From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eddie Germano. A man and a woman are walking past the United Nations Building and its lineup of national flags. They look up at a new skyscraper in New York, and they appear surprised to see...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Knudsen. A bird labeled "Czechoslovakia" is trying to fly, but a man's hand has caught hold of the bird's tail feathers and is preventing flight. The sleeve of the man is labeled "USSR."...
Oral history.; Kathleen (Kat) Bergeron was born on April 23, 1950. She attended Gulfport East High School and the W. Page Pitt School of Journalism at Marshal University in Huntington, West Virginia. From 1995 to 1996, Ms. Bergeron attended...
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.; 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.; Interview conducted on August 13, 1993 with Mr. Erle Johnston at his home in Forest, Mississippi. Johnston was born on October 10, 1917 in Garyville, Louisiana. In 1941, he moved Forest, Mississippi and bought the fledgling...
Zoya Zeman's senior thesis was written after her participation in the Mississippi Freedom Project in the summer of 1964. Putting her work into context, she begins with a description of the background history of Mississippi. Zeman then recounts her...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Two men and a woman stand near a flag pole on which hangs a flag at half mast. The flag has a large white circle with a hammer and sickle symbol. The hammer portion, in the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Vic Runtz. An aged man with a long beard wears sandles and a belted tunic labeled "The sixties." At the edge of a cliff, he has slipped on a banana peel labeled "Earth's unsolved problems."...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Ed Valtman. On a sidewalk crowded with pedestrians, a man carrying a briefcase labeled "Stock prices" is about to step into an open manhole that is marked by three cautionary flags. The man's...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on October 6, 2006 with Fred Dunaway and Caroline Dunaway. Residents of Back Bay, Biloxi, Mr. & Mrs. Dunaway discuss their experiences during and after Hurricane Katrina.
Oral history.; Mr. Tyrone Burton was born in Franklinton, Louisiana, on April 5, 1941. The family owned an eighty-eight acre farm. In 1961, Mr. Burton graduated from Franklinton High School. After high school, Burton attended Katy's Barber...