, role in securing Mississippi Test Facility; trauma and stress of relocation

*BAY ST. LOUIS, Mississippi
see: Research Guide to the Gulf Coast Collection - v. 392

*BEALE, Lien Thi - Vietnamese immigrant, Gulf Coast resident - v. 674 (1995)
Catholic; Vietnam; Vietnam War; teaching and education; Vietnamese culture; Gulf Coast Vietnamese community; immigration

*BEAMAN, S.G. - contractor in Leake County - v. 502 (1975)
(No bound manuscript; tapes and a rough transcript available.) building and contracting industry in Leake County; growing up on a turn-of-the-century farm in Lauderdale and Lee Counties

*BEARD, Trugen - educator - v. 503 (1973)
(No bound manuscript; tape and draft available.) experiences as teacher from 1920s through the 1950s; involvement with state lobbying through the Mississippi Educators Association

*BEASON ACADEMY
Hamilton, M.W. - v. 464

*BEATTY, Francis J. - U.S. Army and National Cotton Council of America - v. 117
Cotton Incorporated, influence of; cotton industry segments; cotton warehousemen's interests; early cotton career; Farm Bureau contingent; National Cotton Council; Villa, Pancho, campaign against; World War I; World War II

*BECKWITH, Byron De La
discussed in: Carter, Betty - v. 150

*BEETS, Eva - Columbia native and journalist - v. 168 (1976)
background; bootlegging in Marion County; Davis mill in Columbia; farmer storekeeper relationship; lifestyle and farming in Columbia at the turn of the century; magazine articles; newspaper career; White, Hugh

*BELL, Dave - Hattiesburg resident; 1974 flood - v. 285-9 (1974)
(No bound volume; tapes available.) 1974 Hattiesburg flood; losing all possessions; refugee at Camp Shelby

*BELL, Josephine - Natchez resident, educator - v. 675 (1996)
Natchez; Union School; Brumfield High School; teaching; education; desegregation; integration of Natchez High School; Evers, Charles; Natchez Hotes; NAACP; Armstrong tire plant; KKK; politics; Federation of Democratic Women; Rhythm Night Club fire

*BELL, Robert Jr. - Natchez Trace Parkway - v. 504 (1975)
(No bound manuscript. Tape available.) Indian mounds and artifacts; Natchez Trace Parkway development, financing, repair, legal problems, landowners, and right-of-way

*BELLANDE, M.J. "Mickey" - professional baseball player - v. 505 (1976)
(No bound manuscript. Tapes and transcript available.) golf tournaments; growing up on the Gulf Coast; professional baseball with the Cleveland Indians; running a beer business; World War II service

*BELZONI, Mississippi
Brown, Robert v. 60
Turner, Thomas - v. 28

*BENNETT, Claude
discussed in: Roberts, Anna - v. 6; Walker, J. Fred - v. 163; Johnson, Z.T. - v. 278
see also: University of Southern Mississippi

*BENNETT, Lillian - Gulf Coast Finnish community - v. 392-13 (1973)
(No bound volume; tapes and transcript available.) changes along the Gulf Coast; Finnish ethnic group; growing up in Kreole

*BENNETT ACADEMY, Clarkson, Mississippi
see: Wood Junior College, Mathiston, Mississippi

*BENSON, F.C. - Bolivar County resident and Winstonville mayor - v. 343 (1978)
early-twentieth-century-life in Mound Bayou; civil rights; a depression in the 1920s; education for blacks; small farms and sharecropping; Winstonville history

*BENTON COUNTY, Mississippi
Farese, Orene - v. 700

*BERKO, Mary and Tom - 1979 Pearl River Flood victims - v. 295-4 (1979)
(transcript only) role of the Federal Disaster Assistance Administration in the flood; attitudes of people in Columbia

*BERLIN Airlift
Hardy, Robert - v. 395

*BERLIN Crisis, 1961
Berry, Sidney - v. 198

*BERRY, Sidney - Army officer; Hattiesburg native - v. 198 (1980)
Berlin Crisis; Bilbo, Theodore; early life; Germany, commanding V Corps in; Japan after World War II; Korea and Korean Conflict; McNamara, Robert; Meredith, James, incident at Ole Miss; Mississippi Department of Public Safety; Ole Miss; Pentagon, work at; Rusk, Dean; Vietnam, service in; West Point, appointment to; West Point, life and personalities at; West Point, superintendent at; West Point, teaching at; "Whiz Kids"

*BERRY, Mrs. Willie Mae - Pearl River Flood of 1979 - v. 295-5 (1979)
(transcript only) cleaning up the mess; life in Jackson since 1903; no preparations for the flood; rescued by a boat; relief from the Red Cross; working

*BERRYMAN, Joe - musician and band director - v. 50 (1972)
Meridian, Mississippi, during World War I; music education; organizing bands; other work in music; prominent personalities; vaudeville and chautauqua

BERTUCCINI, Mr. and Mrs. Deo F. - Ocean Springs residents - v. 686 (1973)
(No bound volume; tapes and rough transcript available) World War I; home life during World War I; growing up in Ocean Springs; barber; Great Depression

*BILBO, George - nephew of Theodore G. Bilbo and Lumberton resident - v. 440 (1985)
Bilbo, Theodore G., recollections of; Bilbo family history; life in Lumberton

*BILBO, John Oliver - nephew of Theodore Bilbo and Gulfport resident - v. 453 (1985)
Baptist association meetings; Bilbo,Theodore: education of; political predictions of; preparation for politics; racial opinions of; wives of; Bilbo family; Bilbo family politics

*BILBO, Theodore G.
Adam, Bidwell - v. 34
Bllbo, George - v. 440
Bilbo, J.O. - v. 453
Breland, Houston - v. 509
Chandler, A.B. - v. 362
Dunn, Burris - v. 331
Ladner, Heber - v. 30
O'Neal, C.E. - v. 547
Palmer, Merle Franklin - v. 419
Pyles, Dixon - v. 394
Reyer, Alma - v. 89
Smith, Otis - v. 82
Tims, P.A. - v. 387
discussed in: Adler, David - v. 282; Ainsworth, Charles - v. 156; Alford, Sam - v. 177; Amacker, A.O. - v. 78; Banks, Earl - v. 380; Barnett, O.H. - v. 452; Barringer, Lewis - v. 116; Berry, Sidney - v. 198; Bishop, F.W. - v. 431; Black, Maurice - v. 379; Brady, Thomas - v. 2; Brown, Mary - v. 81; Clegg, Hugh - v. 99; Coleman, J.P. - v. 203; Colmer, William - v. 43; Conway, Bura - v. 519; Cottingham, Mrs. T.L. - v. 520; Culpepper, J.P. - v. 14; Darby, Cooper - v. 158; Eason, Henry - v. 45; Fairchild, Wiley - v. 212; Feibelman, Julian - v. 80; Gorton, Jennie - v. 195; Haas, Irene - v. 272; Hale, Edwin - v. 68; Hall, Stanton - v. 3; Hamilton, George - v. 252; Hines, Jacqueline and Leon - v. 230; Horne, McDonald - v. 142; Hubbell, William - v. 64; Hughes, Jesse - v. 237; Ivy, H.M. - v. 279; Kirkpatrick, Clifton - v. 144; Kite, Mr. & Mrs. Johnny - v. 392-12; Kenna, Douglas - v. 246; Kimbrough, Hunter - v. 206; Langley, Fred - v. 52; Leech, Dewey - v. 86; Lester, Garner - v. 127; Lewis, Arthur - v. 165; Lumpkin, F.S. - v. 102; Maples, Clem - v. 94; Maples, Darwin - v. 174; McDavid, E.G. - v. 161; McLean, George - v. 39; Mellen, Grenville - v. 160; Ponder, Arthur - v. 263; Quave, Russell - v. 189; Reyer, Joe - v. 90; Roberts, Mrs. Anna - v. 6; Ross, T.E. Jr. - v. 61; Simmons, Hansford - v. 77; Smith, Luther - v. 11; Smith, Theo - v. 218; Sparkman, Mr. & Mrs. Colley - v. 289; Stevens, Boswell - v. 9; Thigpen, S.G. - v. 74; Todd, H.P. - v. 70; Turner, Thomas - v. 28; Walker, J. Fred - v. 163; Ward, James - v. 172; Warrington, James - v. 283; Williams, J.B. - v. 106; Wilson, Mrs. L.A.- v. 67; Young, Stanford - v. 396 see also: Luckett, Semmes; Yelverton, P. A.

*BILBO, Theodore G. Jr. - Poplarville, Jackson resident; career Army officer - v. 151 (1977)
Bastogne, battle of; Bilbo, Theodore G., Sr.; Bilbo, Theodore G. Sr., racial views of; Bilbo family, history of in America; Bond, W.F.; Harrison, Pat, thanking; Marshall, George C.; Patton, George S.; Pearl Harbor, before Japanese attack; Poplarville, Mississippi, growing up in; Sullens, Fred, feud with Senator Bilbo; U.S. Army career; U.S. Military Academy; Webb School, Bell Buckle, Tennessee; World War II (Also included with the interview is an appendix containing "A History of the Bilbo Family" by Anne Mims Wright.)

*BILLINGS, Earle Norwood - American Cotton Shippers Association - v. 260 (1982)
Allenberg v. Pittman case (Appendix B); Committee for International Cooperation between Cotton Associations; cotton shipping industry; day to day workings of ACSA; executive vice president, promotion to; growing up in McComb; railroad family life; structure of ACSA; two price cotton; uniform contract of ACSA (Appendix C); World War II service

*BILOXI, Mississippi
Anderson, Alma - v. 256
Baricev, Joseph - v. 284
Fountain, Mr. & Mrs. Armand - v. 63 (back bay)
Gehrmann, Chester - v. 392-6
Hubbell, William - v. 64 (back bay)
Kennedy, James - v. 125
Lopez, Julius - v. 149
McDermott, John - v. 368
Quave, Russell - v. 189
Ryan, Matthew - v. 63 (back bay)
Semski, Lawrence - v. 637
Seymour, Adolph - v. 63 (back bay)
Seymour, Edward - v. 63 (back bay)
Stevens, James - v. 180
Swetman, Glenn - v. 391
White, Jesse L. - v. 65
see also: Gulf Coast; Hurricanes; Research Guide to the Gulf Coast Collection - v. 392

*BIRDSONG, T.B.
Marx, Charles - v. 185
Saxon, George - v. 449

*BISHOP, E. S. - mayor of Corinth - v. 358 (1991)
Corinth, political leadership in; early life; education; Jackson College; race relations; segregation

*BISHOP, F. W. - mayor of Cleveland - v. 431 (1974)
changing political attitudes in the Delta; education; family background; floods in the Mississippi Delta; perceptions of Mississippi statesmen; tenure as mayor of Cleveland, Mississippi

*BLACK, Maurice R. - state legislator and assistant attorney general - v. 379 (1991)
early life and family; political activity; attorney general's office, work in; Barnett, Ross; Bilbo, Theodore G., Coleman, J. P.; desegregation; Dixiecrat movement; Fox, Russell and the Legal Education Advisory Commission; state legislature; White, Hugh; Wright, Fielding

*BLACKBURN, Norris C. - National Cotton Council of America - v. 118 (1977)
background; early cotton employment; Cotton Producers Institute; National Cotton Compress and Cotton Warehouse Association; National Cotton Council: defections from, work as president, work as treasurer

*BLACK EXPERIENCE IN MISSISSIPPI
see: African American experience in Mississippi

*BLACK MARKET Liquor Tax
Maples, Darwin - v. 174
Winter, William - v. 417
Young, Stanford - v. 369

*BLACKWELL, Gilbert - World War II prisoner of war - v. K1 (1988)
personal and military background; flight training; combat training; bombing missions; capture by the Germans; POW life; Mantova; Hohenslem-Ernstthal; return to the U.S. (retains literary property rights)

*BLACKWELL, Unita - civil rights activist, Mayersville resident - v. 334 (1977)
civil rights movement; growing up in the Delta; sharecropping; Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party; personalities of the movement; school desegregation in Sharkey and Issaquena Counties; Shirley MacLaine; trip to China; Mayersville

*BLAIR, Raymond E. - National Cotton Council of America - v. 119 (1977)
Agriculture Act of 1958; cotton industry problems; Cotton Producers Institute; Farm Bureau and the Council; National Cotton Council: leaders of, presidential work, problems of

*BLAIR, Warren - Quitman businessman - v. 271-2 (1984)
(No bound volume; tapes available.) early-twentieth-century lifestyle, attitudes, and work in Clarke County

*BLAKE, William Rhea - National Cotton Council of America - v. 138 (1977)
Cotton Incorporated; Delta Council work; Farm Bureau, problems with; Johnston, Oscar ; National Cotton Council, organizing; National Cotton Council and WWII ; the New Deal and cooperatives
discussed in: Blair, Raymond - v. 119; Dunn, Read - v. 139; Horne, McDonald - v. 142; Jackson, Robert - v. 143; Lipscomb, Edward - v. 145; McCabe, Gordon - v. 132; Russell, Albert - v. 147; Wilson, Clyde - v. 136

*BLASS, William J. - attorney, state legislator - v. 639 (1977)
University of Mississippi, school of law; Great Depression; World War II; race relations; Coleman, J.P.; sixteenth section lands; Bilbo, Theodore; White, Hugh; Barnett, Ross; University of Mississippi, James Meredith; Meredith, James; Waits, Hilton; Johnson, Paul B. Jr.; Citizens' Council

*BLOCKER, Jacob - dairyman, Greenville resident - v. 97 (1973)
Bible commentaries, writing; Blocker Dairy; establishing a church; migration from Holland to Greenville; Mississippi River flood of 1927; World War II price controls; testing dairy herds; Red Cross during flood

*BOARD of TRUSTEES of State Institutions of Higher Learning
general
Chain, Bobby - v. 51
Cook, Robert - v. 4
Emmerich, Oliver - v. 16
Lewis, Arthur - v. 165
Simmons, Hansford - v. 77
Simmons, Miriam - v. 695, part II
Stevens, Boswell - v. 9
Sturdivant, Mike - v. 109
Tubb, Thomas Jefferson - v. 490
Turner, Thomas - v. 28
executive secretaries
Stevens, Boswell - v. 9
Sturdivant, Mike - v. 109

*BOARDS of SUPERVISORS (county)
Alford, Sam - v. 177
Bounds, Houston - v. 111
Carmichael, Gil - v. 176
Conway, Bura - v. 519
Darby, Cooper - v. 158
Hubbell, William - v. 64
Kellar, Alton - v. 454
Tatum, Joe - 457

*BOBB, Victor - Vicksburg resident, riverboat worker - v. 507 (1975)
(No bound manuscript. Tapes, draft, and newspaper clippings on deposit.) carving hickory canes; early-twentieth-century-life in Vicksburg; work on riverboats, barges, and steamboats

*BODRON, Ellis B.
discussed in: Cochran, Thad - v. 220; Corlew, John - v. 221; DeCell, Herman - v. 207; Griffin, Charles - v. 191; Johnson, Mrs. Sidney - v. 173; Marx, Charles - v. 185; Winter, William - v. 417

*BOGGS, Mary E. - Gulf Coast resident - v. 392-2 (1976)
(No bound manuscript; tapes and transcript available.) growing up in Pass Christian; insurance business in New Orleans and Long Beach; 1947 hurricane; Hurricane Camille; Boggs, Thomas Hale; Bilbo, Theodore G.

*BOGGS, Thomas Hale
Boggs, Mary E. - v. 392-2
Morrison, Claire Boggs - v. 392-15
discussed in: Brown, Robert - v. 60; Griffin, Charles - v. 191

*BOHUSLAV, Leon - Pearl River Flood of 1979, Columbia resident - v. 295-6 (1979)
aftermath of the flood; preparations for the flood; sandbagging

*BOLIVAR COUNTY, Mississippi
Benson, F.C. - v. 343
see also: Mound Bayou

*BOLL WEEVIL
Todd, H.P. v. 70
see also: agriculture

*BOLTON, Mississippi
Bennie G. Thompson - v. 339
see also: Hinds County

*BOND, Willard F.
Darby, Cooper - v. 158
discussed in: Amacker, A.O. - v. 78; Bilbo, Theodore Jr. - v. 151; Hewitt, Purser - v. 10; Ivy, H.M. - v. 279; Leech, Dewey - v. 86; Maples, Darwin - v. 174

*BOONEVILLE, Mississipp
Allen, George - v. 21

*BOOTLEGGING in Mississippi
Beets, Eva - v. 168
Bounds, Houston - v. 111
Capers, Legrand - v. 153
Coleman, J.P. - v. 203
Daniels, Motee - v. 390
Earles, Ben - v. 190
Maples, Darwin - v. 174
Marx, Charles - v. 185
Minniece, Thomas - v. 319
Pace, William M. - v. 219
Ponder, Arthur - v. 263
Saxon, George - v. 449
Swetman, Glenn - v.391
Walker, E.M. - v. 92
see also: Prohibition

*BORGANELLI, Imogene - educator, Greenville, Miss., - v. 695, Part I (1997)
Mississippi Humanities Council; education

*BOSARGE, Saima - Gulf Coast Finnish community - v.564 (1973)
(no bound volume; tape and rough transcript available.) fishing; general lifestyle; growing up in the Gulf Coast Finnish community in the early twentieth century; social life

*BOSTAD, John - Pearl River Flood of 1979 - v. 295-7 (1979)
(No bound volume; tapes and transcript on deposit.) aftermath of the flood; preparations for the flood; rising water; Sands Motel in Columbia; volunteer agencies

*BOSTON, Eulalia - mother of broad jumper Ralph Boston - v. 508 (1979)
(No bound manuscript. Tape, draft, and newspaper clipping on deposit.) grandparents' slave stories; life history of growing up in Clarke County and living in Forrest County; marriage to a blacksmith

*BOUNDS, Houston D. "Rip" - Hattiesburg resident, teacher, and salesman - v. 111 (1978)
boards of supervisors; bootlegging; cattle dipping controversy; Cherbourg harbor, hauling casualties in; Civil War stories; coon, possums and polecats; D day; education and early teaching career; Espiritu Santo, service on; family background; Finch, Cliff; Gandy, Evelyn; Great Depression, high school in; Guadalcanal; Officer Candidate School; Pago Pago, service on; Paul B. Johnson State Park, development of; Pearl River Junior College, in 1930s; racial opinions; range sheep and wool; Red Ball highway, unloading; Seabees; tung oil industry

*BOURNE, Robert - mayor of Columbia, Pearl River Flood of 1979 - v. 295-8 (1979)
(No bound manuscript; tapes and transcript available.) mayor since 1978; preparations for the flood; waiting for the flood; reservoir controversy; news coverage of the flood; local relief agencies

*BOUTWELL, Mrs. J.R., and Mrs. J.W. Hover - Hancock County residents - v. 446 (1993)
family backgrounds; Gainesville, Mississippi; Hancock County, memories of; Logtown, Mississippi; Mississippi Test Facility; Napoleon, Mississippi; Stennis Space Center should return land to area residents

*BOWLING, Frances S. - Mississippi Supreme Court justice - v. 324 (1986)
background and education; civil procedures and Newell v. State; court case load; intermediate court of appeal; selecting judges

*BOWMAN, J.W. - Columbia civil defense, Pearl River Flood of 1979 - v. 295-9 (1979)
(No bound manuscript; tapes and transcript available.) Foxworth Road area; Highway 98 Bypass; Pearl River Bridge over Highway 98; Morgantown area; Highway 35 Bypass

*BOWMAN, S.L. - Jackson minister, Pearl River Flood of 1979 - v. 295-10 (1979)
(No bound manuscript; tapes and transcript available.) Baptist Minister's Union; Greater Clark Street Baptist Church; preparations for the flood; relief agencies; unfair treatment of blacks; church help

*BOYD, Richard and Earline - Hattiesburg residents, NAACP activists - v. 383 (1991)
Civilian Conservation Corps; civil rights movement in Forrest County; Hattiesburg, recollections of; Hercules: establishing a union and working for; race relations

*BOYS CLUBS of AMERICA
Kirkland, J.B. - v. 41

*BRACKEEN, Lt. Col. Charles - Camp Shelby, 1979 Pearl River Flood - v. 295-11 (1979)
(No bound manuscript; tapes and transcript available.) work in the National Guard; patrolling the levee; the flooding; volunteers

*BRADLEY, Bert B. - Columbia Press, Pearl River Flood of 1979 - v. 295-12 (1979)
(No bound manuscript; tapes and transcript available.) newspaper's role; photographing the flood; suggestions for future flooding problems

*BRADLEY, Charles Norman - editor of the Chattanooga Times - v. 194 (1976)
Associated Press; Barnett, Ross; Brady, Thomas P.; Carter, Hodding; Chattanooga Post; Chattanooga Times; Coleman, J.P.; Cook, R.C.; Crump, "Boss"; Emmerich, Oliver; GI revolt at Athens, Tennessee; Great Depression; Hederman, Tom; Hewitt, Purser; journalist, becoming; KKK picketing the Times; Kefauver, Estes; McGovern, George P., support for; Millsaps College, study at; working life; Milner, Dumas; Stoner, J.B.; Sullens, Fred; White, Hugh

*BRADLEY, Omar
Foote, Shelby - v. 79
Middleton, Troy H. - v. 59
see also: World War II

*BRADY, Thomas P. - Mississippi Supreme Court justice - v. 2 (1972)
Black Monday decision; Democratic Conventions, 1964& 1972; Democratic National Committee, 1960-1964; Dixiecrat and States' Rights Movement; governments, state and federal; integration, views on; jurisprudence of; Ku Klux Klan, views on; Mississippi families, perceptions of; poetry of ; race relations; Red Threat; San Antonio speech; state politicians, perceptions of; Supreme Court appointment (Literary property rights retained.)
discussed in: Bradley, Norman - v. 194; Hewitt, Purser - v. 10; Kimbrough, Hunter - v. 206; McDavid, O.C. - v. 166; Norris, Mildred - v. 69; Wilson, Mrs. L.A. - v. 67

*BRAMLETT, Leon - farmer, political activist, native Mississippian - v. 205 (1980)
campaign of 1979; Carmichael, Gil; Democratic state chairman; family and personal history; football career; growing cotton, rice, and soybeans; Mounger, Billy; Pickering, Charles; Reed, Clarke; Republican party, involvement with; Williams, John Bell
discussed in: Moye, James - v. 216

*BRANCH, Raylawni - integrator of USM, civil rights activist - v. 682 (1993)
integrating USM; integrating Big Yank; NAACP; Kennard, Clyde; Dahmer, Vernon and Ellie; KKK; Armstrong, Elaine; Till, Emmett; civil rights; Garner, Sheryl; race relations; teaching; Mobile Street; Hattiesburg History

*BRANCH, Sidney - Montgomery County farmer - v. 304-01 (1978)
(No bound volume; tapes and rough transcript available.) American Agricultural Movement

*BRATTON, Willie Vance - Federal Emergency Relief Administration - v. 305 (1983)
F.D.R. and the New Deal; FERA, work with; Great Depression; Work Progress Administration

*BREATH, Charles and Mary - Hurricane Camille - v. 228 (1979)
family background; Great Depression, memories of; Gulf Coast, growing up on; Hurricane Camille; Hurricane of 1915; LCVP boats, testing and loading; marine supply business; World War I & II, recollections of

*BRELAND, Houston - Stone County native - v. 509 (1975)
(No bound manuscript; tapes and rough transcript available.) anecdotes about Theodore Bilbo; growing up in Stone County; work as a county coroner

*BREWER, Earl LeRoy
mentioned in: Simmons, Hansford - v. 77

*BRICKELL, Doris - National League of Families - v. 266 (1978)
family background; Fuller, Robert B., captivity of; National League of Families; prisoners of war, activities on behalf of; prisoner of war families, special difficulties of; prisoner of war letters; prisoners of war, political aspects of

*BRIDGEFORTH, Lucie - professor, Northwest Mississippi Community College - v. 695, Part I (1997)
Mississippi Humanities Council

*BRITT, A. E. - Boyer (Sunflower County) resident and farmer - v. 364 (1977)
agriculture: cotton, soybeans, and catfish; mechanization and other changes in farming; tenant/sharecrop system; catfish; minstrel shows; floods; race relations; religion; steamboats and transportation; World War II service

*BRITTON, Josie - Shubuta resident - v. 271-3 (1984)
(No bound volume; tapes available.) lifestyle, attitudes, and work in Clarke County

*BROADCASTING
Barber, Walter "Red" - v. 44
Brown, Robert - v. 60
Deal, Borden - v. 193
Dean, Kenneth - v. 691
Holt, Charles - v. 104
McRaney, Bob - v. 188
Swan, Jimmy - v. 187

*BROADUS, Jesse - Stone County native - v. 510 (1973)
(No bound manuscript; tapes and rough transcript available.) growing up in Stone County; farm life in the early twentieth century; lumber industry; part-time ministry; service in World War I

*BROCKMAN, Ott - Stennis Space Center - v. 618 (1993)
early days of Stennis Space center; space program and public school outreach; Herring, Mack; von Braun, Werner; attitudes in Hancock County

*BROOKHAVEN, Mississippi
Anderson, Alma - v. 256
Mullen, Mrs. E.L. - v. 5
Smith, Andrew - v. 239
Wilson, Mrs. L.A. - v. 67
Winston, Monroe "Bill" - v. 654
see also: Lincoln County

*BROOM, Vernon H. - Mississippi Supreme Court justice - v. 323 (1976)
death penalty; Mississippi constitution; Mississippi Supreme Court; personal background; Supreme Court judges, perceptions of (Also on deposit with this interview are two other oral history interviews. The interviews are with Martin R. McLendon, first executive assistant to the Mississippi Supreme Court, and Dorothy Bryant, secretary to Justice Broom. A tape and transcript are available of Mr. McLendon; a tape is available of Mrs. Bryant.)
discussed in: Lee, Dan - v. 326; Robertson, Stokes - v. 327; Sullivan, Michael - v. 329; Williams, E.B. - v. 92

*BROWN v. BOARD of EDUCATION
see: courts of law and rulings

*BROWN, Mary Elizabeth - Perry County native - v. 81 (1972)
amusements; educational experiences; family farm; frontier life; Governors McLaurin, Vardaman, and Bilbo; Great Depression; Indian medical remedies; Indians, reminiscences of; Spanish American War and WWI; tenant farming, slavery, and race relations

*BROWN, R. Jess - Jackson lawyer, civil rights activist - v. 20 (1972)
Alcorn University, teaching at; Bates, Gladys Noel, lawsuit; early life; Freedom Summer, 1964; Kennard case, 1961; Moses, Bob; problems of a black lawyer; Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; Texas Southern Law School, study at

*BROWN, Robert Woodrow - newspaper reporter and editor - v. 60 (1973)
Carter, Hodding; Delta Star and Greenville; early newspaper experiences; Hattiesburg, growing up, and the American; journalism, progress of; Mississippi newspapermen; NBC and INS, work for; political perceptions and personalities; racial policies of newspapers; television, impact on newspapers; Washington, D.C., working in

*BROYLES, Lola - Mississippi social worker - v. 701 (1984, 1986)
Civil Works Administration; Federal emergency Relief Administration; Works Progress Administration; service in the U.S. navy during World War II; case worker in Greenwood; changes in social work through the years; work for VA

*BRYAN, Jane - librarian, educator, Pascagoula, Miss. - v. 695, part I (1997)
Mississippi Humanities Council

*BRYAN, William Jennings
Berryman, Joe - v. 50
Feibelman, Julian - v. 80

*BRYANT, Clara - Pine Hills region resident - v. 635 (1995)
Great Depression; Civilian Conservation Corps; tenant farming; Marion County

*BRYANT, Curtis - McComb resident and activist - v. 717 (1995)
early childhood; Great Depression; Bob Moses; bombing of his barber shop; McComb, Mississippi; current race relations

*BUCKLEY, Horace - state legislator - v. 354 (1977)
civil rights work; early life in Clinton and Scott County; education committee; teaching; prison reform; race relations; religion; state legislator

*BUCKLEY, Christine - Enterprise resident - v. 271-4
(No bound volume; tapes available.) twentieth-century lifestyle, work, and attitudes in Clarke County

*BURGER, N. R. - educator and reformer - v. 356 (1982)
Alcorn College; Camp Shelby in WWI and WWII ; civil rights movement; education; Hattiesburg, early twentieth century; Hattiesburg, World War II years; lynchings in Hattiesburg area; high schools, Eureka and Rowan; race relations

*BURGIN, Bill
discussed in: Coleman, J.P. - v. 203; Corlew, John - v. 221; DeCell, Herman - v. 207; Marx, Charles - v. 185; McKellar, Charles - v. 93; Sturdivant, Mike - v. 109; Tatum, Joe - v. 457; Turner, Thomas - v. 28; Winter, William - v. 417

*BURNEY, Lillie - Hattiesburg educator - v. 292 (1975)
article by Burney, Hattiesburg American; Hattiesburg, education for blacks; obituary, Burney; race relations; retirement; Senatobia, Mississippi; turn-of-the-century farm life; Sixteenth Section School in Hattiesburg; teaching

*BURNS, Peter T. Sr. - timber industry and Natchez resident - v. 729 (1997)
early life; Great Depression; World War II service; Blue Bell Globe Manufacturing Company; working for lumber companies in Natchez and Louisiana; sawmill operations; racial divisions in lumberyards; joining the family business, the Burns Shoe Shore; changes in Natchez; family background

*BURRIS, Lawrence - Pike County farmer and WWII veteran - v. 306 (1975)
cattle industry; Pike County lifestyle, turn-of-the-century; railroad work in World War II; WWII service

*BUSH, Guy T. - pro baseball player - v. 511 (1974)
(No bound volume; tapes and transcript available.) pro baseball career; pitching to Babe Ruth; pasture baseball; turn-of-the-century farm life in northeast Mississippi; sharecropping

*BUSINESS and INDUSTRY in Mississippi
Barnett, Ross - v. 26
Glazier, Herman - v. 485
Lockard, Jacob - v. 436
Powe, William - v. 377
Redd, William - v. 257
Stevens, George - v. 376
Swetman, Glenn - v. 391
Triggs, Gene - v. 385
see also: individual businesses and industries by name, e.g., cattle industry, cotton industry, dairy industry; catfish industry, construction industry, gaming industry; oil and gas industry; paper industry; seafood and fishing industry; timber, logging, and lumber industries; shipbuilding industry

*BUTLER, Alberta Sinclair - Pass Christian resident - v. 392-3 (1976)
(No bound volume; tapes and transcript available.) growing up in Pass Christian; career as a public school teacher from 1927-1969

*BUTTS, A.B.
discussion of: Horne, McDonald - v. 142; Lewis, Arthur - v. 165; Russell, Albert - v. 147

*BUTTS, William - Kilmichael native; Kentucky State University president - v. 403 (1976)
Montgomery County, growing up and education for blacks; higher education's role in community service; Mississippi Valley State University and Delta State University, years working at; racial unrest on campuses

*BYRNE, Henry Anthony, Jr. - Natchez mayor - v. 420 (1980)
Alcoholic Beverage Control Division; Evers, Charles; family background; floods, Mississippi River; funding of public services; Great Depression in Natchez; KKK and E.L. McDaniel; Mississippi State University, sports in 1950s; Natchez, industrial development of; Natchez, outlook for; Natchez, racial unrest in; railroads, decline of in 1970s

*BYRNES, James F.
Catledge, Turner - v. 1

C

*CAIN, Mary
Cotton, Gordon - v. 235

*CAINE, Curtis and Evelyn - International Woman's Year, 1977 - v. 438
(1993) International Woman's Year Conference; Mississippi delegation's platform; personal information

*CAIRE, Ronnie J. - Mississippi newspaperman and Gulf Coast resident - v. 314 (1979)
family background; famous musicians and Dixieland bands; Gulf Coast newspapers; Hurricane Camille; public relations work

*CALDWELL, Erskine - novelist - v. 13 (1971)
as a social critic; communism, association with; Faulkner, William; God's Little Acre; racial opinions; regional writing; South, reflections on; Tobacco Road; training in literature

*CALHOUN COUNTY, Mississippi
Ball, Mrs. R.E. - v. 389

*CALIFORNIA
and cotton: Baker, Harry - v. 115; Blair, Raymond - v. 119; Giffen, Russell - v. 124; Kennedy, James - v. 125

*CAMERON, Mrs. James A. - Hattiesburg nurse - v. 8 (1972)
Drs. Ross and Bethea; Hattiesburg Hospital; Hattiesburg Hospital's School of Nursing; nurses' training then and now; organizing the Mississippi Nurses Association; private duty nursing; World War I, nursing during Camille
see: hurricanes - Camille

*CAMP MEETINGS
see: amusements - church, religion, and evangelists; religion - revivals, meetings, and evangelists

*CAMP SHELBY, Hattiesburg
Arnold, John - v. 433
Aplin, Herbert - v. 384
Burger, N.R. - v. 356
Cameron, Mrs. James - v. 8
Carter, Hugh - v. 512
Connors, Mona - v. 518
Culpepper, J.P. - v. 14
Davis, Mrs. Ralph - v. 85
Earles, Ben - v. 190
Feibelman, Julian - v. 80
Hall, Stanton - v. 3
Langley, Fred R. - v. 52
Spinks, Sam - v. 693
see also: military facilities in Mississippi

*CAMP VAN DORN
Case, Carroll - v. 672
Earles, Ben - v. 190

*CAMPBELL, Boyd
Clegg, Hugh - v. 99

*CAMPBELL, Janie - Pachuta resident - v. 271-5 (1984)
(No bound volume; tapes available.) early-twentieth-century lifestyle, work, and attitudes in rural Clarke County

*CAMPBELL, Sim - Pachuta resident - v. 271-6 (1984)
(No bound volume; tapes available.) early-twentieth-century lifestyle, work, and attitudes among African Americans in rural Clarke County

*CAMPBELL, Will Davis - preacher, civil rights activist, author - v. 157 (1976)
background; Black Monday and the White Citizens' Council; civil rights and anti war activities; civil rights as a theological matter; Committee of Southern Churchmen; integration in Nashville; Ku Klux Klan; Little Rock school integration crisis; military experiences; National Council of Churches; Ole Miss, work as chaplain at; organized religion
discussed in: Clegg, Hugh - v. 99; Lewis, Arthur - v. 165

*CANTON, Mississippi
Barber, Rims - v. 690

*CAPDEPON, Henry - Gulf Coast resident, World War I veteran - v. 392-4 (1978)
(No bound volume; tapes and transcript available.) growing up in Bay St. Louis; hurricanes along the Gulf Coast; World War I and the U.S. Marine Corps

*CAPERS, LeGrand "Doc" - Vicksburg resident - v. 153 (1975)
bootlegging, saloons, and prohibition; Chautauqua; Irish and Jews in Vicksburg; minstrel shows; Mississippi River floods of 1927 and 1937; senators Vardaman, Bilbo, and J.S. Williams; Vicksburg, early 1900s; Vicksburg, tornado of 1953; Vicksburg red light district; Vicksburg National Battlefield Park

*CARAWAY, William J. - state senator, Leland resident - v. 345 (1975)
cities of Mississippi; mayor of Leland (Washington County); state senator; World War II experiences

*CARLEY, John T. - U.S. Army - v. 107 (1978)
background; Korean War; Lyman, Mississippi, a logging town; Pentagon system; retirement; Vietnam; West Point; World War II, occupation of Japan

*CARMICHAEL, Gil - Meridian businessman, Republican - v. 176 (1973, 1981)
boards of supervisors and the 1972 senate race; ethical automobiles; gubernatorial race, 1976; lieutenant governor's race, 1971; National Highway Safety Advisory Commission; National Policies Transportation Study; Republicanism and blacks; senatorial race, 1972; ultra-conservative Republicans (Also on deposit with the interview are cassette tapes of speeches delivered by Mr. Carmichael to the Hattiesburg Kiwanis and the Mississippi Educational Association).
discussed in: Alford, Sam - v. 177; Barbour, Haley - v. 301; Bramlett, Leon - v. 205; Cochran, Thad - v. 220; Giordano, Thomas - v, 129; Hewitt, Purser - v. 10; Mounger, William - v. 311; Moye, James - v. 216; Ramsay, Claude - v. 215; Retzer, Mike - v. 209; Wilson, L.A. - v. 66; Yerger, Swan - v. 265
see also: Republican National Convention of 1976

*CARNIVAL
see: Mardi Gras

*CARNOVALE, Mrs. Leborah - Gulf Coast resident - v. 296 (1976)
Alfonso Family; growing up in an Italian family; Gulf Coast; Gulfport; hurricane of 1947; USM

*CARPENTER, Barbara - director, Mississippi Humanities Council - v. 695, Part I (1997)
Mississippi Humanities Council

*CARR, Michael L. - Mississippi chancery judge - v. 469 (1993)
civil rights movement; Johnston, Erle, and the Sovereignty Commission; judicial career; legal work; Oak Grove, city incorporation case

*CARR, Andrew R. - Clarksdale resident - v. 681 (1994)
Clarksdale; Coahoma County; Coahoma Opportunities, Inc.; Henry, Aaron; Head Start; poverty; civil rights; Luckett, Semmes; SERA

*CARR, Patrick E. - attorney, WWII veteran, VFW - v. 73 (1973)
Paulding, Mississippi (Jasper County); prisoner of war experience in World War II ; Veterans of Foreign Wars, national commander; Vietnam; World War II service

*CARTER, Betty W. - Delta Democrat Times - v. 150 (1977)
Beckwith, Byron De La; Carter, Hodding; civil rights and the 1960s; Delta Star, establishing; Democrat Times, establishing; growing up and school in New Orleans Garden District; Werlein family of New Orleans; World War II, life and work during
see also: Carter, Hodding Jr.

*CARTER, Henrine Harmon - Yazoo City native and educator - v. 244 (1981)
education for blacks in the Delta; achievement test scores; busing; career, 1950 1981; Columbia University; Delta, growing up; education; integration, views on; Jackson State University; Lanier High School; Meredith, James; National Education Association; Ole Miss

*CARTER, Hodding Jr.
discussed in: Bradley, Norman - v. 194; Brown, Robert - v. 60; Carter, Betty - v. 150; Carter, Mrs. Sarah - v. 423; Crump, Brodie - v. 53; Dunn, Read Jr. - v. 139; Gorton, Jennie - v. 195; Lipscomb, Edward - v. 145; McDavid, O.C. - v. 166; Wilson, Mrs. L.A. - v. 67; Wroten, Joseph - v. 476

*CARTER, Hodding III
discussed in: Crump, Brodie - v. 53; Ramsay, Claude - v. 215; Wilson, Mrs. L.A. - v. 67; Wroten, Joe - v. 476

*CARTER, Hugh - Runnelstown resident - v. 512 (1977)
(Tapes and rough transcript available.) Civil War stories; construction of Camp Shelby; the Great Depression; Jones County Junior College; life during World War I; perception of state politicians; settlement of the Mississippi Territory

*CARTER, Jimmy
Chain, Bobby - v. 51
Johnson, Sarah - v. 243
Ramsay, Claude - v. 215
Reid, William - v. 134
Shelton, Cecil - v. 213
Swan, Jimmy - v. 187

*CARTER, Sarah - Washington County Red Cross - v. 423 (1980)
Carter, Hodding; educational experiences; family background; Mississippi Delta, farming in; Washington County; American Red Cross; Mississippi River flood of 1927

*CARTHAN, Eddie - mayor of Tchula - v. 478 (1979)
black farmers; businesses; early life and family; education, views on; mayor of Tchula; political career; race relations

*CASE, Mr. Carrol - author - v. 672 (1996)
banking; McComb; McComb Enterprise Journal; Camp Van Doren; 364th battalion; Massacre in Centreville, MS; World War II; race relations in the military

*CASHION, Ken - NASA - v. 466 (1993)
flooding on the Mississippi River; Mississippi Test Facility's Earth Resources Laboratory; working for NASA in Houston and Fort Worth

*CASSIBRY, Napoleon
discussed in: DeCell, Herman - v. 207

*CASTLEMAN affair
mentioned in: Adam, Bidwell - v. 34; Simmons, Hansford - v. 77

*CATCHINGS, Troy - Clarksdale resident - v. 659 (1994)
Coahoma Opportunities, Inc. (COI); Summer Neighborhood Youth Corps; Neighborhood Outreach Centers; adult education; Head Start; Gooden, Bennie (retains literary rights)

*CATFISH industry in Mississippi
Britt, A.E. - v. 364
Dodgen, Charles L. - v. 162

*CATHOLICS and CATHOLICISM
Harkins, Elizabeth - v. 175
Kendrick, Julia - v. 536
McDevitt, Kathleen - v. 665

*CATLEDGE, Turner - journalist - v. 1 (1971)
Barnett, Ross, and Mississippi's "bad image"; convention method, in politics; Harrison, Pat; journalism; Mississippi political figures; Pentagon Papers; political parties; politicians, non Mississippi; Philadelphia, growing up in; southern politics

*CATTLE industry in Mississippi
general
Amacker, A.O. - v. 78
Arnold, John - v. 114
Ball, Doyle - v. 360
Burris, Lawrence - v. 306
Crump, Brodie - v. 53
Johnson, Seymour - v. 202
Ladner, Heber - v. 30
Lumpkin, Franklin Jr. - v. 103
Maples, Darwin - v. 174
Marx, Charles - v. 185
McLean, George - v. 39
McLendon, Mr. & Mrs. Frank - v. 271-16
Reyer, Joe - v. 90
Seal, Louis - v. 288
Smith, Otis - v. 82
Thames, David - v. 579
Thigpen, S.G. - v. 74
Turner, Maurice - v. 687
Whitten, Mary - v. 56
dipping controversy
Amacker, A.O. - v. 78
Bounds, Houston - v. 111
Emmerich, John - v. 16
Lumpkin, Franklin Jr. - v. 103
Marsalis, Harry - v. 112
McDavid, O.C. - v. 166
O'Neal, C.E. - v. 547
Walker, E.M. - v. 92
Willoughby, Mrs. Bennett - v. 247
see also: dairy industry

*CATTON, Bruce
mentioned in: Applewhite, Fred - v. 87; Wiley, Bell Irvin - v. 211

*CAVETT, Anne - Delta resident; state Welfare Department - v. 513 (1977)
(No bound volume; tapes and a rough transcript available.) growing up and teaching in the Delta; Mississippi Welfare Department during the 1950s and '60s; working in state political campaigns

*CCC
see: Civilian Conservation Corps

*CCI
see: Cotton Council International

*CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
Gaudet, William - v. 382
Olden, Samuel B. - v. 406

*CHADWICK, Eugene B. - coach at Delta State - v. 514 (1974)
(No bound volume; tape available.) football and baseball career at Delta State University; son of the athletic director of Mississippi State University

*CHAIN, Bobby - businessman and Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning - v. 51 (1977)
Mississippi Power; Oak Ridge Atomic Energy Plant; McKinnis, A.K.; oil industry; Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning; Southern National Bank; banking; National Advisory Council for the Small Business Administration; 1964 Democratic National Convention; Johnson, Paul B. Sr.; Johnson, Paul B. Jr.; Williams, John Bell; Winter, William; Finch, Cliff; Burgin, Bill; Johnson, Lyndon; Carter, Jimmy; Gartin, Carroll; Sullivan, Charlie

*CHAMBERS, Elsie May - editor, Clarion-Ledger - v. 515 (1977)
(No bound volume; tapes available.) civil rights era; forty years of working for the Clarion-Ledger; Hawkins Quadruplets

*CHAMBLISS, Cecil Julius - Japanese POW in World War II - v. 197 (1980)
Burma Death Railroad; capture; Great Depression, farm life; Java Sea, battle of; Navy, enlistment in; prisoner of war experiences; prisoner of war organizations and reunions; release from imprisonment; Sunda Straits; USS Houston; USS West Virginia; Vietnam war

*Chancery clerks
see: Mississippi county chancery clerks

*CHANDLER, Albert B. - governor and senator from Kentucky - v. 362 (1984)
Bilbo, Theodore, perceptions of; Bilbo and Sen. Pat Harrison; Bilbo's liberalism; Bilbo's support for New Deal; U.S.Senate

*CHARLESWORTH, Clifford - NASA, Earth Resources Program - v. 287 (1974)
Apollo program; background; career with NASA; civilian contractors; Earth Resources Program; Gemini 10; Gilruth, Robert; Jeffs, George; Johnson, Lyndon B.; Kraft, Chris; Low, George; Lunney, Glynn; Mercury Program; Phillips, Sam; Skylab Program (On deposit also are Apollo-Soyuz and Skylab photographs.)

*CHASE, Veola - Eureka High School student and Hattiesburg resident - v. 733-1 (1994, 1995)
family background; education; Eureka High School

*CHATMAN, Sam - blues musician and Hollandale resident - v. 516 (1975)
(No bound volume; tapes and rough transcript available.) blues lifestyle; Memphis and Beale Street; slavery stories; Washington County life history

*Chautauqua circuit
see: amusements - Chautauqua, vaudeville, and minstrel shows

*CHENNAULT, Clare
Hamilton, M.W. - v. 464

*CHERNEY, Sue - 1979 Pearl River Flood - v. 295-13 (1979)
(No bound volume; transcript available.) coordinating volunteer agencies; follow-up study of flood victims; Mississippi Religious Leadership Conference, involvement in flood relief

*CHILD DEVELOPMENT GROUP of Mississippi
Henry, Aaron - v. 33
Stewart, Peter - v. 712

*CHOCTAW COUNTY, Mississippi
Farese, Orene - v. 700

*CHRISTIAN LIFE COMMISSION
Davis, William Penn - v. 15

*CHURCH, Bob
Greene, Percy - v. 286

*CHURCHILL, Winston
mentioned in: Colmer, William - v. 43; Bounds, Houston - v. 111

*CI
see: Cotton Incorporated.

*Citizens' Council
see: White Citizens' Council

*CIVIL DEFENSE
Guice, Wade - v. 183 Key, Al - v. 83 Lawrence, Dennis - v. 295-25 Shorter, Rex - v. 295-41 Thornhill, James - v. 295-44

*CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
general
Anderson, Reuben V. - v. 320, part II
Austin, Gladys - v. 719
Banks, Earl - v. 380
Banks, Fred L. Jr. - v. 706
Barber, Rims - v. 690
Bates, Gladys Noel - v. 689
Blackwell, Unita - v. 334
Boyd, Richard and Earline - v. 383
Brown, R. Jess - v. 20
Bryant, Curtis - v. 717
Burger, N.R. - v. 356
Caldwell, Erskine - v. 13
Campbell, Will - v. 157
Carr, Andrew - v. 681
Clark, Obie - v. 699
Cobb, Charles - v. 668
Cohen, James - v. 705
Collier, Clinton - v. 353
Cooper, Owen - v. 57
Cunningham, W.J. - v. 242
Dahmer, Ellie - v. 281
Davis, William - v. 15
Dean, Kenneth - v. 691
Duckworth, C.J. - v. 352
Evans, Wilson II - v. 638
Evers, Charles - v. 7
Fairley, J.C. - v. 375 and v. 711
Fairly, Ken - v. 455
Farese, Orene - v. 700
Glazier, Herman - v. 485
Gooden, Bennie - v. 599
Green, Winifred - v. 704
Greene, Percy - v. 286
Guyot, Lawrence - v. 673
Hall, Pinkey - v. 676
Hamer, Fannie Lou - v. 31
Hamilton, M.W. - v. 464
Jim, Barry Davis Sr. - v. 727-1
Johnson, Paul B. III - v. 456
Johnson, Sarah - v. 243
Jones, Lillie - v. 181
Lee, Clay - v. 186
Keys, Ms. Vernon J. - v. 662
Lewis, Nathaniel - v. 182
Magee, Clarence - v. 714
Magee, Ruby - v. 17
Mars, Florence - v. 179
Martin, Joe - v. 713
Marx, Charles - v. 185
McCarty, Oseola - v. 657
McDaniel, E.L. - v. 493
Michaels, Sheila Shiki y Kessler - v. 732
Minniece, Thomas - v. 319
Moore, Amzie - v. 184
Nix, James - v. 443
Page, Matthew - v. 695, Part II
Phillips, Mamie and Charles - v. 711
Price, Elizabeth - v. 605
Randolph, James - v. 373
Raspberry, William - v. 307
Ripley, Minnie - v. 341
Rubin, Larry - v. 624
Schutt, Jane Menefee - v. 623
Shelton, Cecil - v. 213
Simmons, William - v. 372
Smith, E. Hammond - v. 369
Smith, Michael - v. 448
Steptoe, Eldridge W. Jr. - v. 653
Swan, Jimmy - v. 187
Ernesting Denham Talber - v. 702
Thompson, Bennie - v. 339
Watkins, Hollis - v. 670
Weathersby, Zella - v. 710
West, Phillip - v. 629
York, Jason - v. 727-2
York, Kenneth - v. 727-3
federal, state and local officials
Barnett, O.H. - 452
Barnett, Ross - v. 26
Brady, T.P. - v. 2
Buckley, Horace - v. 354
Carr, Michael - v. 469
Coleman, J.P. - v. 203
Davis, Russell - v. 55
Dukes, William - v. 40
Griffin, Charles - v. 191
Holleman, Boyce - v. 484
Johnson, Pete - v. 44
Johnston, Earl - v. 276
Maples, Darwin - v. 174
Marx, Charles - v. 185
Tubb, Thomas Jefferson - v. 490
Wroten, Joseph - v. 476
Yarbrough, George - v. 367
Forrest County/Hattiesburg
Adickes, Sandra - v. 731
Baker, Constance - v. 658
Barnes, Ariel - v. 718
Boyd, Richard and Earline - v. 383
Fairley, J.C. - v. 375 and v. 711
Magee, Clarence - v. 714
Nix, James - v. 443
Sandifer, Iva E. - v. 633
Schwartz, Joseph - v. 736
Shaw, Terri - v. 724
Smith, E. Hammond - v. 369
Spinks, Eberta - v. 720
see also: Council of Federated Organizations; education - school desegregation; Freedom Summer; integration; Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; Philadelphia murders; race relations; racial violence; Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

*CIVIL WAR, American
Applewhite, Fred - v. 87
Bounds, Houston - v. 111
Capers, Legrand - v. 153
Carter, Hugh - v. 512
Clark, Clifton - v. 517
Denham, George - v. 525
Foote, Shelby - v. 79
Harned, Horace - v. 355
Johnson, Mrs. Sydney - v. 173
Langley, Fred - v. 52
Smith, Mrs. P.E. "Katie" - v. 660
Spruill, Charlcie - v. 572
Williams, Kenneth - v. 470
see also: Davis, Jefferson; Grant, Ulysses S.; Lee, Robert E.

*CIVILIAN CONSERVATION CORPS
Abbott, Samuel - v. 249
Aplin, Herbert - v. 384
Boyd, Richard and Earline - v. 383
Clark, Lee Roy - v. 232
Daniels, Motee - v. 390
Deal, Borden - v. 193
Fairley, J.C. - v. 375
Griffin, Wilbur - v. 414
Nelms, W.C. - v. 381
Sullivan, G.R. - v. 167

*CLARION-LEDGER
Chambers, Elsie May - v. 515
Davis, Ben - v. 524
Hewitt, Purser - v. 10
Pyles, Dixon - v. 394

*CLARK, Andrew Belton - Yazoo County native - v. 407 (1980)
Linden Plantation; turn-of-the-century plantation lifestyle, plantation stories; yellow fever epidemic

*CLARK, Clifton C. - Ruth (Lincoln County) resident - v. 517 (1980)
(No bound volume; tape available; transcript available-on deposit in Oral History office.) Turn-of-the-century lifestyle; Civil War stories; flu epidemic of 1917; Mississippi River flood of 1927; Great Depression; lumber industry; Ku Klux Klan; perceptions of early-twentieth-century state politicians

*CLARK, Fred Sr. - Jackson resident - v. 494 (1994)
Freedom Riders; Evers, Medgar; Meredith, James; Tougaloo; integration; Schwerner and Goodman, Neshoba County murders; race relations

*CLARK, James - World War II prisoner of war - v. K2 (1989)
capture; flight training; life as a POW; mission descriptions; organizational training as an aerial gunner; overseas duty; personal and military background; return to U.S. and civilian life (retains literary rights)

*CLARK, Lee Roy, Jr. - Hurricane Camille survivor - v. 232 (1979)
Civilian Conservation Corps; drill sergeant; eye of the hurricane; family background; Great Depression; Hurricane Camille; aftermath of; Japanese, hostile feelings towards; Lear, Ben; military service; Patton, George S.; relief agencies; tornadoes; wind, force of

*CLARK, Obie - educator and businessman, Meridian, Miss. - v. 699 (1997)
growing up in rural Kemper County; "Bloody Kemper"; teaching in Kemper County; teaching in Meridian; school desegregation in Meridian; black leadership in Meridian; antipoverty programs; civil rights; the Ayers case

*CLARKE COUNTY, Mississippi
Boston, Eulalia - v. 508
Parker, Charlie - v. 400
see: Research Guide to the Clarke County Collection - v. 271

*CLARKSDALE, Mississippi
Carr, Andrew - v. 681
Catchings, Troy - v. 659
Gooden, Bennie - v. 599
Graves, Sid Jr. - v. 695, Part I
Keys, Ms. Vernon J. - v. 662
Luckett, Semmes - v. 370
Wilson, Mayo D. - v. 645

*CLEGG, Hugh H. - FBI agent - v. 99 (1975)
Allen, George; Bailey, Tom; Bennett Academy; Bilbo, Theodore G.; Campbell, Boyd; Campbell, Will Davis; communism; Conner, Mike; Cummings, Homer; Curtis, Charles; DeLoach, Deke; Dillinger, John, directing pursuit of; Dirksen, Everett; FBI career; Feibelman, Julian; George Washington University law school; Gillespie, Robert; Harrison, Pat; Hoover, J. Edgar; Jackson; Kershaw; leaders, state and national; Mathiston, growing up in; McKellar, Kenneth; Meredith, James, and the Ole Miss integration; Millsaps College; Ole Miss; Stephens, Hubert; Sullens, Fred; Sullivan, William; The Rebel Record; Tolson, Clyde; Supreme Court; Whitfield, Henry Lewis; Williams, John Sharpe; Winchell, Walter; World War II
discussed in: Gillespie, Robert - v. 46; Turner, Thomas - v. 28

*CLEMENTS, Joseph H. - World War II Veteran - v. 465 (1993)
Alaska; effects of war on soldiers, D day; German campaign; GI Bill; Northern France campaign; Saint-Lô

*CLEMONS, Cynthia - Hattiesburg flood of 1974 - v. 285-7 (1974)
(No bound volume; tape available.) Hattiesburg flooding; rescued by Camp Shelby personnel

*CLEMSON, Barry - Freedom Summer participant - v. 626 (1995)
Freedom Summer; adult education

*CLEVELAND, Mississippi
Bishop, F.W. - v. 431
see also: Bolivar County

*CLINTON, Mississippi
Buckley, Horace - v. 354
see also: Hinds County

*CLOVER, Chandler - 1979 Pearl River Flood - v. 295-14 (1979)
(No bound volume; transcript available.) aftermath of the flood; flood experiences; involvement in the flood; preparations made at the hospital; Woman's Hospital

*CLOWER, Jerry - television personality - v. 38 (1973)
Grand Ole Opry; Liberty, Mississippi, life in; Mississippi Chemical Corporation, business career with; Navy career; racial changes in Mississippi; show business (Also on deposit with the interview are three record albums, "Jerry Clower from Yazoo City, Mississippi, Talking," "Jerry Clower, Mouth of Mississippi," and "Clower Power," and one reel-to-reel tape, "Country Crossroads.")

*CLOWER, Mrs. Oliver Barrett - Hurricane Camille - v. 222 (1979)
early life; eye of Hurricane Camille; Hurricane Camille; hurricane of 1909; hurricane of 1914; looters

*COAHOMA COUNTY, Mississippi
Carr, Andrew - v. 681
Catchings, Troy - v. 659
Edwards, Macon - v. 140
Gooden, Bennie - v. 599
Jackson, Robert - v. 143
Keys, Ms. Vernon J. - v. 662
Ross, Harvey T. - v. 663
Wilson, Mayo D. - v. 645

*COAST GUARD, U.S.
Johnson, Nestor - v. 48

*COBB, Charles - civil rights activist - v. 668 (1996)
civil rights; SNCC; Moore, Amzie; NAACP; Evers, Medgar; voter registration in Sunflower County; racial violence; Hamer, Fannie Lou; adult education ; gender and generation in leadership within the civil rights movement; Freedom Summer; Freedom Schools

*COBERLY, William B. Jr. - director, National Cotton Council - v. 120 (1977)
cotton industry, issues in; crusher segment in cotton industry; economics and cotton; National Cotton Council

*COCA-COLA
Culpepper, Mallard - v.522
Fryant, G.V. - v.530
Milner, J.K. - v. 159

*COCHRAN, Thad - U.S. congressman and U.S. senator - v. 220 (1982)
Allred, Mike; Barnett, Ross; biographical discussion; Bodron, Ellis; campaign costs; Carmichael, Gil; Dye, Brad; Eastland, James; Evers, Charles; Ford, Gerald; Johnson, Paul B., Jr., gubernatorial campaign; Kennedy, John F.; Mounger, Billy; Navy ROTC; Nixon, Richard M.; Ole Miss, integration of; Ole Miss, law school at; Pickering, Charles, victory over; Sullivan, Charles; Trinity College; Watergate; Yerger, Wirt
mentioned in: Mounger, William - v. 311; Simmons, Hansford - v. 77; Yerger, Wirt - v. 204

*COFFEEVILLE, Mississippi
Side, Chappell - v. 304-7

*COHEN, James - Hattiesburg pharmacist - v. 705 (1976)
family background; growing up in Forrest County; Alcorn State University; pharmacist; relationship with Aaron Henry; biracial committee; civil rights; Petal High School, integration; racial violence; involvement in local politics

*COKE& GRAPHITE industry
Tatum, Joe - v. 457

*COKER, Paul - Shubuta resident and businessman - v. 271-7 (1984)
(No bound volume; tapes available.) lifestyle, attitudes, and work in early-twentieth-century-rural Clarke County

*COKER, Robert R. - National Cotton Council of America - v. 121 (1977)
family background; National Cotton Council; seed breeding (Also deposited is a collection of Mr. Coker's speeches.)

*COLEMAN, J.P. - Mississippi governor, U.S. Court of Appeals judge - v. 203 (1981)
Abernathy, Tom; alcohol regulation; attorney general; Barnett, Ross; Bilbo, Theodore; Burgin, Bill; capital punishment; clearing the record; Coleman family background; Colmer, William; Conner, Mike; Eastland, James O.; executive clemency; Finch, Cliff; Ford, Aaron; Gartin, Carroll; George Washington University; governor of Mississippi; Great Depression; Harrison, Pat; in legislature of Mississippi; Johnson, Lyndon Baines; Kefauver, Estes; Kennedy, John F.; King, Clennon; Kuntzler, William; law and early political career; a lynching; McGehee, Dan; Meredith, James, incident at Ole Miss; Mississippi Club (Washington, D.C.); Mississippi Highway patrol; National Guard, using for law enforcement; pardons; Parker, Mack Charles; plea bargaining; practicing law; racial integration; racial issue in 1955; raiding a still; Rankin, John; Rayburn, Sam; Roosevelt, Eleanor; Sillers, Walter; Smith, Frank; Spenkalenk Case; Stennis, John C.; Stevenson, Adlai; Sullivan, Charles; U.S. Court of Appeals; U.S. Supreme Court; University of Mississippi, law school at; Waller, William; White, Hugh; Whittington, Will; Williams, John Bell; Winter, William
discussed in: Black, Maurice - v. 379; Bradley, Norman - v. 194; DeCell, Herman - v. 207; Eason, Henry - v. 45; Fairchild, Wiley - v. 212; Hall, Stanton - v. 3; Hewitt, Purser - v. 10; Holleman, Boyce - v. 484; Johnson, Pete - v. 441; Leech, Dewey - v. 86; Maples, Darwin - v. 174; Marx, Charles - v. 185; McDavid, E.G. - v. 161; Mellen, Grenville - v. 160; Newman, C.B. - v. 447; Quave, Russell - v. 189; Ramsay, Claude - v. 215; Simmons, Hansford - v. 77; Triggs, Gene - v. 385; Walker, E.M. - v. 92; Winter, William - v. 417; Wroten, Joseph - v. 476; Young, Stanford - v. 396

*College Board
see: Board of Trustees, State Institutions of Higher Learning

*COLLIER, Clinton - minister, civil rights activist - v. 353 (1981, 1994)
civil rights movement; early life; Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party; Mississippi governors; Philadelphia murders; race relations; religion; segregation; Sovereignty Commission

*COLLINS, Donnie K. - wife of a Vietnam POW - v. 105 (1974)
Air Force wife, life as; Hattiesburg flood of 1974; Hurricane Camille relief; National League of Families; prisoner-of-war families, difficulties of; prisoner-of-war wife, life as; Red Cross work See also Collins, Thomas Edward III; Vietnam Prisoners-of-War; Vietnam War

*COLLINS, Joseph Lawton "Lightning Joe"
mentioned in: Middleton, Troy - v. 59
see also: World War II

*COLLINS, Mississippi
Weathersby, Zella - v. 710

*COLLINS, Ross A.
mentioned in: Ladner, Heber - v. 30

*COLLINS, Thomas Edward III - Utica native and Vietnam POW - v. 36 (1973)
aerial combat; bombing halt in 1968; capture experiences; F-4 Phantom jet; family background; "Hanoi Hilton"; interrogation and torture; North Vietnamese villagers, treatment by; prisoner of war experiences; "Project Homecoming"; release from captivity; repatriation experience; Vietnam war protest movement
see also: Collins, Donnie K.; Vietnam Prisoners of War; Vietnam War

*COLMER, William - U.S. representative from Mississippi, 1932-73 - v. 43 (1973)
Bilbo, Theodore G.; Churchill, Winston; Congressional career; county attorney, work as; district attorney, work as; Economic Policy Committee; Eisenhower, Dwight D.; Gautier, Hermes; House Rules Committee, chairing; Johnson, Lyndon B.; Kennedy, John F.; law and early political career; McAdoo, William Gibbs; New Deal, opinions on; Nixon, Richard M.; Roosevelt, Franklin D.; self appraisal; "Southern Bloc" in Congress; Sullens, Fred; Truman, Harry S.
discussed in: Coleman, J.P. - v. 203; Crosby, L.O. Jr. - v. 155; Culpepper, J.P. - 14; Darby, Cooper - v. 158; Foote, L.Y. Sr. - v. 72; Haas, Irene - v. 272; Hull, Edgar - v. 439; Kirkpatrick, Clifton - v. 144; Mellen, Grenville - v. 160; Milner, J.K. - v. 159; Moye, James - v. 216; Stevens, Boswell - v. 9; Todd, H. P. - v. 70; Walker, Prentiss - v. 208; Warrington, James - v. 283; Wilson, L.A. - v. 66; Wilson, Mrs. L.A. - v. 67

*COLONIAL DAMES of the SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
Haas, Irene - v. 272
Smith, Frances T. - v. 661

*COLSON, Joe. V. - seafood industry- v. 273 (1979)
growing up on the Gulf Coast; Gulf States Marine Fisheries; Hurricane Camille; seafood industry

*COLUMBIA, Mississippi
Beets, Eva - v. 168
Bourne, Robert - v. 295-8
Bradley, Bert - v. 295-11 (Columbian Press)
Patterson, Robert - v. 295-34
Saunders, Joe - v. 295-40
Williams, Lester - v. 166 (Columbian Progress)
see also: Pearl River - 1979 flood interviews

*COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, New York City, New York
Carter, Henrine - v. 244

*COLUMBUS, Mississippi
Barber, Walter "Red" - v. 44
Fant, Joseph - v. 695, Part I
Hardy, Robert - v. 395
see also: Mississippi University for Women

*COMMUNISM
Clegg, Hugh - v. 99
Gaudet, William - v. 382
Greene, Percy - v. 286

*COMMITTEE on the PRESERVATION of CIVIL RIGHTS PAPERS
Johnston, Erle - v. 276

*CONERLY, Charles
mentioned in: Hale, Edwin - v. 68; Walters, Carl - v. 170

*CONNALLY, John
McDavid, E.G. - v. 161

*CONNER, Mike
Adam, Bidwell - v. 34
Bradley, Norman - v. 194
Brown, Robert - v. 60
Clegg, Hugh - v. 99
Coleman, J.P. - v. 203
Crosby, L.O. - v. 155
Eason, Henry v. 45
Emmerich, Oliver - v. 16
Hewitt, Purser - v. 10
Hicks, Hervey - v. 361
Holleman, Boyce - v. 484
Johnson, Mrs. Sidney - v. 173
Kenna, Edgar - v. 246
Leech, Dewey - v. 86
Lester, Garner - v. 127
Lumpkin, F.S. Sr. - v. 102
Mauldin, Byrd - v. 293
Mellen, Grenville - v. 160
Norris, Mildred - v. 69
Ponder, Arthur - v. 263
Pyles, Dixon - v. 394
Reyer, Alma - v. 89
Ross, T.E. - v. 61
Smith, Lester - v. 11
Wilson, Mrs. L.A. - v. 67

*CONNOR, Donald L. - Ocean Springs resident - v. 392-5 (1981)
(No bound volume; tape and transcript available.) 1699 Historical Committee; hurricanes on the Gulf Coast; insurance auditing; Ocean Springs Planning Commission

*CONNORS, Mona - Hattiesburg resident - v. 518 (1974)
(No bound volume; tapes available.) businesses; Camp Shelby; growth of businesses; families of Hattiesburg; flu epidemic of 1917; perceptions of governors; race relations; turn-of-the-century lifestyle in Hattiesburg

*CONSTITUTION of the State of Mississippi
see: Mississippi Constitution of 1890

*CONSTRUCTION and CONTRACTING industries in Mississippi
Beaman, S.G. - v. 502
Fairchild, Wiley - v. 212

*CONWAY, Bura - New Augusta (Perry County) farmer - v. 519 (1981)
(No bound volume; tapes and rough transcript available.) continuing to plow with oxen; farming in Perry County; memories of Theodore Bilbo; service on the board of supervisors

*COOK, A. B. - son of the first USM president - v. 290 (1980)
banking career; Bilbo, Theodore; Cook, Joe; Great Depression; growing up on a plantation in Lowndes County; timber industry; WWI service

*COOK, Clearse - Hattiesburg resident - v. 722 (1994)
growing in Palmer's Crossing; Great Depression; racism and race relations; impact of World War II on her family; family background

*COOK, Joseph A.
Amacker, A.O. - v. 78
Cook, A.B. - v. 270
McLemore, Richard - v. 25
O'Ferral, C.A. - v. 96
Roberts, Anna - v. 6
Vasselus, Paul - v. 152
Walker, J. Fred - v. 163
Whitten, Mary - v. 86
see also: Mississippi Normal College; University of Southern Mississippi

*COOK, Robert Cecil - Mississippi Southern College - v. 4 (1972)
campus growth; early teaching career; faculty, MSC; faculty in 1940; Fine Arts Building; Fortune, Porter; Gore, Jesse; journalistic career; Latin American Institute; life insurance company; military career; pranks; president, MSC; State Institutions of Higher Learning; Stout, Wilbur; University of Mississippi, dean of School of Education; University Press, organization of; Vann, Thad "Pie;" vice president, Jackson State Times; World War II and Southern
discussed in: Bradley, Norman - v. 194; Landskov, N.L. - v. 277; McLemore, Richard - v. 25; Roberts, Anna - v. 6; Turner, Thomas - v. 28; Walker, J. Fred - v. 163; Wilbur, Leon - v. 101 see also: University of Southern Mississippi.

*COOLIDGE, Calvin
mentioned in: Mellen, Grenville - v. 160

*COOPER, Owen - Mississippi Chemical Corporation - v. 57 (1972)
civil rights participation; Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation and Mississippi Chemical Corporation; Southern Baptist Convention, work as president of

*COOPERATIVE EXTENSION SERVICE
May, W.T. - v. 539
Price, James - v. 556
Spurlock, Ann C. - v. 573

*COPELAND, Clifton - World War II POW - v. 250 (1974)
Corregidor, duty at; effects of incarceration; family background

*Copeland Gang
see: Outlaws of Mississippi

*COPIAH COUNTY, Mississippi
Ball, Doyle - v. 360
Cottingham, Mrs. T.L. - v. 520
Kitchens, O.W. - v. 537

*COPIAH-LINCOLN COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Thames, Billy - v. 695, Part II

*CORBAN, Emma Ruth - Fayette resident and educator - v. 357 (1991)
alcohol education; early life and family; education; junior colleges, work in; merger of Mississippi Education Association with Mississippi Teachers Association; school desegregation; tenant system; University of Mississippi

*CORINTH, Mississippi
Bishop, E. S.- v. 358

*CORLEW, John G. - state senator - v. 221 (1979)
Alexander, Bill; Appropriations Committee; Barnett, Ross R.; Bodron, Ellis; Burgin, Bill; family background; Gandy, Evelyn; Gresham, "Buddy"; Ingram, Carroll; legislation, example of passing a bill; lieutenant governor, power of; Meredith, James, incident at Ole Miss; Mississippi electorate, comments on; Republican growth; Stennis, John; University of Mississippi, integration of; University of Mississippi, study at; Vanderbilt law school; Winter, William
discussed in: Ramsay, Claude - v. 215

*CORTRIGHT, George - National Cotton Council of America - v. 122 (1977)
cotton industry; governmental appointments; National Cotton Council; Rolling Fork, growing up in; tenant system today and during World War II perceptions of v. 144

*COSBY, Walter T. - Mississippi Central Railroad - v. 245 (1983)
Mississippi Central Railroad; railroad competition; railroad industry, changes in; railroad industry, early years of

*COSSAR, George Payne
mentioned in: Maples, Darwin - v. 174

*COTTINGHAM, Mrs. T.L. "Lizzie" - Crystal Springs (Copiah County) - v. 520 (1972)
(No bound volumes; tape and transcript available.) growing up in Copiah County; memories of Theodore Bilbo, Pat Harrison, and Alton Parker

*COTTON, Gordon A. - educator, journalist, museum director - v. 235 (1983)
Cain, Mary; Davis, Jefferson; family history; Mississippi College; Primitive Baptist beliefs and history; Vicksburg in the 1940s

*COTTEN, Dr. Paul - school administrator - v. 644 (1995)
Ellisville State School; Boswell Regional Center; William Carey College; mentally handicapped; University of Southern Mississippi; McComb; music therapy; segregation; State Supervisor of Special Education; foster-grandparents program; deinstitutionalization; retirement home for mentally handicapped people

*COTTON BOARD
Ford, Hadley - v. 141
Kirkpatrick, Clifton - v. 144
Power, Carlton - v. 146
Youngker, Charles - v. 137
see also: cotton industry; Research and Promotion Act of 1967

*COTTON COUNCIL INTERNATIONAL
Baker, Harry - v. 115
Beatty, Francis - v. 117
Edwards, Macon - v. 140
Jackson, Robert - v. 143
Kennedy, James - v. 125
Lipscomb, Edward - v. 145
Russell, Albert - v. 147
see also: cotton industry

*COTTON INCORPORATED
Barringer, Lewis - v. 116
Blake, William - v. 138
Denton, Chauncey - v. 123
Giffen, Russell - v. 124
Jackson, Robert - v. 143
Kennedy, James - v. 125
Kirkpatrick, Clifton - v. 144
Lockett, Aubrey - v. 128
Maros, Mike - v. 300
Power, Carlton - v. 146
Reid, William - v. 134
Russell, Albert - v. 147
Stevens, Boswell - v. 9
Wilson, Clyde - v. 136
Youngker, Charles - v. 137
see also: cotton industry; National Cotton Council

*COTTON industry in Mississippi
Baker, Harry - v. 115
Ballard, Emma - v. 521
Barringer, Lewis - v. 116
Beatty, Francis - v. 117
Billings, Earle - v. 260
Blair, Raymond - v. 119
Blackburn, Norris - v. 118
Blake, William - v. 138
Britt, A.E. - v. 364
Coberly, William - v. 120
Coker, Robert - v. 121
Cortright, George - v. 122
Crump, Brodie - v. 53
Curtis, Perry - v. 523
Davis, William - v. 15
Denton, Chauncey Jr. - v. 123
Dunn, Read - v. 139
Edward, Macon - v. 140
Ford, Hadley - v. 141
Giffen, Russell - v. 124
Horne, M.K. Jr. - v. 142
Hughes, Jesse - v. 237
Jackson, Robert - v. 143
Kennedy, James - v. 125
Kirkpatrick, Clifton - v. 144
Lawson, W.D. III - v. 126
Lester, Garner - v. 127
Lipscomb, Edward - v. 145
Lockett, Aubrey - v. 128
Lynn, Bruce - v. 299
Magee, Ruby - v. 17
Mayes, J.E. - v. 131
McCabe, Gordon Jr. - v. 132
Mellen, Grenville - v. 160
Montgomery, Walter Sr. - v. 133
Ponder, Arthur - v. 263
Power, Carlton - v. 146
Reid, William - v. 134
Russell, Albert - v. 147
Sayre, Charles - v. 135
Sears, Earl - v. 148
Sheldon, Anson - v. 565
Stevens, Boswell - v. 9
Sturdivant, Mike - v. 109
Todd, H.P. - v. 70
Turner, Thomas Newell - v. 28
Vickers, Hawkins - v. 37
Wilson, Clyde - v. 136
Youngker, Charles - v. 137
see also: agriculture in Mississippi; American Cotton Shippers Association; Cotton Board; Cotton Incorporated; Cotton Council International; Cotton Work; Cotton Warehousemen; Cottonseed Breeding; Cottonseed Crushers; Cotton Producers Institute; National Cotton Compress and Cotton Warehouse Association; National Cotton Council of America; Producers Steering Committee; Research and Promotion Act; tenant and sharecropping system

*COTTON PRODUCERS INSTITUTE (CPI)
Baker, Harry - v. 115
Blackburn, Norris - v. 118
Blake, William - v. 138
Blair, Raymond - v. 119
Edwards, Macon - v. 140
Giffen, Russell - v. 124
Kennedy, James - v. 125
Kirkpatrick, Clifton - v. 144
Lockett, Aubrey - v. 128
Power, Carlton - v. 146
Sayre, Charles - v. 135
Sears, Earl - v. 148
Wilson, Clyde - v. 136
Youngker, Charles - v. 137
see also: cotton industry; producers steering committee

*Cotton Research and Promotion Act (1966)
see: Research and Promotion Act of 1966

*COUNCIL of FEDERATED ORGANIZATIONS (COFO)
Adickes, Sandra - v. 731
Hamer, Fannie Lou - v. 31
Henry, Aaron - v. 33
Mars, Florence - v. 179
Michaels, Sheila Shiki y Kessler - v. 732
see also: civil rights movement

*County agents
see: Cooperative Extension Service

*COUNTY government
Alford, Sam - v. 177
Carmichael, Gil - v. 176
Darby, Cooper - v. 158
Kellar, Alton - v. 454
Tatum, Joe - v. 457
see: Mississippi, state and local officials; boards of supervisors.

*COURTS of LAW and RULINGS
general
Adickes, Sandra - v. 731
Anderson, Reuben V. - v. 320
Banks, Fred L. Jr. - v. 706
Barnett, O.H - v. 452
Brown, R. Jess - v. 20
DeCell, Herman - v. 207
Frohman, Patricia, Betty Jones and Mary Seaton - v. 688
Holleman, Boyce - v. 484
Kendrick, Julia - v. 536
Maples, Darwin - v. 174
Mars, Florence - v. 179
Norris, Mildred - v. 69
Walker, E.M. - v. 92
Brown v. Board of Education and other desegregation cases
Banks, Fred L. Jr. - v. 706
Barber, Frank - v. 667
Brady, Thomas - v. 2
Campbell, Will - v. 157
Clark, Obie - v. 699
Cox, Robert - v. 643
Gillespie, Robert - v. 46
Griffin, Charles - v. 191
Henry, Aaron - v. 33
Mars, Florence - v. 179
Ramsay, Claude - v. 215
Rogers, George W. - v. 652
Young, Stanford - v. 396
sentencing, pardons, penal system
Barnett, O.H. - v. 452
Coleman, J.P. - v. 203
Maples, Darwin - v. 174
Marx, Charles - v. 185
Norris, Mildred - v. 69
proceedings, caseloads, process, juries
Barnett, O.H. - v. 452
Hall, Stanton - v. 3
Johnson, Sarah - v. 243
Maples, Darwin - v. 174
Norris, Mildred - v. 69
Reyer, Alma - v. 89
see also: crime and law enforcement; Federal Bureau of Investigation; Mississippi, judiciary of; Mississippi Highway Patrol; specific cases by name

*COVINGTON COUNTY, Mississippi
Fairchild, Wiley - v. 212
Myers, Hulon - v. 349
Napier, Irene - v. 259
Ponder, Arthur - v. 263
Talbert, Ernestine Denham - v. 702
Thames, David - v. 579
Weathersby, Zella - v. 710

*COX, Robert Elton - educator - v. 643 (1993?)
Minimum Foundation Program; Great Depression; Brown v. Board of Education; integration; Madison County; World War II

*CPI
see: Cotton Producers Institute

*CRAIG, LoRaine - Greenville native and farmer - v. 363 (1977)
agriculture; floods; Greenville at the turn of the century; mechanization; sharecropping/tenant system; steamboats

*CRIME and LAW ENFORCEMENT
Byrne, Tony - v. 420
Clegg, Hugh - v. 99
Coleman, J.P. - v. 203
Dukes, William - v. 40
Fisher, Larry - v. 295-17
Fondren, David - v. 295-9
Gillespie, Robert - v. 46
Hall, Stanton - v. 3
Hughes, Jesse - v. 237
Maples, Darwin - v. 174
Marx, Charles - v. 185
Milner, J.K. - v. 159
Pope, Ray - v. 295-37
Saxon, George - v. 449
Swetman, Glenn - v. 391
Wilson, L.A. - v. 66
see also: courts of law and rulings; Federal Bureau of Investigation; Mississippi, judiciary of; Mississippi Highway Patrol; law and legislation; racial violence

*CRISLER, Giles W.
Marx, Charles - v. 185

*CROOK, Robert
Griffin, Charles - v. 191

*Crop dusting
see: aviation

*CROSBY, Dorothy - wife of L. O. Crosby Jr. - v. 475 (1992)
early life in Dakotas; Picayune in the early twentieth century

*CROSBY, L. O. Jr. - Picayune businessman - v. 155 (1974)
civic involvement; Crosby Enterprises, scope of; Goodyear Yellow Pine Company, developing; paint business, developing; philanthropic enterprises; tung oil industry, developing; wire bound box business
discussed in: Lumpkin, F.S. Sr. - v. 102; Lumpkin, Franklin Jr. - v. 103; Walker, E.M. - v. 92
see also: Crosby family; Goodyear Yellow Pine Company; Lumber industry; Picayune, Mississippi; Thigpen, S.G.; Tung oil industry in Mississippi

*CROSBY, L. O. Sr.
discussed in: Thigpen, S.G. - v. 74
see also: Crosby family

*CROSBY family
discussed in: Acker, Freddie - v. 418; Brady, Thomas - v. 2; Crosby, Dorothy - v. 475; Lumpkin, F.S. Sr. - v. 102; Lumpkin, Franklin Jr. - v. 103

*CRUMP, Brodie - Greenville resident and journalist - v. 53 (1974)
Carter, Hodding Jr., perceptions of; Carter, Hodding III, perceptions of; cattle, raising; cotton broker, work as; Greenville at the turn of the century; Greenville, integration in; Mississippi River Flood of 1927; newspaper columnist, work as; Percy family of Greenville

*CRUMP, Ed, "Boss"
mentioned in: Bradley, Norman - v. 194; Crump, Brodie - v. 53

*CRUTHIRDS, Elsie Day - educator, Hancock County - v. 521 (1974)
(No bound volume; tape and rough transcript available.) painting and poetry writing; teaching school in Pass Christian; USM during 1930s and '40s

*CRY, Robert - 1979 Pearl River Flood - v. 295-15 (1979)
(No bound volume; transcript available.) aid from relief agencies; community help; flood experience; no preparations made; repairing their home; trying to salvage property

*CRYSTAL SPRINGS (Copiah County), Mississippi
Cottingham, Mrs. T.L. - v. 520
Lewis, Arthur - v. 165
Ross, W.D. - v. 562
Wilson, Mrs. L.A. - v. 67

*CUBA
Gaudet, William George - v. 382
Powe, William A. - v. 377

*CULPEPPER, J. P. Jr. - Hattiesburg physician - v. 14 (1972)
Colmer, William; Culpepper, J.P. III; Forrest General Hospital; government's increasing role in medicine; Hattiesburg medical history; medicine, future trends in; medicine, recent advances in; Methodist Hospital, forming staff of; national organizations, membership in

*CULPEPPER, Mallard - Jackson resident - v. 522 (1972)
(No bound volume; tape available.) Clarion-Ledger staff (Hedermans); country music enthusiast; growing up in Jackson; Jimmie Rodgers Memorial; working for Coca-Cola

*CUMMINGS, Homer
discussed in: Clegg, Hugh - v. 99

*CUNNINGHAM, William Jefferson - Methodist minister - v. 242 (1981, 1982)
Emory University, study at; family background; Galloway Memorial United Methodist Church and racial tensions; Millsaps College, study at; Moral Majority and censorship; "The Negro Question" (Appendix A); civil rights and the Methodist church; tithing and contributions; University of Mississippi, study at

*CURTIS, Charles
discussed in: Clegg, Hugh - v. 99

*CURTIS, Perry - Natchez and Mound Bayou resident - v. 523 (1974)
(No bound volume; tapes available.) life history of Natchez and Mound Bayou in the turn of the century; tenant farming; cotton farming; race relations; preacher

*Cyclones
see: Natural Disasters

D

*DAHMER, Ellie J. - educator and civil rights activist - v. 281 (1974)
background, early career; fire-bombing of Dahmer home; Freedom Summer; race relations in Hattiesburg; teaching during segregation

*DAHMER, Vernon
Adickes, Sandra - v. 731
Branch, Raylawni - v. 682
Dahmer, Ellie - v. 281
Dukes, William - v. 40
Fairley, J.C. - v. 375
Hall, Stanton - v. 3
Hamilton, M.W. - v. 464
Maples, Darwin - v. 174
Sandifer, Iva E. - v. 633
Watkins, Hollis - v. 670
Wells, Buck - v. 694
see also: racial violence

*DAILY HERALD, Biloxi
Darby, Cooper - v. 158
Wilkes, Eugene - v. 588

*DAILY NEWS, Jackson, Mississippi
Dunn, Burris - v. 331
McDavid, O.C. v. 166
Walters, Carl v. 170
see also: Sullens, Fred

*DAIRY industry in Mississippi
Arnold, John R. - v. 114
Ball, Doyle - v. 360
Blocker, Jacob - v. 97
McDavid, O.C. - v. 166
Milner, J.K. - v. 159
Seal, Louis - v. 288
Stevens, Boswell - v. 9
see also: cattle industry; tenant system

*DAKIN, John - Mississippi farmer - v. 302 (1974)
family background; Great Depression; growing up in the Delta

*DANCING RABBIT CREEK, Treaty of
Whitten, Mary - v. 56
see also: Indians in Mississippi

*DANIELS, Motee - bootlegger - v. 390 (1974)
bootlegging and speakeasy management; Civilian Conservation Corps, work in; farming rented land; Faulkner, William, recollections of; growing up in rural Lafayette County

*DANTIN, Maurice
discussed in: Adam, Bidwell - v. 34; Hewitt, Purser - v. 10; Lewis, Nathaniel - v. 182; Ramsay, Claude - v. 215

*DARBY, Cooper J. - educator, chancery clerk in Harrison County - v. 158 (1976)
Adam, Bidwell; Barr, Dexter; Bilbo, Theodore G.; Bond, W.F.; chancery clerks; Clark, John; Colmer, William; contract kickbacks; county unit system, as government; family background; gasoline taxes; Gulf & Ship Island railroad; Gulf Coast; gasoline tax; Harrison County; Harrison County superintendent of education, work as; Harrison, Pat; Havens, Joe; Hewes, Gaston; Hewes, William G.; Ivy, H.M.; Johnson, Bob; legislature's role in improving education; lumber industry in Mississippi, early 1900s; lunacy laws; Mississippi Normal College in 1920s; Mize, Joe; Mize, Sid; Perkinston Junior College; Rollins, H.M.; Russell, Dan M.; Wilkes, Eugene