Oral history.; Mrs. Frances Ryals Terry was born July 30, 1923, in Greenville, Mississippi. She was a child during the Depression and during the flood of 1927. Mrs. Terry grew up near Hollandale, Mississippi. She graduated from Delta State...
Oral history.; Orene Ellis Farese was born May 20, 1916, in Choctaw County, Mississippi. She attended a local public schools, Holmes Junior College, and Blue Mountain College. She began her professional career as a high school English teacher. When...
Transcribed copy of a document detailing the curriculum of Freedom Schools. Begins with a Table of Contents showing the major curriculum divisions: academic, citizenship, and recreational and artistic. Also gives details of activities and materials...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on July 25, 2006 with Naseer and Zaheer Ahmad. Zaheer had been a taxi operator in New Orleans for twenty-five years when Katrina forced his family to Virginia. Zaheer recalls his life in New Orleans and...
Oral history.; An interview on February 21, 2007 conducted with John Lindgren, an engineer at Ingalls Shipbuilding Co., who describes his experiences during Hurricane Katrina in Pascagoula, MS, including rebuilding his home.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on October 6, 2006 with Fred Dunaway and Caroline Dunaway. Residents of Back Bay, Biloxi, Mr. & Mrs. Dunaway discuss their experiences during and after Hurricane Katrina.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on June 25, 2007 with Lieutenant General John C. ""Clark"" Griffith. General Griffith describes his experiences during and after Hurricane Katrina, as well as his involvement in commissions planning for 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...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Alexsey Kosygin is flying a plane shaped like a man's shoe and labeled, "Flying trip to N.Y.?" Below him is the United Nations building, labeled, "U.N. Middle East 'Peace'...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Hy Rosen. The United Nations (depicted as a turtle with the head of Secretary General U Thant) is on a runway marked "Long record of inaction on hijacking & political piracy." An angry man sits...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Ed Valtman. Leaders from Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Germany, France, and Great Britain stand on the tarmac of an airfield, alongside a strip of carpet that reads "Welcome Dick." The...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A witch (Uncle Sam?) flies through the sky on a broom above houses, a huge moon in the background. A plane flies by in the opposite direction, and a man leans out the window...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Knudsen. Uncle Sam and two young boys are looking at a poster attached to the wall of a brick building. The poster shows a fighter jet and has the words, "New! 1968 supersonic Mirage jet...
