A collection of ten 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...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on March 28, 2006 with Alison Bass, a manager at Biloxi Grand Casino. She describes her experience before, during, and after Hurricane Katrina.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on August 10, 2006 with Zondra Anderson. Miss Anderson was a case manager for Hurricane Katrina evacuees in Fairfax County at the Northern Virginia Family Services Headquarters in Oakton, Virginia.
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...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on August 21, 1972 with the Honorable Russell C. Davis in his office in Jackson, Mississippi. He was born in Rockville, Maryland. After completing two years at the University of Maryland, Davis took employment...
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...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on November 6, 1979 with Dr. Arthur Lewis, emeritus professor of mathematics, emeritus professor of physics and astronomy, and emeritus Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Mississippi. Lewis...
Oral history.; LePoint Cassibry Smith was born on October 29, 1920, in Memphis, Tennessee; she grew up in Cleveland, Mississippi. She attended the Hill Demonstration School at Delta State Teachers College; she then attended and was graduated from...
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 Map Collection. Four maps on one sheet. Map A: parts of eastern Canada, including Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Map B: New England, including New York, New Jersey, and part of Pennsylvania. Map C:...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards is hitchhiking by the road holding a briefcase labeled, "First use tax" and with a sign around his neck labeled, "Going my way?" A transport...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A ship flying a banner with "Port of N.O." is labeled "General cargo trade." The ship is sailing in choppy waters. Large waves labeled...
cartoon by John Stampone; A naked man runs down a neighborhood street toward a post box. The man holds two envelopes in his hand, extended toward the post box. One envelope is addressed "Internal Revenue Service," and the other one is addressed...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. An elephant dressed in a suit and wearing a "Nixon & Agnew" button sees the ghost of Tom Dewey sitting at the top of a stairway and holding a paper that says, "Remember '48." On...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. The cartoon has two frames, upper and lower, and the cartoons are identical except for the people shown. In the upper frame Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew are in a rowboat...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A windmill labeled "'68 election campaign" is shown in the lower part of the cartoon, and in the far distance is the horizon. The rotating arms of the windmill are labeled,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. The Democratic donkey is driving an automobile labeled “Off to Chicago” on a highway. Luggage is stacked on the car trunk. The Republican elephant is running in the opposite...