A collection of eight 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...
From the AAEC Editorial Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. "Tip" O'Neill, dressed as a baseball player and labeled "Demos," stands on the pitcher's mound in an otherwise empty field. He watches as a baseball sails over his head toward the back...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eddie Germano. In the top half of the cartoon, President Richard Nixon is shown at his desk surrounded by piles of papers and people demanding his attention with cries of "Mr. President!" Nixon...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on February 21, 2007 with Aimee Gautier-Dugger, who describes her experience waiting out the storm in Gautier, the city her ancestors founded, and the struggle to regroup after the storm.
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...
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...
Oral history.; Interviews conducted on October 3, 1994 and October 10, 1994 with Mrs. Jane Menefee Schutt (born 1913). Mrs. Schutt was appointed to the Mississippi Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and served four years, the...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 26, 1977 with William Joel Blass (born 1917). As a lawyer in 1952, he successfully prosecuted the Boyce Holleman case by proving that voter fraud had kept Holleman from winning. Beginning in 1953, he...
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) taken at a parade for the 8th Victory War Loan drive for World War II.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) taken at a parade for the 8th Victory War Loan drive for World War II.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) taken at a parade for the 8th Victory War Loan drive for World War II.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) taken at a parade for the 8th Victory War Loan drive for World War II.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) taken at a parade for the 8th Victory War Loan drive for World War II.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) taken at a parade for the 8th Victory War Loan drive for World War II.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) taken at a parade for the 8th Victory War Loan drive for World War II.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) taken at a parade for the 8th Victory War Loan drive for World War II.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) taken at a parade for the 8th Victory War Loan drive for World War II.
Photograph of Clarence Weatherspoon and Darron Jenkins making the basket that led to victory over Tulane University in a basketball game. Basketball fans are in the background. Featured in the 1991 Southerner on page 135.
