Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 23, 1977 with Mr. Jimmy Swan. Swan was born in Cullman County, Alabama. He ran away from home when he was thirteen or fourteen and ended up in Wayne County, Mississippi. Swan sang in nightclubs and...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Jimmy Carter, dressed as a gas station attendant, leans against gas pumps at a station named "Jimmy's Service." A sign on the pump reads, "Help balance the budget and fill 'er...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Ed Valtman. A Jimmy Carter campaign staffer with folded papers under his arm, in the foreground of the cartoon, speaks to a group of puzzled-looking people at a "Carter for President" rally....
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Ed Valtman. Newly elected President Jimmy Carter has made a visit to Plains, Georgia. The sign on a building reads, "Jimmy Carter, Plains, Georgia." He prepares to get into a car as Plains...
A collection of eight 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...
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.; Mr. Spain was born in 1927 in Ohio and moved with his family to Mississippi in 1930. While still a high school student, he helped build and operate a local AM radio station. Having graduated with honors from Mississippi State...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. President Jimmy Carter stands next to a table in a book shop with a dismayed look on his face. He has placed one hand on the corner of the table, and the other is propped on his...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Four small men labeled "Allies" are sitting on top of an oil barrel underneath a giant poster of Jimmy Carter dressed as Uncle Sam. Carter is pointing his finger and saying, "I...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Jimmy Carter sits on the equestrian statue in Jackson Square. He is sitting behind Andrew Jackson and is holding his hat in a similar way. Behind him is St. Louis Cathedral.
Oral history.; Interview conducted on July 2, 1974 with Mrs. Ellie J. Dahmer at her home in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Dahmer was born in Jasper County, Mississippi in 1925. After completing high school at Jasper County Training School she...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on September 10, 1978 with Ms. Sarah Johnson at her home in Greenville, Mississippi. Johnson was born on March 10, 1938 in Charleston, South Carolina. She is an African American woman who has been active on...
Oral history.; Howard Dudley (Blue) Long was born in Tupelo, Mississippi, on October 18, 1927. As a child, Mr. Long canvassed for votes with his father, the chancery clerk, and he heard many political speeches, including some made by Theodore...
Oral history.; Born to Denton and Odelier Jones Sr. on June 8, 1926, Odelier Morgan began her life on a plantation in Bolivar County, Mississippi, one of twelve children. She and her family were sharecroppers, and her parents also did day work to...
Oral history.; LePoint Cassibry Smith was born on October 29, 1920, in Memphis, Tennessee; she grew up in Cleveland, Mississippi. She attended the Hill Demonstration School at Delta State Teachers College; she then attended and was graduated from...
Photograph of Jimmy Buffett at a book signing. Buffett was named one of the University of Southern Mississippi's most intriguing people of 1999. Also found in the 1999 Southerner yearbook on page 287.
From the AAEC Editorial Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Jimmy Carter is dressed in a long nightshirt labeled "1980" and holds a scythe (a la grim reaper). He is packing boxes in the Oval Office. In the center of the cartoon is a file cabinet...
