Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on June 12, 2007 and February 20, 2008 with Robert Gavagnie. A descendent of some of the first settlers on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, Mr. Gavagnie discusses his experiences as Chief of the Bay St. Louis...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on May 14, 2008 with Robert E. Bass, Jr. (born 1955). Mr. Bass earned degrees from Mississippi State University and the University of Mississippi Law School. He has served in many civic capacities, including...
A collection of ten 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.; Obie Clark was born October 31, 1932, near DeKalb, Mississippi. He earned a degree from Mississippi Industrial College and did additional college work at the University of Minnesota. For many years he taught school in Meridian,...
Rough draft of an article by Terri Shaw submitted to The Antiochian, the alumni publication of Antioch College. It recounts Shaw's experiences as a Freedom Summer volunteer in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, in 1964. Shaw discusses the training session...
cartoon Bob Beckett; A man is stacking logs onto a woodpile that sits beneath a window of his house. One of the logs is labeled "Possible fuel shortage" He tells his neighbor, who leans over the fence between their two houses,"I know I don't have...
cartoon by Allen Johnson; A man labeled "U.S. Taxpayer" sweats and hunches beneath the extraordinary weight of two pigs that he carries on his back. The first and larger of the two pigs is labeled "Federal tax" The second and smaller of the two...
cartoon by Allen Johnson; An elderly man and woman walk beneath a small unbrella labeled "10% increase" that barely offers them any protection from the impending rain. A label attached to the umbrella reads "Social security benefits" The man and...
cartoon by Ed Valtman; On a rainy street, beneath a street light, a tall, stodgy man carries a brief case labeled "Congressman" He offers to share his umbrella with a scantily clad woman who smokes a cigarette and stands beneath the street light. ...
cartoon by Jack Jurden; A jar with a lid labeled "auto industry" and a cauldron labeled "insurance companies" are facing off. The jar wears and angry expression on its face and is releasing steam from beneath its lid and waving a fist at the...
cartoon by Jack Jurden; A man holds up the open frame of an umbrella without a cover. The frame is labeled "Controls. The man stands beneath a thick, dirty cloud labeled "Pollution".
cartoon by Jim Orton; A vehicle labeled "Computerized Car Pool" drives along a freeway lane. The freeway lane merges beneath an overpass with another section of freeway that is severely congested with traffic. The silhouette of a man can be seen...
cartoon by John Knudsen; The huge boots of a giant soldier stand amidst a now partially ruined Czechoslovakian town. The boots are labeled "Russian occupation," and flames labeled "Czech indignation" flare up from beneath the soles of the boots.
cartoon by John Knudsen; Two human figures are partially concealed beneath the fitted, full-body covering that would normally be placed underneath a knight's saddle. The figure in the rear is giant-sized in comparison to the figure in the front. ...
cartoon by John Riedell; A wreath of flowers labeled "Holt" are floating on the ocean waves. Four stars form the shape of a cross in the night sky overhead.
Oral history.; Interview conducted on May 17, 1972 with Associate Justice Thomas Pickens Brady, of the Supreme Court of Mississippi in his chambers in Jackson, Mississippi. This is the second part of an interview conducted on March 4, 1972 with...
Oral history.; Four interviews conducted on June 11, September 26, October 10, and November 21, 1985 with Ms. Ruby Magee in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Magee was born on August 12, 1940 in Tylertown, Mississippi. In 1962, she received a BA in...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by David Simpson. In the upper right background of the cartoon, two Arab men stand in front of palm trees and watch Henry Kissinger running in the desert. Kissinger is naked, and he carries a...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Ed Valtman. Beneath a large sign with the words "Madison Square Garden...Democratic Convention," Jimmy Carter walks on a wide carpet which is being unrolled by four men (Edward Kennedy, Morris...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Hy Rosen. Beneath the ruins of a university campus, a quotation of H.G. Wells reads: "Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe." One column of a ruined...
