Oral history.; An interview conducted on August 31, 2009 with David Elliott. A newscaster at WLOX-TV, Mr. Elliott describes his experiences during and after Hurricane Katrina.
Oral history.; An interview conducted August 29, 2006 with Pam McVey, a nurse at Biloxi Regional Medical Center, who describes Hurricane Katrina's devastating effects on the hospital and its patients.
Oral history.; Interview conducted on July 12, 1973 with Mr. Jerry Clower at his office in Yazoo City, Mississippi. Clower was born in 1926 at Route Four, Liberty, Mississippi. After graduating from high school, he joined the U.S. Navy. On...
A handwritten list of Freedom Summer volunteers and staff in Hattiesburg written by Joe Ellin. The list gives the volunteers' religion, race, approximate age, and their work site. There are tally marks for the statistics on the lower right corner....
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Ed Valtman. In the foreground, an arm is shown pouring milk into a saucer from a bottle labeled "Milk fund." Many cats are gathering to drink from the saucer. Two cats are labeled "Election"...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Jerry Fearing. Hubert Humphrey sits at a player piano labeled "'76 campaign," holds up his hands, and says, "Look Ma, no hands!" Musical notes surround the piano. The paper roll in the piano is...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on June 26, 1979 with Mr. William J. Simmons at his office in Jackson, Mississippi. Simmons was born in 1916 in Utica, Mississippi. He attended Millsaps College and Mississippi College, graduating from the...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on November 16, 1977 with George Rogers (born 1927). Mr. Rogers, a Rhodes Scholar, was elected to the Mississippi House of Representatives, where he served for more than twenty years. He became well known for his...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on June 19, 2006 with artist Lori K. Gordon. Ms. Gordon discusses her community, Clermont Harbor, Mississippi, before Hurricane Katrina, as well as her experiences afterward. Pieces from Ms. Gordon's work, The...
Oral history; Fredrick Harrison Cook III was born in Pascagoula, Mississippi, on April 15, 1952. During his senior year at The University of Southern Mississippi, Mr. Cook was drafted by the Baltimore Colts of the National Football League. He...
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...
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...
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.; 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.; Charles C. Jacobs Jr. was born in Greenville, Mississippi, on January 13, 1921. Mr. Jacobs attended the University of Mississippi and returned to its law school after serving as a Marine during World War II. During his career, he was...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on July 30, 1980 with Mr. Erle Johnston at his home in Forest, Mississippi. Johnston was born on October 10, 1917 in Garyville, Louisiana. In 1941, he moved Forest, Mississippi and bought the fledgling newspaper,...
Oral history.; Discusses her childhood education, life at Alcorn State University as a college student, and her early teaching positions. Describes her voting rights lawsuit and the repercussions on her career. Expresses her opinions on school...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Stampone. Uncle Sam watches with dismay as George McGovern and Eugene McCarthy, both with feathered wings strapped to their shoulders, stand poised to jump off the edge of a high cliff...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A psychologist (or psychiatrist) drawn to resemble Sigmund Freud sits in a chair taking notes as he listens to his client (or patient), who is sitting in a chair across from...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A donkey holds an open metal aspirin box with "Aspirants" written on the inside lid. Marks around the donkey's head indicate sickness, dizziness, or headache. Inside the aspirin...
