Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on June 12, 2007 and February 20, 2008 with Robert Gavagnie. A descendent of some of the first settlers on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, Mr. Gavagnie discusses his experiences as Chief of the Bay St. Louis...
Oral history.; An interview with Arneshia Jenkins conducted on October 31, 2006. An eighth grader in Biloxi, Mississippi when Hurricane Katrina hit, Jenkins describes her experiences during and after the storm.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on February 21, 2007 with Aimee Gautier-Dugger, who describes her experience waiting out the storm in Gautier, the city her ancestors founded, and the struggle to regroup after the storm.
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.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on February 22, 2007 with Harry McDonald, Sr., a retired engineer at Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Mississippi, who discusses Hurricane Katrina's effect on his neighborhood, his experience with FEMA, and...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on June 24, 1998 with J.C. Fairley, Mamie Phillips, and Charles Phillips, who were all active in the NAACP during the civil rights movement of the 1950s and the 1960s.
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on April 8 and 13, 1982 with Mr. E. Hammond Smith at his home in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Smith was born on December 17, 1894 in Bladen Springs, Alabama. His family moved to Hattiesburg, Mississippi and...
Oral history.; Born on January 27, 1966, in Natchez, Mississippi, to Elisha and Vera Wilkins, Ms. Juanita Wilkins was the eleventh of twelve children. She was graduated from high school in Natchez, and left two weeks later, moving to Dallas,...
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.;Mr. F.W. Bishop was born on December 11, 1897, near Shaw, Mississippi. His family farmed in the Skene community before moving to Cleveland, Mississippi, in 1911. Mr. Bishop began his education in a one-room schoolhouse in Skene and...
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs; Photograph of a Halloween dance at the Forrest Club in Hattiesburg in 1913. Group photo of attendees in costume. Identifications are included with the photo.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A witch (Uncle Sam?) flies through the sky on a broom above houses, a huge moon in the background. A plane flies by in the opposite direction, and a man leans out the window...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. A man in a hospital bed pulls the bedclothes up to his nose. He is afraid of what he sees at his window, a ghost labeled "Rising hospital rates." A hospital chart hangs from the foot...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A child in a skeleton costume walks down the street carrying an enormous bag of candy labeled, "Trick or treat." The cartoon caption reads, "The affluent society."
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Richard Locher. Ichabod Crane, labeled "Oil costs," is riding a horse at a full gallop. He is being chased by the Headless horseman, labeled "Gov't [government] control." The Headless horseman...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ronald Reagan and a man with an elephant head walk alongside a tall wooden fence, looking up fearfully at a huge jack-o-lantern labeled "Unemployment." On the other side of the...
cartoon by Eddie Germano; Two hippies, one man and one woman, wear "hippie" attire as they walk while smoking on a Halloween night. One hippie holds a sign that states,"down with the establishment." Two children in costumes are seen behind, and...
