Oral history.; An interview with Michael Hewes conducted on December 29, 2006. Hewes discusses his preparations before, and his experience during, and cleanup and recovery efforts after Hurricane Katrina in Gulfport, Mississippi.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on January 21, 2006 with Natalie C. Brown. Miss Brown lived near the Tulane campus during Hurricane Katrina and describes her evacuation and return to the city.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on March 14, 2007 with Richard Chenoweth, Jr., owner of Scranton's Restaurant in Pascagoula, MS. He describes his preparations for and experiences during Hurricane Katrina on the Gulf Coast.
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...
Oral history.; Father Peter Oliver Quinn was born on April 11, 1937, in Ireland. He was ordained when he was twenty-five years old in Ireland, and he came to Mississippi in September, 1962. Father Quinn's first assignment was at Sacred Heart...
From the Belcher (Granville W. and Mary Caroline) Letters. Granville W. Belcher, a farmer from Martinsville, Henry County, Virginia, served in company F, 57th Virginia Infantry during the Civil War. Belcher writes to his wife, Mary Caroline, on...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on July 22, 1981 with Mr. Charlie Parker at his home in Laurel, Mississippi. Parker was born in the early 1890s in Enterprise, Mississippi. After his family moved to Laurel around the turn of the century, Parker...
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.; An interview conducted on August 25, 1971 with Erskine Caldwell (1903-1987). Mr. Caldwell was a prominent American author whose works include Tobacco Road, (1932) and God's Little Acre (1933).
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. City Hall in New Orleans is shown in the background with "City in crisis" above it. In the foreground is a voting booth with curtain open to reveal the voting machine inside....
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Santa Claus drives his sleigh and reindeer across the sky with a huge moon in the background. Below is the Apollo 8 rocket hooked by cables to a launch tower. A sign reads,...
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.
From the Thigpen (S.G.) Papers. Photograph of the Thigpen Hardware office after Christmas Eve burglary. A broken rolling chair is on the left and a desk is on the right. In the background, blankets are used as dividers.
From the Thigpen (S.G.) Papers. Photograph of the Thigpen Hardware office after Christmas Eve burglary. Blanket divider is on the left, a desk with typewriter is on the bottom right of photo.
From the Thigpen (S.G.) Papers. Photograph of the Thigpen Hardware office after Christmas Eve burglary. Counter top with register and two adding machines. Curtains are on wall.
From the Thigpen (S.G.) Papers. Photograph of the Thigpen Hardware office after Christmas Eve burglary. Shelves with a hole in the middle; a blanket is draped from the hole down.
From the Thigpen (S.G.) Papers. Photograph of the Thigpen Hardware office after Christmas Eve burglary. Shown are two desks, one in foreground and one in background with typewriter. Many files and other items litter the room.
