From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Louisiana Governor Dave Treen and two other men are running toward the double doors in a large building. Above the doors is a large sign that reads, "Big Charity emergency...
From the Ben-Ami (Rabbi David Z.) Papers. The pamphlet explains that the Committee of Concern is an interracial, interfaith group with the goal of raising and managing funds and equipment to rebuild burned churches in the Hattiesburg area. A...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A doctor labeled "Big Charity" stands in a hospital corridor. Litter is on the floor, and the wall behind him is cracked. Medical equipment is nearby and in an adjacent room....
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Louisiana governor Dave Treen looks around a corner in the hallway of Charity Hospital. A sign with "Big Charity...Visiting hours" is on the wall above him. Litter is on the...
From the AAEC Editorial Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. On the left side, a man is a patient in a hospital bed that looks too small for his size, and he is surrounded by medical equipment. He is looking up and appears to be in distress. At...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Charles de Gaulle is sitting at a desk on top of the globe. On the desk is a crystal ball labeled, "World's problems," and de Gaulle's hands are stretched out toward it. Behind...
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 AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A large man is carried on a stretcher from an ambulance to “Baton Rouge emergency entrance” of a hospital by three ambulance attendants. One of the attendants holds an IV...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher; Charity Hospital is in a hospital bed while a group of doctors stand around scratch their chins. The "doctors" are McKeithen, the hospital board, the legislative budget...
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...
Caption: Paul's involvement with campus life includes fun moments, like "getting arrested" during a Jail Bail for charity. No word on who put up the money to spring him. Photograph featured in the USM Alumni News, vol. 46, no. 2 (Fall 1993) on page...
From the Ben-Ami (Rabbi David Z.) Papers. This letter from W.G. Sims to Drew Pearson explains how turkeys donated by the "Christmas for Mississippi" project were distributed to needy families in the Hattiesburg area on Christmas Eve 1964.
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...
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.; Interview conducted on September 20, 1979 with Dr. Dewey Lane at the Robinson Lane Surgical Clinic in Pascagoula, Mississippi. Lane was born on September 27, 1934 in Starkville, Mississippi. He attended Vanderbilt University from...
Oral history.; Dr. Forest Kent Wyatt was born on May 27, 1934, in Berea, Kentucky. He graduated from Delta State College (now Delta State University) with a double degree in mathematics and health, physical education, and recreation. He then began...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on 1995 November 21 with Dr. Peter Orris (born 1945). Dr. Orris participated in his first civil rights demonstration when he was only eleven. In 1964, he was recruited to participate in the Summer Project in...
Oral history.; Dr. S. Jay McDuffie was born in Nettleton, Mississippi, and grew up in Tupelo. He earned a B.S. degree at Mississippi State University, entered the U.S. Public Health Service during World War II and later earned his medical...
Oral history.; Dr. Frank G. Gruich was born March 12, 1920 in Biloxi, Mississippi. Dr. Gruich earned a B.S. degree from the University of Mississippi and a degree in medicine from Tulane University, after which he worked at Charity Hospital in New...
