Oral history.; An interview conducted on August 30, 1978 with Thomas Jefferson Tubb (born 1899). Mr. Tubb served as chairman of the Clay County Executive Committee for 47 years from 1928 to 1975 and during the Dixiecrat movement from 1950 to 1956....
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by John Stampone. Lyndon Johnson is shown dressed as a colonial Minuteman. Standing on a statue base, he points a long rifle at a man labeled "Fed. [Federal] employee." Thirteen stars surround the...
Oral history.; Mr. Pascal Nevin Sledge was born February 6, 1921, in the Alva Community east of Duck Hill, Mississippi. He attended Cleveland High School, Culver Military Academy, Delta State University, and General Motors' Chevrolet Dealer...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man labeled "Jeff Voter" poses as "The Thinker" and is half-submerged in water. A fish swims nearby, and a sign on the wall reads, "May 17 drainage bond issue."
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Two men are on a girder that is suspended from above by a wire and large hook. The girder is labeled, "State building programs" and is not flat but tilted up on one end. The man...
Oral history.; Mr. Alton G. Bankston was born outside of Laurel, Mississippi on June 5, 1941. Mr. Bankston majored in political science and history at Jones County Junior College and attended the University of Southern Mississippi. In 1963 he...
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.; Interview conducted on November 1, 1977 with R.B. Layton. Mr. Layton was involved in the Jackson Public Schools as a teacher, a principal, and a curriculum director from the late 1930s to the middle 1970s. Layton was director of...
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.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on November 1, 1995 with Joe Martin (born 1943). Mr. Martin became inspired by Medgar Evers after hearing him in elementary school. Martin and his Burgland High football friends formed an NAACP youth group. Mr....
Oral history.; Interview conducted on May 8, 1971 with the Honorable Ross Robert Barnett in Jackson, Mississippi. Barnett was born on January 22, 1898 in Leake County, Mississippi. He graduated with his B.A. from Mississippi College in 1924. In...
An Act: To reduce the currency and to authorize a new issue of notes and bonds. Enacted by the Congress of the Confederate States of America on 17 February 1864.
