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 May 1, 1972 with Dr. Aaron Henry in his drugstore in Clarksdale, Mississippi. Henry was born on July 2, 1922 in Clarksdale, Mississippi. After serving in World War II, he went to Xavier College (now Xavier...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Arthur Henrikson. A toddler (Alabama Governor George Wallace) is stacking lettered blocks to make them spell, "President." Beside Wallace is a block with a question mark on it. Another toddler...
Oral history; Mrs. Ruth Evans Story was born on October 20, 1943, in Gulfport, Mississippi. She graduated from high school and attended Dillard University in New Orleans. On October 18, 1962, Ms. Ruth Evans married Almer L. Story in Gulfport....
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on April 3, 1995 and June 8, 1995 with Constance Baker (born 1912). Mrs. Baker has spent her life working for civil rights and in teaching. She was involved in the Head Start program from its inception and...
From the Adams (Victoria Gray) Papers. This two-part document includes a copy of a press release given by the Young Democrats Club of the University of Illinois regarding the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. A copy of a speech given by...
A handwritten list of Freedom Summer volunteers and staff in Hattiesburg written by Joe Ellin. The list gives the volunteers' religion, race, approximate age, and their work site. There are tally marks for the statistics on the lower right corner....
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eddie Germano. A donkey labeled "Democrats" wears a black patch labeled "Mayor Daley" on one eye. Stars and marks of pain radiate out from the donkey's covered eye. The cartoon caption reads,...
cartoon by John Riedell; The 1970 census is the topic of this cartoon. A Texas ten-gallon cowboy hat gallops past, with an Illinois stovepipe hat trailing behind. Illinois and Texas are represented as people at the bottom of the cartoon, and...
Oral history.; Mr. King T. Evans was born on March 19, 1913 near Uniontown, Alabama, in Perry County. In 1925, Mr. Evans moved to Mississippi with his parents. His father was a mechanic and farmer. For a brief period, Mr. Evans attended the...
Oral history.; Ms. Eleanora Hayes was born on May 28, 1930, in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. She grew up on her father's farm in Catahoula, Mississippi. During winter months, she and her siblings attended school, and during the six-month...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on June 23 and July 8, 1993 with Paul B. Johnson III concerning his father, Paul B. Johnson Jr., and Mississippi politics. Johnson was born in 1948 in Mississippi. Both his father, Paul B. Johnson Jr., and his...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on September 17, 1980 with the Honorable Tony Byrne, former mayor of Natchez, Mississippi at his office in the Natchez City Hall. Byrne was born on May 18, 1936 in Natchez, Mississippi. He attended Mississippi...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on May 17, 1972 with Associate Justice Thomas Pickens Brady, of the Supreme Court of Mississippi in his chambers in Jackson, Mississippi. This is the second part of an interview conducted on March 4, 1972 with...
From the Mississippiana Collection. A booklet published by the Passenger department of Illinois Central Railroad to publicize to its passengers the economic opportunities available in Mississippi.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of a train wreck on the Illinois Central Railroad at Palmer's Crossing.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of a train wreck on the Illinois Central Railroad at Palmer's Crossing.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of a train wreck on the Illinois Central Railroad at Palmer's Crossing.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of employees in front of the Illinois Central Railroad station in Hattiesburg.
