Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on April 3, 1995 and June 8, 1995 with Constance Baker (born 1912). Mrs. Baker has spent her life working for civil rights and in teaching. She was involved in the Head Start program from its inception and...
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...
Materials in this collection were donated by William M. Colmer: First accession-1970. Additional information online at: http://www.lib.usm.edu/legacy/archives/m024.htm
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Ed Valtman. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski are smiling waiters standing behind President Jimmy Carter and Senate Minority Leader Howard Baker....
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. A boy lies on his stomach in front of a television in a living room watching the Senate Rules and Administration Committee hearing of the Bobby Baker case. On the television screen,...
Oral history.; Mr. James Madison Johnson was born on March 17, 1955, in Laurel, Mississippi. During his childhood, he lived in George County, Lucedale, Leaf, and McLain, Mississippi. Mr. Johnson attended college at Mississippi Valley State,...
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 August 17, 1977 with Mrs. Betty Carter at her home in Greenville, Mississippi. Carter was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. She attended Newcomb College where she met her husband, Hodding Carter. Together they...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Merle Cunnington. A donkey winks as he stands over a grave marked with a headstone that reads "Bobby Baker case." The donkey is wearing a blanket divided into three vertical sections. The first...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Ed Valtman. An ostrich labeled "Baker investigation" stands with its head in the sand under a hot sun. An elephant dressed in safari clothing and pith helmet is pulling a tail feather from the...
cartoon by Ed Valtman; A man labeled "Baker" is holding a hat for donations. The hat is labeled "For Needy Senators," and there is a hole in the bottom of it. A hand is dropping $10,000 into the hat while Baker is catching the money that is...
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.; Two interviews conducted on April 14, 1972 and January 25, 1973 with Mississippi civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977). Hamer was a leading figure in the MFDP. She is best known for her 1964 national television...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on July 24, 1999 with Joseph Schwartz (born 1938). Schwartz was active in Friends of SNCC at Berkeley and went South in the autumn of 1964. He worked in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, from September 1964 to March 1965.
Oral history.; Three interviews conducted on October 23, 29, and 30, 1996 with Hollis Watkins (born 1941), the twelfth child of sharecroppers. Mr. Watkins was jailed for participating in the Woolsworth's lunch counter sit-in in McComb and a...
Oral history.; Mr. Roberts Wilson Jr. was born July 6, 1941, in Rosedale, Mississippi. After attending both Vanderbilt University and the University of Mississippi, he went to Washington. D.C., during the mid 1960s where he worked in the office of...
From the Adickes (Sandra E.) Papers. Copy of a typewritten letter from Sandra Adickes to Ella Baker, dated April 2, 1971. Adickes discusses the outcome of a lawsuit she filed against S.H. Kress and Company, and her desire to give her portion of the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. New Orleans Mayor Ernest Morial is dressed as a baker, and he is decorating a large cake. He is writing "Jimmy Fitz for Gov." A second man (James Fitzsimmons) looks through the...
cartoon by Eddie Germano; A bedroom is shown, and the bedspread is labeled "5th Amendment." A man hides under the bed, and he is identified as "Bobby Baker."
Oral history.; An interview conducted on July 7, 2006 with George Dale (born 1940). Former Commissioner of Insurance for the State of Mississippi, Mr. Dale now serves as Public Policy Advisor for the law offices of Baker, Donelson. Dale discusses...
