Oral history.; An interview conducted on May 12, 2008 with Julia Caruso, a retired teacher who lives in Waveland, MS. She discusses Hurricane Katrina's devastation on the area as well as its impact on her family and close friends.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on May 9, 2007 with Perry and Bobbye Gibson. Long-time residents of the Gulf Coast, they discuss their ties to the community of Bay St. Louis as well as their experiences during and after Hurricane Katrina.
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 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 26, 1975 with Mr. Charles Johnson at his home in Jackson, Mississippi. Johnson was born in 1911 in Amory, Mississippi. After receiving a degree in Science from Mississippi State University, he began...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on May 8, 1971 with the Honorable Ross Robert Barnett in Jackson, Mississippi. Barnett was born on January 22, 1898 in Leake County, Mississippi. He graduated with his B.A. from Mississippi College in 1924. In...
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...
Transcribed copy of a document detailing the curriculum of Freedom Schools. Begins with a Table of Contents showing the major curriculum divisions: academic, citizenship, and recreational and artistic. Also gives details of activities and materials...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on May 11, 1982 with Professor N.R. Burger at his residence in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Burger was born on April 7, 1909 in Brookhaven, Mississippi. In 1932, he completed his undergraduate degree from Alcorn...
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.; Mr. Alvin L. Fielder Sr. was born December 7, 1900 in Newton County, Mississippi. Mr. Fielder moved to Meehan Junction, Mississippi in 1913 and remained there until 1918, when he moved to Meridian. In 1918 he was a lumberyard saw...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Ed Valtman. White House Chief of Staff Hamilton Jordan and a bearded man (unidentified) hold a large chart labeled "Latest polls" which shows declining poll results. The bearded man points to...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. A man holding a bouquet of flowers looks around a door into a hospital room at the patient within and says, "Hope there's nothing seriously wrong with his ticker!" In the room, an...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. A man in a hospital bed pulls the bedclothes up to his nose. He is afraid of what he sees at his window, a ghost labeled "Rising hospital rates." A hospital chart hangs from the foot...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Ed Valtman. Richard Nixon, dressed as an eye doctor, stands beside an eye chart and points to it with his pencil. Letters on the chart spell out "ABM vote crucial" on the first three lines and...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man labeled "N.O. taxpayer" stands before a framed painting. In the painting are a chart with a downward trend line labeled, "Flop in sales tax returns," dollar signs, jagged...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man sits at a desk with a "Regional Transit Authority" nameplate. He appears to be rolling up his shirt sleeves. Behind him on the wall is a large poster, the top half of...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man who appears confused stands in the foreground looking at a huge chart labeled "Gross national product chart." A mostly upward trend line is labeled, "U.S. economic...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man with an elephant head is in a hospital bed hooked to an intravenous line. On the elephant's head is a bandage labeled "Edwards landslide," and the chart at the foot of the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A map of the United States is filled in with the grid lines of a graph (or chart) and is labeled "College entrance test scores." The graph line runs from West Coast to East...
