From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eddie Germano. Charles de Gaulle and Uncle Sam stand face to face. De Gaulle holds a stack of gold bars, labeled "Gold standard." Uncle Sam holds "The U.S. dollar" out to de Gaulle. The cartoon...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Reg Manning. Uncle Sam drives a stage coach, inside of which are a trunk labeled "U.S. gold" and a person with a head shaped like a U.S. coin. The coin is labeled "U.S. $ [dollar]." The stage...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. In the background of the cartoon is a building labeled "Fort Knox" at the top of a steep mountain. It is labeled, "Bastion of the dollar" and has a huge dollar sign next to it...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on August 30, 1978 with Thomas Jefferson Tubb (born 1899). Mr. Tubb served as chairman of the Clay County Executive Committee for 47 years from 1928 to 1975 and during the Dixiecrat movement from 1950 to 1956....
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Ed Valtman. In the background of the cartoon, an ocean liner labeled "Pound" and flying a British flag is sinking. In the foreground, Uncle Sam is swimming with a a heavy round anchor stone...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by John Riedell. Ronald Reagan is kneeling beside a stream of water, where he is panning for gold. He smiles to see a large nugget labeled "California tax increase" in his pan. In the background,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Riedell. A chicken with a head drawn to resemble Charles de Gaulle stands over a nest labeled "$220 million gold sale to U.S. in June." In the nest is a large egg labeled "24 kt." The...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Karl Hubenthal. Charles de Gaulle thumbs his very large nose. His waving hand is labeled "Assault on the dollar." The cartoon caption reads,"Goldfinger."
Oral history.; Mrs. Janelle McComb was born in Lauderdale County, and moved to Tupelo, Mississippi, when two weeks old. As a child, Mrs. McComb enjoyed the annual Mississippi / Alabama Fair and Dairy Show. She survived the Tupelo tornado in her...
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).
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.; Dr. John Paul Quon was born June 11, 1942, in Moorhead, Mississippi. His parents emigrated from China to Mississippi to participate in a family-owned grocery store. Dr. Quon was in the first public school class in Mississippi that...
Oral history.; An interview with Sister Jacqueline Howard conducted on May 30, 2007. Principal at Our Lady Academy in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, Howard describes the impact of Hurricane Katrina on the school and the community of Bay St. Louis.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on June 18, 2007 with Margaret Alfonso, the Senior Chancery Court Judge for Hancock, Harrison, and Stone counties. She discusses her experience with Hurricane Katrina on the Gulf Coast.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on May 17, 2006 with Ronald J. Baker, a commercial fisherman in Biloxi, MS. Mr. Baker describes the hurricane's impact on his neighborhood, his personal business, and the shrimping industry in general.
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.; Two interviews conducted on March 29 and April 13, 1977 with Mr. Amzie Moore at his home in Cleveland, Mississippi. Moore was born on September 23, 1911 in rural Mississippi, on the county line of Carroll and Grenada Counties. In...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on March 22, 1979 with Eddie Carthan (born 1949). Mr. Carthan taught school at Durant Attendance Center and at Saints College in Lexington, Mississippi, and has owned and operated several businesses in Tchula,...
