Oral history.; Judge Robin Alfred Midcalf was born November 13, 1961 and grew up in Harrison County. Judge Midcalf married a man who became an abusive husband and at eighteen she divorced, becoming a single parent. She worked to put herself...
A collection of interviews with African-Americans of the Mississippi Gulf Coast, circa twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, who knew Colonel John Robinson, an African-American pilot who was tapped by Ethiopian Emperor Haile Sellassie in the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Charlie Daniel. A cut-out of Richard Nixon's face appears in a wall, and a man looking through it says, " Hmmm...this must be one of those tax loopholes I've been hearing about."
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Charlie Daniel. Richard Nixon, dressed in a trench coat and hat, is reminiscent of cartoon character Dick Tracy. He points to a fat mouse and says, "I'm out to get you, you dirty rat." The...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Charlie Daniel. An elephant with a "7" for a head and a bandage on its rump growls at a donkey that has a "2" for a head. The donkey is also growling at the elephant. The cartoon caption reads,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Charlie Daniel. A man (Lyndon Johnson?) with long hair stalks away from the barber chair and expresses his dissatisfaction by shouting obscenities. The barber, with an innocent expression on...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on January 26, 1993 with Pete Johnson, nephew of Paul B. Johnson Jr., at his home in Madison, Mississippi. Pete Johnson was born on May 12, 1948 in Alexandria, Louisiana. He received his B.S. degree in business...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Charlie Daniel. The heads and upper bodies of Henry Kissinger and King Faisal of Saudi Arabia are shown facing each other. Kissinger says, "Now about foreign aid..." and King Faisal says, "How...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Charlie Daniel. Lyndon Johnson, dressed as a cowboy, stands in the corner of a room holding a dripping paint brush. A bucket of paint labeled "LBJ's fiscal policies" is nearby, and he has...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on January 21, 2006 with Natalie C. Brown. Miss Brown lived near the Tulane campus during Hurricane Katrina and describes her evacuation and return to the city.
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on February 7 and 21, 1992 with Mr. Thomas Knight Sr. at the University of Southern Mississippi. Knight was born on July 9, 1920 near Hattiesburg, Mississippi. In 1941, he began working at the Reliance...
Oral history.; Mr. Earl Napoleon Moore was born in Biloxi, Mississippi, on December 19, 1914. His father was a ship and bridge carpenter, and his mother was a homemaker. Mr. Moore graduated from Biloxi Colored High School. He was a boxer and a...
cartoon by Charlie Daniel; Constantly hit on the head by water drops, a man sits in a living room full of water. His newspaper reads, "Cost of Living Up .6 of 1% Last Mo." and this scene is called "American Water Torture."
From Mrs. W's 1901 Diary. Mrs. W.'s diary paints a vivid portrait of the daily life of a middle class homemaker in 1901, and constitutes a daily account of the author's activities from April 1 - August 7, 1901.Very little biographical or historical...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; The report gives details about the economic shut out of poor African Americans that occurred during the 1960s due to greater plantation mechanization. The report includes transcribed meetings...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on June 18, 1992 and March 9, 1993 with Mr. C.B. "Buddie" Newman at his home in Valley Park, Mississippi. Newman was born on May 8, 1921 in Valley Park, Mississippi. In 1942, he left his job with the Southern...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. Armed soldiers guard the entrance to the site of the 1968 Democratic Convention, which is surrounded by chain link fence topped by barbed wire. The gate in the fence is labeled,...
A collection of ten interviews with participants in the Mississippi civil rights movement. The people interviewed discuss how they came to participate in the civil rights movement, their various activities, including voter registration, Freedom...
Oral history.; Charles C. Jacobs Jr. was born in Greenville, Mississippi, on January 13, 1921. Mr. Jacobs attended the University of Mississippi and returned to its law school after serving as a Marine during World War II. During his career, he was...
