Oral history.; An interview conducted on June 21-22, 2007 with Carter Bise, Chancery Court Judge on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Judge Bise describes his experience in Gulfport during and after Hurricane Katrina.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on August 2, 2007 and October 9, 2007 with Charles Benvenutti, a CPA in Bay St. Louis, MS. He describes his experience during and after Hurricane Katrina.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on May 17, 2006 with Ronald J. Baker, a commercial fisherman in Biloxi, MS. Mr. Baker describes the hurricane's impact on his neighborhood, his personal business, and the shrimping industry in general.
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on August 20, 1997 and August 28, 1997 with Peter H. Stewart (born 1934). He began teaching school in Edwards, Mississippi, in the fall of 1961. In August 1969, he worked for Friends of Children, a Head Start...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on June 9, 1977 with the Honorable Herman B. DeCell in his office in Yazoo City, Mississippi. DeCell enrolled at the University of Mississippi but with the start of World War II, he was called to service. After...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on October 22, 1996 with Mrs. Josephine Clemons Bell (born 1909). Her teaching career in elementary education in the public school of Natchez-Adams County spans twenty-nine and a half years. After retiring in...
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 October 21, 1999 with Dr. Sandra Adickes (born 1933). In 1963, Dr. Adickes taught African-Americans in freedom school efforts in Prince Edward County, Virginia. In 1964, she was recruited to teach in...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on October 13, 1993 with Mr. Kenneth O. Williams at the new state capitol building in Jackson, Mississippi. Williams was born on January 18, 1924 in Clarksdale, Mississippi. He received a BA in political science...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on August 6, 1981 with Dr. W. J. Cunningham at his home in Memphis, Tennessee. William Jefferson Cunningham was born on December 23, 1905 in Iuka, Mississippi. In 1929, he graduated from the University of...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on February 7 and 21, 1992 with Mr. Thomas Knight Sr. at the University of Southern Mississippi. Knight was born on July 9, 1920 near Hattiesburg, Mississippi. In 1941, he began working at the Reliance...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Bob Beckett. An elephant wearing a straw hat labeled "Smith" and a donkey labeled "Yates" stand arm-in-arm (front legs). The donkey's other arm is on the shoulder of a man labeled "Burlington...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Bob Taylor. President Jimmy Carter lifts his shirt to reveal a scar labeled "LBJ remarks" across his abdomen.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Bob Taylor. President Jimmy Carter wrestles with a sticky blob of tar drawn to resemble a reclining human form wearing an Arab-style head covering. Carter uses a large pair of scissors labeled...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Ed Valtman. President Jimmy Carter is shown lying in bed thinking (or worrying) about Senator Edward Kennedy dumping a freezer labeled "Wage and price freeze" on him.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Ed Valtman. Senator Edward Kennedy, President Jimmy Carter, and Governor (Edmund) Jerry Brown stand on an athletic winner's platform showing the results of the Maine presidential primary. All...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher; A baseball player is standing by a plate that reads, "No.2 Port in Trouble,"is swinging a giant figure "1", which reads, "N.O.'s No.1 Problem." The stadium banner reads,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher; A chef wearing a helmet is serving up a bowl of Pigskin Supreme as the the soup of the day in a bowl marked, "Superbowl XV."
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher; A diplomat looks into a box labeled, "Peace in Lebanon" as he holds in his hand a round piece of wood labeled, "Multi-sided factions."
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher; A drug pusher in a car labeled, "Drug traffic," is about to nudge a young child labeled "Our youth" over a cliff. A long arm, labeled, "Beefing up of state's narcotic division,"...
