A collection of ten 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.; Interview conducted on July 7, 1993 with Ken Fairly, a Mississippi law enforcement officer and journalist. Fairly was born on February 18, 1928 in Hazlehurst, Mississippi. Now retired, he had two careers: one as a journalist and...
Oral history.; Mr. James Madison Johnson was born on March 17, 1955, in Laurel, Mississippi. During his childhood, he lived in George County, Lucedale, Leaf, and McLain, Mississippi. Mr. Johnson attended college at Mississippi Valley State,...
Oral history.; Ms. Mary Ellen Leftwich was born on November 10, 1916, in Arkansas. Her mother died when she was a small child, and her father remarried. The family lived in Gunnison, Mississippi, on a farm; the young people in the community...
Oral history.; Howard Dudley (Blue) Long was born in Tupelo, Mississippi, on October 18, 1927. As a child, Mr. Long canvassed for votes with his father, the chancery clerk, and he heard many political speeches, including some made by Theodore...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on August 15, 1978 with Mr. Thomas Y. Minniece. Minniece was born in Meridian, Mississippi on October 9, 1912. He received a BA degree from the University of Texas in 1933 and a law degree from the University of...
Oral history.; Viola Brown Sanders was born in Sidon, Mississippi, on February 21, 1921. After Miss Sanders finished her education, she taught school for two years in Glen Allan, Mississippi. In 1943, Miss Sanders joined the United States Navy...
Oral history.; Reese Harris Snell was born on December 20, 1924, in Meridian, Mississippi. He graduated from Meridian High School and joined the Army after graduation. Mr. Snell served overseas with the 85th Infantry Division and received a Bronze...
Oral history.; Mr. Ray William (Buck) Wells was born August 21, 1916, on a dairy farm three-fourths of a mile southwest of Mississippi Normal College (now The University of Southern Mississippi). Sometime around 1920 or 1921 he moved into...
Oral history.; Obie Clark was born October 31, 1932, near DeKalb, Mississippi. He earned a degree from Mississippi Industrial College and did additional college work at the University of Minnesota. For many years he taught school in Meridian,...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on April 1, 1993 and January 6, 1995 with Ariel Barnes (born 1917). Mrs. Barnes was born in Forest, Mississippi, but moved to Hattiesburg shortly after. She attended Alcorn University, where she earned a...
A complimentary matchbook used recruiting and marketing. The cover has printing: "Mississippi's fastest growing college...Compliments of Mississippi Southern College Department of Intercollegiate Athletics, Hattiesburg, Mississippi...Close cover...
Photograph of an advertisement for Wimpy's, a student hangout. The ad promotes Wimpy's as a place to gather during away football games. It also features plate lunches and sportswear.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eddie Germano. Two football players are in the foreground of the cartoon, facing each other on the playing field. The player labeled "Russia" is dressed in an older style uniform and helmet and...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eddie Germano. Arthur Goldberg, dressed in a football uniform and carrying a football labeled "U.S.," is rushing toward the entrance of the United Nations building. The cartoon caption reads,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man sits in a chair in his living room, a television in front and a tray of snacks beside him. His wife is in the doorway behind him, and she says, "It may be Super Bowl...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A Monopoly-style board game is labeled "Saints 14-yr. franchise" and has the head of a helmeted player and a football in the center of the board. Around the outside of the board...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A huge, uniformed football player carrying a football and with "34th Sugar Bowl Classic" on the jersey is rushing for yardage in an indistinct [interior?] environment and has...
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 Eldon Pletcher. Two men watch the Washington Redskins and Oakland Raiders play in Superbowl XVIII. The player with the ball is at the bottom of a large pile of fighting players. One man says to...
