Oral history.; An interview conducted on May 12, 2006 with Victoria Cintra. Ms. Cintra discusses the problem of the exploitation of immigrant labor in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on March 19, 2008 with Vincent Creel. An employee of the City of Biloxi, Mr. Creel discussesthe city's preparation, response and recovery from Hurricane Katrina.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on July 18, 2006 with Odalee Fair. A resident of New Orleans, Ms. Fair discusses her experiences during and after Hurricane Katrina.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on June 12, 2008 with Rev. S.V. and Virginia Adolph of Gulfport, MS. Mr. Adolph is a pastor at First Missionary Baptist Church in Gulfport and they discuss the church's role in recovery after Hurricane Katrina.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on March 6, 2009 and April 2, 2009 with James L. Black, a pastor at Faith Tabernacle of Praise in Biloxi, MS. Rev. Black describes the devastation that Hurricane Katrina wrought on the Mississppi Gulf Coast as...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on February 27, 1991 in the city hall of Corinth, Mississippi with Mayor Edward S. Bishop, Sr. Bishop was born in Starkville, Mississippi on December 11, 1907. In 1926, he completed high school at Jackson...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on June 21-22, 2007 with Carter Bise, Chancery Court Judge on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Judge Bise describes his experience in Gulfport during and after Hurricane Katrina.
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.; Born on March 28, 1914, Dr. Eleanor Byrd Walters was born in Gunnison, Mississippi. In 1934, she received her B.S. in education from Delta State Teachers College and went on to earn several advanced degrees. From 1934 through 1943...
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...
Oral history.; Ms. Mary Ellen Leftwich was born on November 10, 1916, in Arkansas. Her mother died when she was a small child, and her father remarried. The family lived in Gunnison, Mississippi, on a farm; the young people in the community...
Oral history.; Mr. Alvin L. Fielder Sr. was born December 7, 1900 in Newton County, Mississippi. Mr. Fielder moved to Meehan Junction, Mississippi in 1913 and remained there until 1918, when he moved to Meridian. In 1918 he was a lumberyard saw...
Oral history.; The family of Dr. Isaac Thomas moved to Hattiesburg from Beaumont, Perry County, Mississippi, in 1935. He entered Eureka High School that year, graduating in 1938, one of a class of thirty three. Dr. Thomas stresses how important...
Oral history.; The Honorable Frank D. Barber was born on April 2, 1929, in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Barber attended the University of Mississippi for a year before volunteering for the U.S. Army which involved National Guard work in the U.S. and...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man with a globe for a head is climbing up the side of a mountain. He is using a pick and has a rope over his shoulder. The ledge he is about to reach is labeled, "21-nation...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man with a globe for a head is covered in cuts and bruises and has a bandaged foot and leg. Using a crutch, he is moving toward the United Nations building. He also holds a...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Knudsen. Uncle Sam, labeled "U.S. prestige," stands partially bent over in a bullfighting arena labeled "Latin America." The stadium is full of spectators. Uncle Sam's back is hunched over...
From the Map Collection. A map comprised of several sections. The center panel shows the the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean Islands, and parts of South America, Mexico, and the U.S. Additional panels illustrates the Baye de Panama, St. Augustini,...
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of the exterior of the Institutie of Latin American Studies building at Mississippi Southern College.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of the Institute for Latin American Studies car taken during the Mississippi Southern College homecoming parade in downtown Hattiesburg.
