Oral history.; An interview conducted on February 22, 2007 with Anne Petty, a retired schoolteacher, who describes hearing about Hurricane Katrina from her hospital bed in Washington and learning of its damage to her home in Pascagoula.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on February 20, 2008 with Ellis Cuevas, who describes life in the Waveland, MS, area before 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.; On September 13, 1924, Mr. Martin Thomas King, Jr., was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi. As a child, Mr. King witnessed the flood of 1927. Mr. King attended public school in Vicksburg. From 1942 to 1946, Mr. King served in the Navy in...
Oral history.; Ms. Frances Burney was born May 29, 1913, in Vancleave, Mississippi. When she was eighteen, she married and moved to Biloxi, Mississippi. Until 1951, she stayed home rearing her four children; at that time, her husband became ill,...
Oral history.; Mr. Jeremiah O'Keefe was born in Ocean Springs, Mississippi, on July 12, 1923. Mr. O'Keefe attended Sacred Heart Academy for high school. He entered the U.S. Navy and received his wings in the U.S. Marine Corps in May, 1943. Having...
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 August 21, 1972 with the Honorable Russell C. Davis in his office in Jackson, Mississippi. He was born in Rockville, Maryland. After completing two years at the University of Maryland, Davis took employment...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on January 23, 1973 with Mr. William Dukes in his office in Gulfport, Mississippi. Dukes was born in the Sullivans' Hollow area near Raleigh, in Smith County, Mississippi on January 15, 1927. After his discharge...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on June 26, 1979 with Mr. William J. Simmons at his office in Jackson, Mississippi. Simmons was born in 1916 in Utica, Mississippi. He attended Millsaps College and Mississippi College, graduating from the...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on November 6, 1979 with Dr. Arthur Lewis, emeritus professor of mathematics, emeritus professor of physics and astronomy, and emeritus Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Mississippi. Lewis...
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. Alvin L. Fielder Sr. was born December 7, 1900 in Newton County, Mississippi. Mr. Fielder moved to Meehan Junction, Mississippi in 1913 and remained there until 1918, when he moved to Meridian. In 1918 he was a lumberyard saw...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Ed Valtman. Two men with a tape measure find the length of a long line of cars waiting for gasoline. One of the men tells President Jimmy Carter, "The lines are short today--it means we're over...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A car labeled, "Careful!...Drivers" is at the bottom of the cartoon, with a person behind the wheel. The person is leaning forward to look up through the windsheld at three very...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man driving a car labeled, "Congress" is driving along an unprotected road high on the side of a cliff. A sign pointing to the road ahead reads, "Raise taxes," but it is...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man in colonial costume is driving a car directly behind a large truck. The trailer has a map of the United States on the side along with the words, "Federal interstate...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man labeled "La. taxpayer" stands in his living room, his head turning back and forth to items on the table indoors and his car outdoors. Indoors on the table are a liquor...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man labeled "Legislature" sits in a broken down car labeled, "The budget." The man is holding a paper labeled, "Early adjournment timetable." The car is shaking and is...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A police officer kneels next to a junked car that is set up on blocks. The car has a hole in the windwhield, the hood is up, and a "Police notice" is attached to the front...
