From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Ed Valtman. Alabama Governor George Wallace drives an old crank-start car labeled "Governorship" in front of a mansion. A small Confederate flag flies on the hood of the car, and a dog races...
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 Eddie Germano. George Wallace is sitting in a chair with his feet propped up on a stool and his hands behind his head. Lurleen Wallace enters the room carrying a tray with coffee and food....
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...
Photograph of University of Alabama head football coach Paul W. "Bear" Bryant and entourage leaving Bryant-Denny Stadium at the University of Alabama campus following a football game against the University of Southern Mississippi. The final score...
From the Map Collection. Map of the Mississippi territory in 1814 by Francis Shallus. Mississippi territory at that time included what is now Alabama. Map is numbered 23 in top margin. Longitude given in degrees west from London and Philadelphia.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Former Alabama governor George Wallace is wearing an apron and carrying a feather duster. He answers the phone at the governor's desk, with "Gov. Lurleen Wallace" on the name...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eddie Germano. Alabama Governor George Wallace is shown as a screaming baby, dressed in a diaper and head cap. He is shaking a rattle with one hand and holding a bottle in the other. Seven...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on October 7, 1976 with Dr. W. B. Thompson at his office at Mississippi College in Clinton, Mississippi. Thompson was born on November 5, 1920 in Columbus, Mississippi. After returning from service in World War...
One patent for 160 acres of land in Washington County, Alabama. Title to the land, purchased at Fort St. Stephens, Alabama, belonged to Bookajah Smith, assignee of James P. Hainsworth. The land sale was handled in the St. Stephens Land Office at...
From the Map Collection. Map of Mississippi and Alabama showing railroads and canals in 1835. Overprinted or marked with colored lines to show county boundaries. Longitude given in degrees west from Washington and Greenwich, England.
From the Map Collection. A color map showing the rivers, cities, and counties of parts of Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida. On bottom right "Published under the superintendence of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful...
Photograph of Leonard Williams catching the pass that set up the winning touchdown for USM in the 1953 football game against the University of Alabama. Photograph also found in the 1954 Southerner yearbook on page 262; and in the September 25,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Ed Valtman. A smiling, blond woman dressed in a 19th century dress and hat is labeled, "South." She holds a large Valentine card with a picture of Richard Nixon, labeled, "Be my...
Oral history.; Mr. King T. Evans was born on March 19, 1913 near Uniontown, Alabama, in Perry County. In 1925, Mr. Evans moved to Mississippi with his parents. His father was a mechanic and farmer. For a brief period, Mr. Evans attended the...
Oral history.; Mr. David M. "Boo" Ferriss was born December 5, 1921, in Shaw, Mississippi. Mr. Ferriss graduated from Mississippi State University and served in the Army Air Corps in World War II. Spending forty-four years as a player and coach in...
Oral history.; Dorothea Allsup was born on February 4, 1916. Her family resided in Nebraska, but they moved to Epes, Alabama and then Macon, Mississippi, when she was seventeen. While Mrs. Allsup attended high school in Macon she met her future...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on November 17, 1995 with Mr. Roger Barnhill. He was born on November 12, 1940 in Lincoln, Nebraska. Barnhill was recruited into the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in his senior year at...
