Oral history.; An interview conducted on October 27, 2006 with Hunter Dunaway in which he discusses his experiences during and after Hurricane Katrina.
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.; 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...
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...
Oral history.; Mr. Augustus (Gus) Ashby Sr. was born in 1924, in Washington, D.C. and moved to Tupelo where he became active in the local church. After high school, he attended college in Holly Springs and Okolona, Mississippi. He was a member of...
Oral history.; Mrs. Sarah Harris Ruffin was born on April 15, 1914. Her parents came to Hattiesburg in the early 1900s. When young, Mrs. Ruffin did domestic and warehouse work. In 1949, she began working at the Brooklyn Jewish Hospital as a nurse's...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on July 22, 1981 with Mr. Charlie Parker at his home in Laurel, Mississippi. Parker was born in the early 1890s in Enterprise, Mississippi. After his family moved to Laurel around the turn of the century, Parker...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on July 2, 1974 with Mrs. Ellie J. Dahmer at her home in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Dahmer was born in Jasper County, Mississippi in 1925. After completing high school at Jasper County Training School she...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man stands in a pile of hurricane debris labeled, "Gulf Coast." He is looking up at an elderly man at the top of a spinning cloud. The man is holding a top hat in the style of...
From the AAEC Editorial Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A snail is trying to move along a path between two mounds of lumber debris left by Hurricane Camille. Sweat drops show the snail to be working hard to move, and cobwebs are impeding...
From the Goodyear Yellow Pine Company Photographs. Photograph of the lumber shed at the Rosa Lumber Company, later the Goodyear Pine Company of Picayune, Mississippi. This inside view shows stacks of lumber. The photograph was taken by John N....
From the Goodyear Yellow Pine Company Photographs. Photograph of the lumber yard at the Goodyear Yellow Pine Company of Picayune, Mississippi. Ground level view looking down an aisle between two rows of lumber stacked to air dry. A work crew is...
From the Ingram-Day Lumber Company Photographs Collection. Photograph of a child standing in a dense grove of long leaf pine trees. The original caption reads, "Long Leaf at Yarbo, Alabama".
From the Ingram-Day Lumber Company Photographs Collection. Photograph of a grove of red and white oak trees. The original caption reads, "A Red Oak and A White Oak at Woodbluff, Alabama."
From the Ingram-Day Lumber Company Photographs Collection. Photograph of a little girl standing next to a huge yellow pine tree. The original caption reads, "A 24" x 24" x 70' Dense Heart Long Leaf Yellow Pine Stick in the Tree".
From the Ingram-Day Lumber Company Photographs Collection. Photograph of a logger standing next to a long leaf pine log approximately four feet in diameter. Other logs in the photo are somewhat smaller. The original caption reads, "A Ramp of...
From the Ingram-Day Lumber Company Photographs Collection. Photograph of a lush forest of white oak trees. The original caption reads, "White Oak Trees at Woodbluff, Alabama."
From the Ingram-Day Lumber Company Photographs Collection. Photograph of a man looking upward at a tall white oak tree in a stand of hardwoods. The original caption reads, "White Oak at Woodbluff, Alabama."
From the Ingram-Day Lumber Company Photographs Collection. Photograph of a man standing in a grove of hickory trees that has obviously been thinned by logging operations. The original caption reads, "Some Hickory Trees at Woodbluff, Alabama."
From the Ingram-Day Lumber Company Photographs Collection. Photograph of a man standing in a stand of mixed oak trees, dwarfed by their size. The original caption reads, "Mixed Oak a Woodbluff Alabama".
