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 May 18, 1972 with Ms. Ruby Magee at College Hall at the University of Southern Mississippi. Magee was born in 1940 in Tylertown, Mississippi. In 1962, she received a BA in history and political science from...
Oral history.; Miss Oseola McCarty was born on March 7, 1908, in Wayne County, Mississippi. McCarty attended Eureka Elementary School until the sixth grade when she dropped out to care for an aunt who was ill. While still in school, McCarty began...
Oral history.; Reverend F.T. (Ted) Shepherd was born July 10, 1924, in Greenville, Mississippi. In 1942, he was graduated from Greenville High School. During World War II he served in the armed forces. He graduated from Delta State Teachers...
Oral history.; Mrs. Sarah Harris Ruffin was born on April 15, 1914. Her parents came to Hattiesburg in the early 1900s. When young, Mrs. Ruffin did domestic and warehouse work. In 1949, she began working at the Brooklyn Jewish Hospital as a nurse's...
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...
Oral history.; Mr. Sank Powe was born in the Delta in Elizabeth, Mississippi, on April 20, 1942. Growing up, Mr. Powe often worked in the cotton fields for meager wages. Mr. Powe attended Mound Bayou High School, Jackson State University and Delta...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on October 22, 1996 with Mrs. Josephine Clemons Bell (born 1909). Her teaching career in elementary education in the public school of Natchez-Adams County spans twenty-nine and a half years. After retiring in...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Stampone. A uniformed soldier labeled "Viet Cong" carrying a rifle stands at the mouth of a large storm drain labeled "South Vietnam." At his feet are five stones. From inside the storm...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man labeled "Legislature" is holding under one arm a rolled up piece of paper that is labeled, "Bill to raise legislators' out-of-season expenses." With his other hand, he...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Doug Sneyd. A man smoking a cigar holds a placard with the words, "Let's end Vietnam the way it began -- with a Kennedy" for another man to see. The second man says, "Somehow, I don't think...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. The background of the cartoon is the grid of a chart with an upward trend line that is labeled, "Cost of living index." At the lower end of the line is a man's leg with trousers...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. An old man on the right side of the cartoon has a very long beard, the end of which is being held by a hand on the left side of the cartoon. The beard is labeled, "More...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Collins. The numbers 1-9-7-5 are linked to each other and placed underground to form a convoluted tunnel. Lions labeled "Inflation" and "Unemployment" guard the entrance and exit. Five men...
cartoon by Eddie Germano;"Steel management" is represented by a businessman."Labor" is a man wearing overalls. Labor places a "pay raise" slip in steel management's back pants pocket. In the second frame, steel management places a "price...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eddie Germano. Richard Nixon, dressed as a football player with "U.S." on the helmet, is the lone football player against four smaller players with Asian features and the hammer and sickle...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Ed Valtman. Secretary of State Cyris Vance is trying to walk a high circus tightrope holding a balancing stick. A large balloon labeled "Hopes for diplomatic relations with Red China" is tied...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Karl Hubenthal. A cartoonist shows a huge, wide cartoon to his managing editor. One end of the cartoon shows Richard Nixon's face; at the other end is Charles de Gaulle's face. Each drawing has...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on October 21, 1996 with Mr. Charles Cobb (born 1943) in Washington, D.C. In the summer of 1962, he was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) field secretary in Ruleville, Mississippi, where he and...
