Oral history.; Interview conducted on December 18, 1997 with Reuben Anderson. He was the first African-American to graduate from Ole Miss Law School. His professional experience includes the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., 1967-75;...
cartoon by John Stampone; Four men wearing cowboy attire and white hats stand at a bar. The frame of the mirror behind the bar is labeled "NATO Unity Bar" French President Charles DeGaulle is wearing cowboy attire and a black hat, and is walking...
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 28, 1993 with Judge Michael L. Carr (born 1920). He moved to Mississippi when he received an appointment to serve as law clerk to Edwin R. Holmes, U.S. circuit judge for the Fifth Circuit Court of...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on May 19, 2008 with David Baria, a resident of Bay St. Louis during Hurricane Katrina. He describes his experience before, during, and after the storm.
Oral history.; Judge John H. Whitfield was born in Gulfport, Mississippi, on July 4, 1962. Prior to integration of the schools, Judge Whitfield attended Nichols Perkins Elementary School in Biloxi until 1973. When Mississippi public schools in...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 5, 1998 with Judge Fred L. Banks, Jr. (born 1942). In the late 1960s, Judge Banks began his law career by serving for the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund. He was elected three times to the House of...
cartoon by Bob Beckett; A bartender rolls a pair of dice onto a bar in front of a teen. The bartender has a skull for a head. The dice are labeled "Teen drinking" and "Teen driving." A placard above the bar states,"Welcome 18-yr. olds." The...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A small George Bush pulls at the coat of an elephant dressed in a suit standing at a bar. On the bar are bottles, one labeled, "Old Reagan." An area behind the bar is labeled,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man sits at a bar. He has a cigarette in his hand. On the bar are a pack of cigarettes, an empty shot glass with spilled liquor, and a bottle. Ronald Reagan and David Stockman...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on June 18, 2007 with Margaret Alfonso, the Senior Chancery Court Judge for Hancock, Harrison, and Stone counties. She discusses her experience with Hurricane Katrina on the Gulf Coast.
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...
From the Hardy (William H. and Hattie L.) Papers; Mississippi Bar Association photograph (reprint) of Captain William H. Hardy. Print provided by and in possession of Honorable Eugene C. Tullos of Raleigh, Mississippi.
Running summary of various incidents that occurred during the Mississippi Freedom Project, Summer 1964. Organized chronologically, each entry gives the city and the incident. Includes instances of harassment, hostility, and violence against civil...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Edwin Meese wears track and field clothing and stands in front of a high jump that has been placed in front of a door labeled "Attorney general." The top bar of the high jump is...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. The backdrop is a graph with gridlines and two bars rising from the X axis labeled "Debt ceiling" and "New debt ceiling needs." The second bar is much taller than the first....
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man dressed in colonial clothing labeled, "N.O." leans on the bar at the Blue Dollar Saloon, a drinking establishment. A large bottle labeled "Ol' fiscal crisis" stands on the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by John Knudsen. A drunken man with a donkey's head is labeled "Demo's." He is standing at a bar with a sloshing beverage in one hand and a bottle labeled "Old Watergate" in the other. The...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on August 31, 2009 with David Elliott. A newscaster at WLOX-TV, Mr. Elliott describes his experiences during and after Hurricane Katrina.
