Oral history.; An interview conducted on February 22, 2007 with Barry McIlwain, a business owner in Pascagoula, MS, who describes losing and rebuilding his home as well as the local, state, and federal relief efforts after Hurricane Katrina.
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.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on June 18, 1980 with Charles Hudson Griffin (born 1926). Griffin served in the office of U. S. Congressman John Bell Williams until 1968 when he campaigned for the position himself. He served three terms...
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...
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 September 17, 1980 with the Honorable Tony Byrne, former mayor of Natchez, Mississippi at his office in the Natchez City Hall. Byrne was born on May 18, 1936 in Natchez, Mississippi. He attended Mississippi...
Brochure for the rose garden. The All-American Public Rose Garden is located on the front of the University of Southern Mississippi campus. It is sponsored by the Hattiesburg Area Rose Society.
cartoon by Eugene Payne; A stage is filled with approximately thirty candidates for office. They wait to begin a session to "Meet the Candidates." There are rows of seats in the audience, but there is only one person there to listen.
cartoon by Eugene Payne; The "Watergate" semi-truck sits on the side of the road, out of gas. "Sam Ervin" runs toward a passing "School Bus" and in the process he abandons "Watergate."
cartoon by Eugene Payne; Two castaways float on a raft in the ocean. After seeing bottles, cans and other trash in the waves, one of the bearded men on the raft concludes, "We Must Be Nearing Land."
cartoon by Jim Ivey; A couple visits Greece, and they look upon some columns from Ancient Greece. The man holds a "Greek Guide Book," but after seeing the columns he says, "I See Militant Students Have Been Here."
cartoon by Ted Martin; A doctor hands a bottle to a man sitting in a chair, and he says, "You'll be Ok Rocky. Just take a shot of this sedative and relax, forget about the White House for today. Lie down but don't cover your ears - let the money...
