Oral history.; An interview conducted on June 18, 1980 with Charles Hudson Griffin (born 1926). Griffin served in the office of U. S. Congressman John Bell Williams until 1968 when he campaigned for the position himself. He served three terms...
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.; Ms. Margaret Keith Andresen was born in Biloxi, Mississippi on May 3, 1943. She attended Perkinston High School and the Perkinston Campus of Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College. As a teacher at Moss Point High School from...
Oral history.; Born on October 20, 1939, in Sandy Ridge, Lowndes County, Alabama, Mr. Loyce Searight moved with his family to Biloxi, Mississippi, in March of 1947. He graduated from M.F. Nichols High School and went on to earn several other...
cartoon by Eddie Germano; The communist symbol of the sickle and the hammer hovers in "The Ominous Cloud." The word "congo" hovers over the jungle village.
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.; Discusses Murchison's time spent in the United States Army. Particularly focuses on his participation in the Vietnamese Conflict. During that time, Murchison served both as an adviser and in an actual unit. He received a number of...
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 February 2, 1976 with James Cohen (born 1920). Since 1953, Mr. Cohen has been active in several civic associations in Hattiesburg and provides insight into the city's race relations and politics from the 1950s...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on February 21, 1980 with the Honorable George M. Yarbrough at his home. Yarbrough was born on August 15, 1916 at Red Banks, Mississippi. Yarbrough served in the U.S. Army during World War II, achieving the rank...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher; McNamara, dressed in jungle clothes, is standing on a giant question mark in the jungle that reads, "Question of War Expansion...How much."
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. A man in a darkened movie theater rises from his seat and steps into the aisle to leave, hat in hand. On the screen is a film or newsreel titled, "Thailand involvement" showing a...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eddie Germano. An American soldier and Ho Chi Minh are in the jungle of Vietnam. The American is looking carefully around a tree. Above him are Christmas decorations, and a Christmas stocking...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man labeled "Colombia" is kicking Fidel Castro out of a forest or jungle. Castro is holding a satchel labeled "Cuban offensive into Central America" and is saying, "You win...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. An American soldier in a Jeep is on a road labeled, "Vietnam." The jungle is on either side of the road, and the road makes a winding descent through a valley. A mile marker...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Cuban leader Fidel Castro rides in a Jeep with a man labeled "Soviets" as they drive along a road leading into a jungle. The road is labeled "Central American inroads." The Jeep...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. In the jungle in Vietnam, an American soldier is on duty lying at the entrance of an open bunker holding a machine gun. Across the top of the bunker entrance are the words,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Outside an El Salvadoran village, two leftist guerillas hide in the jungle and spy on a deserted village polling place. Voting papers lie scattered on the grouned. One soldier...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. The front portion of a tank labeled "U.S. Grenada involvement" is on the right side of the cartoon, with gun aimed at the jungle on the left side. At the edge of the jungle is a...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Yassir Arafat sits in a foxhole holding his rifle. The sky is filled with explosions. He says, "It's a real jungle out there! Terrorists fighting terrorists!"
