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...
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.; Maurice Guyton Turner was born on April 29, 1912, in Greene County, Mississippi. He graduated from Greene County Agriculture High School in 1932. After staying out of school for a year he worked in his brother's grocery store. He...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on April 18, 1996 with Zoya Zeman (born 1943). Ms. Zeman was a civil rights activist who worked on the Mississippi Summer Project in Clarksdale, where she worked at the community center, organizing classes and...
An autobiography written by Confederate Brigadier General Mark Perrin Lowrey and addressed to Colonel Calhoun Benham for a book Benham was writing. Lowret was born in McNairy County, Tennessee, and was a resident of the Corinth, Mississippi, area...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on April 8 and 13, 1982 with Mr. E. Hammond Smith at his home in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Smith was born on December 17, 1894 in Bladen Springs, Alabama. His family moved to Hattiesburg, Mississippi and...
Photograph of Athletic Director, Richard Giannini, as he unveils the new athletic mark featuring a golden eagle. Featured in the Talon, vol. 57, no. 4 (Spring 2003) on page 35.
From the University of Southern Mississippi Art Museum collection. Acrylic on canvas painting of orange circles and green and blue dots on a pink background, by Ken Weathersby.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Louisiana governor Dave Treen and a man labeled, "Legislature," appear as Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. They stand at the top of a knoll (levee, wall?) with stairsteps down to...
cartoon by Jim Ivey; "Appropriations Bills" worry as they look at an exclamation mark with a "Veto" stamp and a question mark with a "Veto Override" stamp.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Jim Lange. President Jimmy Carter is shown wearing a coon skin cap and holding his hands behind his back. Carter is smiling at a large bear that is facing him. The bear is standing on its back...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. A large, bright question mark hovers in the night sky over the silhouette of a town. Minarets can be seen in the silhouette. Below the question mark, the words "Arab-Israeli...
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.; Interview conducted on August 6, 1981 with Dr. W. J. Cunningham at his home in Memphis, Tennessee. William Jefferson Cunningham was born on December 23, 1905 in Iuka, Mississippi. In 1929, he graduated from the University of...
Oral history.; Mr. Donald Evans grew up on the Mississippi Gulf Coast and attended Arkansas A and M College on a football scholarship. In the late 1960s, he was drafted by the Minnesota Vikings. In 1968, Mr. Evans married Hiawatha Williams and...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on December 11, 1974 with Mrs. Lillie Jones at her home in Philadelphia, Mississippi. Jones was born in 1892 in Lauderdale County, Mississippi and soon after her family moved to Neshoba County. She attended a...
