Oral history.; Three interviews conducted on August 8 and 10, 1976 and October 19, 1976 with Jesse Boyce Holleman (born 1924). He served in the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1947 until 1953. At that time, he became district attorney for...
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...
Materials in this collection were donated by William M. Colmer: First accession-1970. Additional information online at: http://www.lib.usm.edu/legacy/archives/m024.htm
Oral history.; Mr. Roberts Wilson Jr. was born July 6, 1941, in Rosedale, Mississippi. After attending both Vanderbilt University and the University of Mississippi, he went to Washington. D.C., during the mid 1960s where he worked in the office of...
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 September 2, 1981 with Mrs. Irene Napier at her home in Mount Olive, Mississippi. Napier was born on December 21, 1917 at Mount Olive in Covington, Mississippi. After having studied two years at Jones County...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on September 10, 1978 with Ms. Sarah Johnson at her home in Greenville, Mississippi. Johnson was born on March 10, 1938 in Charleston, South Carolina. She is an African American woman who has been active on...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on May 11, 1977 with the Honorable Horace Buckley at his home in Jackson, Mississippi. Buckley was born on July 14, 1941 in Jackson, Mississippi. He obtained his undergraduate degree from Mississippi Valley...
Oral history.; Dr. Frank G. Gruich was born March 12, 1920 in Biloxi, Mississippi. Dr. Gruich earned a B.S. degree from the University of Mississippi and a degree in medicine from Tulane University, after which he worked at Charity Hospital in New...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on July 12, 1973 with Mr. Jerry Clower at his office in Yazoo City, Mississippi. Clower was born in 1926 at Route Four, Liberty, Mississippi. After graduating from high school, he joined the U.S. Navy. On...
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.; Mr. Alton G. Bankston was born outside of Laurel, Mississippi on June 5, 1941. Mr. Bankston majored in political science and history at Jones County Junior College and attended the University of Southern Mississippi. In 1963 he...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Vic Runtz. Gerald Ford sits at a desk in an office and holds a newspaper with the headline, "Swift changes in leadership: Britain, France, Portugal, W. Germany." Richard Nixon has come through...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Vic Runtz. Gerald Ford is walking to school, bundled up against cold winter weather, carrying his school books. The schoolhouse is in the background. Ford looks over his shoulder at the lamb...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Richard Locher. Uncle Sam is standing outside the door of a house which is labeled "Metric system." He is talking to a man who has opened the door. A space ship labeled, "U.S. system of...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Richard Locher. In the foreground of the cartoon are a line of people, chained together, walking down a hill to the shoreline. Between two of the people, a sign labeled "Taxpayers" hangs from...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Richard Locher. A man in tattered clothes and labeled "New York City" is holding his hand out to Gerald Ford, who is walking past him on the street. The man says, "Hey buddy, can you spare a...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Richard Locher. A farmer in overalls is holding a pail in one hand and a milking stool in the other. He is looking up at a giant cow's udder above him labeled "Milk prices."
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Richard Locher. A burglar dressed all in black with a CIA button on his lapel is breaking into a safe. As he swings open the safe door, he reacts in surprise and drops his tools at the sight of...