Oral history.; Interview conducted on November 14, 1995 with Dr. Barry Clemson (born 1941). He attributes his interest in civil rights work in part to his membership in the Church of the Brethren, one of the "key civil rights churches." Clemson was...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on February 22, 2007 with Barry McIlwain, a business owner in Pascagoula, MS, who describes losing and rebuilding his home as well as the local, state, and federal relief efforts after Hurricane Katrina.
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 Vic Runtz. A massive boulder that resembles former President Dwight D. Eisenhower's face and head sits atop a cliff that overlooks a mountain road. The boulder is labeled "Ike's reluctance." A...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Gene Basset. Barry Goldwater, Nelson Rockefeller, and Richard Nixon stand behind the doors of a saloon, labeled, "For men only." Above the doorway is the sign, "Presidential primaries."...
Oral history.; Barry Davis Jim, Sr., was born in Philadelphia Indian Hospital and grew up on the Pearl River Indian Reservation. He attended Pearl River Elementary Day School, which became Choctaw Central High School. Mr. Jim, a promising athlete,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. A distressed-looking elephant labeled "Moderates," dressed in a tuxedo, looks into a top hat labeled "Hope for a miracle." Runtz's signature cat looks on, also looking distressed.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. A young man walks along a sidewalk holding a piece of paper labeled "Voting at eighteen." Two hands reach down and pat him on the head. The sleeve of one hand is labeled "Goldwater,"...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eddie Germano. A snow skier labeled "Ye voter" stands before a sign that reads, "N.H. primary" and looks out with uncertainty at the number of ski slopes before him. Each is labeled with a...
cartoon by Eddie Germano; Barry Goldwater plays a saxophone labeled,"party harmony." The New England GOP dumps "sand" into the sax. At the top of the cartoon, a box reads,"ed. note...Barry G. likes to play a hot jazz sax, for relaxation."
cartoon by Ed Valtman; A man tiptoes in from what appears to have been quite a party at the Republican National Convention. He wears a "Goldwater" hat, a "Barry" pin, and he holds a "Barry for President" sign. At his door, a woman labeled "GOP...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on September 14, 1977 with Mr. Semmes Luckett, attorney at law, at his office in Clarksdale, Mississippi. Luckett was born on October 28, 1905 in Yazoo City, Mississippi. He entered the University of Mississippi...
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...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Report on school desegregation in the South produced by SNCC and authored by Marion Barry and Betty Gorman. Begins with passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and discusses the inadequacy of...
Photograph of students, Barry Hannah and Chad Watson, playing guitars and singing in UAC's Music at Lunch during the fall semester in the Union Plaza. Also found in the 1997 Southerner yearbook on page 28.
cartoon by Eddie Germano; Barry Goldwater is shown with a body-builder's physique and pushing down two concrete columns labeled "Political" and "Polls."
A collection of eight interviews with participants in the Mississippi civil rights movement. The people interviewed discuss how they came to participate in the civil rights movement, their various activities, including voter registration, Freedom...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on November 12, 1981 and February 6, 1982 with Judge J. P. Coleman. Coleman was born on December 9, 1914 in Fentress, Mississippi. After attending the University of Mississippi, he was invited to work in...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on November 14, 2005. Mr. Jones describes his struggle to survive as Hurricane Katrina struck Gulfport, Mississippi.
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...
