An interview conducted on 06-08-1999 with Umoja Kwanguvu (born1925). Born William Jones, Umoja Kwanguvu actively protested and defied segregation while in the military, conducted protest activities against the prevailing Jim Crow attitudes and laws...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on February 20, 2008 with Ellis Cuevas, who describes life in the Waveland, MS, area before and after Hurricane Katrina.
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.; An interview conducted on February 22, 2007 with Anne Petty, a retired schoolteacher, who describes hearing about Hurricane Katrina from her hospital bed in Washington and learning of its damage to her home in Pascagoula.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on January 31, 1977 with Jimmy Carter Fairley (born 1921). A native of Greene County, Mississippi, Mr. Fairley was active in the civil rights movement at the local, state, and national levels.
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.; Mr. Balfour William Ruff Sr. was born March 31, 1923, in Jackson, Mississippi. He moved to Tupelo at a young age and attended its public schools. For many years he operated the Ruff Dairy Farm, the first in the Tupelo area to...
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.; Mrs. Laura Mae Davenport was born in Gholson, Mississippi, on October 22, 1908. She attended the Noxubee County Agricultural High School before moving to Shuqualak to finish high school in 1927. She began a teaching career and...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on August 6, 1981 with Dr. W. J. Cunningham at his home in Memphis, Tennessee. William Jefferson Cunningham was born on December 23, 1905 in Iuka, Mississippi. In 1929, he graduated from the University of...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on November 11, 1995 with Curtis C. Bryant (born 1917). In 1961, Mr. Bryant and Bob Moses became the catalysts to start the voter registration drive in Mississippi. Bryant was also active in the NAACP and the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Ed Valtman. In front of the United Nations building, a hen labeled "UN Assembly" sits atop a gigantic egg labeled "Peaceful settlement of Vietnam War." U.N. Secretary General U Thant and U.S....
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man [Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill?] labeled "Demo. House" is dressed as the Easter Bunny and is digging a hole beside a tree on the lawn of the White House. A large basket...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ronald Reagan has the body of a hen and is sitting on a large egg in a nest. The egg has many cracks in it, and the words, "Veep, veep, veep, veep," surround him. The title...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Knudsen. A dove labeled "U.S. doves" sits on top of an oversized egg in a nest. The egg is labeled "Communist hopes for Vietnam victory." The dove says, "Peace at any price; Quit now; Stop...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Knudsen. An egg that is cracking open labeled "World War III" sits on top of a portion of the globe labeled "Middle East." The hot sun overhead is labeled "Arab-Israel hate." The cartoon...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Riedell. A chicken with a head drawn to resemble Charles de Gaulle stands over a nest labeled "$220 million gold sale to U.S. in June." In the nest is a large egg labeled "24 kt." The...
From the McGuffey's Reading Charts. A chart intended to teach students how to read the English language. Lesson 9: See Ned's old hen! The nest has ten eggs in it. Nell will get the eggs. Lesson XVI is on the reverse side.
