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.; Interview conducted on November 16, 1977 with George Rogers (born 1927). Mr. Rogers, a Rhodes Scholar, was elected to the Mississippi House of Representatives, where he served for more than twenty years. He became well known for his...
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.; Interview conducted on June 5, 1999 with Sheila Michaels (born 1939). She attended the College of William and Mary, but was suspended for her political and racial opinions while on the school's newspaper board. In 1961, she joined...
Oral history.; Mr. Delmar Robinson was born in Biloxi, Mississippi, July 11, 1937. He attended Biloxi Colored School and M.F. Nichols School from which he graduated. Escaping the oppressive segregation of the Deep South, Mr. Robinson migrated to...
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...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Bob Taylor. Richard Nixon kneels outside a brick building in which is set a plate glass window covered by a pull-down shade labeled "Nixon's political enemies." With both hands, Nixon holds an...
cartoon by Bob Taylor; There are two scenes in this cartoon. In the first scene, a man stands with his back facing forward. The back of his coat is labeled "Congress," and it looks like someone is hugging him. In the second scene, the man is...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Bob Taylor. An elephant stands upright on its hind legs, its entire body wrapped in a long, wide strip of white material (resembling a mummy) and a ribbon, with the exception of the tail and...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Bob Taylor. A man labeled "Rocky," (Nelson Rockefeller), wearing a parachute, has just jumped from the side door of a plane labeled "The race." He looks back over his shoulder at the plane and...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Bob Taylor. Richard Nixon stands in a motorboat that is being swamped by high waves. With one hand, he uses a pail to bail water. With the other hand, he pulls on the cord of the outboard...
cartoon by Craig Macintosh; A bird with Mitchell's head is sitting on a telephone wire with earphones. There is a sign that reads,"Warning!! burden of proof of wiretapping by Justice Dept. now up to all defendants: Organized Crime Control Act of...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Craig Macintosh. Richard Nixon is shown as Superman, with a large "N" on his chest. He is standing on railroad tracks blocking the movement of a train labeled "Nationwide rail strike."
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Karl Hubenthal. A cartoonist shows a huge, wide cartoon to his managing editor. One end of the cartoon shows Richard Nixon's face; at the other end is Charles de Gaulle's face. Each drawing has...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Karl Hubenthal. An undertaker labeled "House Judiciary Committee" is measuring Richard Nixon's height for a casket. The undertaker is using magnetic audio tape from a reel labeled "Subpoenaed...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Karl Hubenthal. An elephant labeled "G.O.P. nat'l committee" carries an open umbrella and walks a tight rope suspended between two platforms labeled "San Diego" and "Miami." Shaking and...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Karl Hubenthal. Ronald Reagan and Gerald Ford, dressed in western clothing, are having a gunfight in an Old West town. Ford wears a sheriff's star on his shirt. Storefronts are labeled,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Karl Hubenthal. A photograph shows Leonid Brezhnev and Edward Kennedy in Russia, standing side by side in front of the Kremlin. Each has an arm around the shoulder of the other. Both wear heavy...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Karl Hubenthal. Charles de Gaulle is pictured with a very large nose labeled "Inflated franc crisis." A tightly buckled belt encircles his nose, with a tag hanging from the belt labeled...
