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.; An interview with Michael Hewes conducted on December 29, 2006. Hewes discusses his preparations before, and his experience during, and cleanup and recovery efforts after Hurricane Katrina in Gulfport, Mississippi.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on February 20, 2008 with Ellis Cuevas, who describes life in the Waveland, MS, area before and after Hurricane Katrina.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on February 22, 2007 with Sarah McPherson, an employee at the Pascagoula Public Library, who describes Hurricane Katrina's devastation on the town, the relief efforts, and rebuilding after the storm.
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.; Mr. Lee Owens, Jr. was born on May 7, 1921, in Natchez, Mississippi. As a child, Mr. Owens worked in a cotton field for half a day while attending school for half a day. Because his parents could not afford to send him to school, he...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man drives a streetcar labeled, "N.O. transit" up a hill. The side of the streetcar says, "Temporary tax increase," and he follows an arrow pointing uphill that reads,...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on April 26, 2006 with Ursula Daxecker. A native of Austria, Daxecker came to New Orleans as a graduate student. After her home was flooded in Hurricane Katrina, Daxecker moved to Northern Virginia. She has...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on June 28, 2007 with Elizabeth Marks Doolittle, Public Services Librarian at the University of Southern Mississippi, Gulf Park Campus. Ms. Doolittle discusses her experiences during Hurricane Katrina.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on January 4, 2006 with Eddie Williams, a member of the North Carolina Baptist Men, who describes his efforts with this volunteer organization on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on June 13, 2006 with Jennifer Walley, who was a nurse in Picayune, Mississippi, during Hurricane Katrina. Miss Walley describes her preparations for the storm as well as the hurricane's impact on Crosby...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on January 23, 1973 with Mr. William Dukes in his office in Gulfport, Mississippi. Dukes was born in the Sullivans' Hollow area near Raleigh, in Smith County, Mississippi on January 15, 1927. After his discharge...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on July 29, 1997 with Judge Darwin Maples (born approximately 1925). Judge Maples served as judge for almost thirty years over George, Jackson, and Greene counties, beginning in 1962. He was instrumental in...
From the Kate Greenaway Papers. Autograph letter signed. 13 pp. on 1 folded leaf. (15 x 10.5 cm.) To Lady Lindsay from Kate Greenaway at Hampstead, dated 28 January 1890.
From the McLoughlin Brothers Papers. A Letter from Hazel Hope Wanamaker Alquist to McLoughlin Brothers Inc., from the correspondence series of the McLoughlin Brother Papers. The McLoughlin Brothers Papers contain manuscripts, typescripts, galleys,...
From the AAEC Editorial Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ronald Reagan, dressed as a colonial, is labeled "U.S. deficit" on his vest. He stands beside a sign that reads, "Colonial Williamsburg welcomes 7-nation economic summit," and the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. An evil looking Soviet general holding flowers sits on top of a man in a hospital bed. The chart hanging from the end of the bed has "Tito" and a graph line moving up and down....
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. The barrel of a huge cannon labeled "Growing war in Vietnam" is pointing almost straight up, and a young woman labeled "World peace" with a laurel wreath on her head sits on its...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Louisiana governor Edwin Edwards and a second man [commissioner of administration Charles Roemer?] are on a large mainframe computer they are using as a raft. Sharks circle the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Hubert Humphrey, clothed in Western dress, is trying to ride a bucking donkey that is labeled, "The national party emblem." Humphrey has lost hold of the reins. The donkey's...
