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 Hattiesburg Historical Photographs; Photograph of a row of uniformed trolley car conductors standing on the car tracks, with trolley cars in the background. Three children and three men are posed in front of the conductors.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ernest Morial and New Orleans city councilman Joseph V. DiRosa are dressed as train conductors. Candidates for mayor of New Orleans, they are arguing beside the tracks where...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Louisiana governor Dave Treen is dressed as a railroad conductor, and he is holding a large stopwatch labeled, "Capital outlay timetable." He is thinking about a train engine...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ronald Reagan is driving a trolley and ringing the bell. The trolley is labeled "National transit systems" on its side, and the sign on the front is "Budget cut-backs." 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...
