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...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Jon Kennedy. In the foreground is the corner of a large building with columns, labeled "Law, justice, decency among nations." In the distance is a small tent surrounded by men using whips and...
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...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. The prow of a large ship under U.S. flag is sailing into the cartoon space from the right. It carries the name, "U.S. Vietnam efforts." On the left is an Asian man in pirate...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Riedell. The USS Pueblo is tied up at a dock, and it flies a flag that has a hammer and sickle and is labeled "North Korea." Lines indicate radio communications and are labeled "Inadequate...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on August 2, 2007 and October 9, 2007 with Edmond Boudreaux, Jr., a longtime Mississippi Gulf Coast resident and active local historian of the region. Mr. Boudreaux discusses the impact of Hurricane Katrina on...
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...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A U.S. military jet plane flies in a sky labeled "International air space" as missiles from below labeled, "Libya" and "Korea" fly past. Around the jet are shapes of explosion....
Oral history.; Reverend Oliver D. Gilmer was born in Kentucky on May 31, 1927. As he grew up on a farm, he attended a one-teacher school from primer through the eighth grade. During World War II, he was drafted into the Army. He served in the...
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.; Obie Clark was born October 31, 1932, near DeKalb, Mississippi. He earned a degree from Mississippi Industrial College and did additional college work at the University of Minnesota. For many years he taught school in Meridian,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Jon Kennedy. President Lyndon Johnson, looking dismayed, is portrayed as an automobile mechanic working on the engine of a high performance race car labeled "Lyndon Johnson special." A number...
Oral history.; Born on January 19, 1958, in Greenwood, Mississippi, Jon Levingston grew up in a Jewish family in Cleveland, Mississippi. Mr. Levingston attended a boarding school in Rome, Georgia and then the University of Georgia and the Virginia...
Oral history.; Mr. George A. Stevens was born in 1910 in Forrest County, Mississippi. He attended Hattiesburg public schools but graduated from high school in Anthony, New Mexico. Mr. Stevens returned to attend The University of Southern...
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 Tigert (David Neal) Letters; this collection contains approximately 200 letters written by David Neal Tigert to his family while he was at basic training at Fort Sam Houston in Texas. Letter from Tigert to his mother and father from...
From the Tigert (David Neal) Letters; this collection contains approximately 200 letters written by David Neal Tigert to his family while he was at basic training at Fort Sam Houston in Texas. Letter from Tigert to his mother and father from...
From the Tigert (David Neal) Letters; this collection contains approximately 200 letters written by David Neal Tigert to his family while he was at basic training at Fort Sam Houston in Texas. Letter from Tigert to his mother and father from...
From the Tigert (David Neal) Letters; this collection contains approximately 200 letters written by David Neal Tigert to his family while he was at basic training at Fort Sam Houston in Texas. Letter from Tigert to his mother and father from...
From the Tigert (David Neal) Letters; this collection contains approximately 200 letters written by David Neal Tigert to his family while he was at basic training at Fort Sam Houston in Texas. Letter from Tigert to his mother and father from...
