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...
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 University of Southern Mississippi Art Museum collection. Off-set print, presumably of a location in Samoa, of people in boats on a lake with huts and trees in the background, by L. Macouillard.
From the University of Southern Mississippi Art Museum collection. Acrylic on paper painting of boats on a lake with people and animals on the shore and buildings in the background, by an unknown artist.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Richard Locher. In the backbround of the cartoon is a man in a canoe on a lake; he is holding a fishing rod with a broken line. Nearby are a woman and child on a dock. In the foreground,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eddie Germano. Candidates for president in the 1968 election are swimming in a lake labeled " '68 presidential swim." Above the lake, Ronald Reagan stands on the limb of a nearby tree preparing...
Oral history.; Viola Brown Sanders was born in Sidon, Mississippi, on February 21, 1921. After Miss Sanders finished her education, she taught school for two years in Glen Allan, Mississippi. In 1943, Miss Sanders joined the United States Navy...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on July 19, 1978 with Mr. W.S. Griffin at his home in Jackson, Mississippi. Griffin was born on October 15, 1913 near Mantee, Mississippi, in Webster County. In 1936, he accepted a position as a teacher and coach...
From the University of Southern Mississippi Art Museum collection. Oil on canvas painting of trees and hills with a lake in the foreground, by Steve Strickland.
Oral history.; Interview conducted on August 27, 1993 with Frank Ellis Smith at his bookstore in Jackson, Mississippi. Smith was born on February 21, 1918 in Sidon, Mississippi. He is a six-term U.S. representative from Mississippi who is best...