Oral history.; An interview conducted on December 29, 2006 with Letitia Willams, Director of the Hancock County Chamber of Commerce, who describes escaping to Jackson, Mississippi, before Hurricane Katrina's landfall and working with state and...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on July 25, 2006 with Naseer and Zaheer Ahmad. Zaheer had been a taxi operator in New Orleans for twenty-five years when Katrina forced his family to Virginia. Zaheer recalls his life in New Orleans and...
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.; An interview conducted on December 19, 2006 with Kurt Brautigam, Distinguished Lecturer in the School of Mass Communication and Journalism at Southern MIss. Mr. Brautigam discusses preparing for Hurricane Katrina and its effects on...
From the Kershner (Charles) Papers. A seven page speech by Charles “Chuck” Kershner, the editor of The Student Printz in spring 1964. The speech was delivered during the Symposium on Social Justice held at USM’s Thad Cochran Center on...
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...
Twenty-page typescript of the diary of Jinny Glass, dated August 7, 1964, through August 25, 1964. Glass was a Freedom Summer volunteer from California who worked at the Palmer's Crossing Community Center, south of Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
cartoon by John Riedell; The leaves of a circle of trees have all fallen onto the ground. A Canadian mounted policeman rakes up the fallen leaves that are labeled,"in-the-red leaves."
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Ed Valtman. An elephant dressed in a suit and smoking a cigar sits at a desk, one hand on an open newspaper. In his other hand, he holds a magazine open to a large picture of General William...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A bird nest box mounted on top of a wooden post has the facade of the White House. A sign attached to the post reads, "Be kind to your ruffled-feathered friend." The cartoon...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man who is labeled, "Warmth of compassion for others" on the arm of his coat also wears a large round pin on his coat front with a check mark and the words, "fair share...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Louisiana governor John McKeithen is pulling a covering off a huge dollar bill sculpture which is mounted on a base labeled "Governor's program." The covering is labeled, "New...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Collins. Inside an ornate frame labeled "NATO 25th anniversary," Uncle Sam smokes a cigar labeled "Detente" and appears surprised. A woman labeled Europe and holding a shield labeled "EEC"...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Knudsen. A large ship labeled "Russian Navy" is steaming through the Mediterranean Sea. The gun mounted at the ship's prow has been fired toward some small ships in the distance. A...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Knudsen. A man labeled "Czech people" stands in Central Europe in an area fenced by tall barbed wire. A flag with hammer and sickle is mounted on top of the fence. The horizon line is the...
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Published in London and Edinburgh by Thomas Nelson & Sons, between 1880 and 1892. Cover title. In verse. "Untearable--mounted on cloth"--Cover. Date based on use of "untearable--mounted on...
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Published in New York by McLoughlin Bros., Inc., circa 1870s. Title and imprint from cover. Text on p. [2] and [3] of cover. "Mounted on linen." Printed on one side of leaf only; text and...
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Published in New York by McLoughlin Bros., Inc., circa 1890s. Title and imprint from cover. P. [2] and [3] of cover included in pagination. "Mounted on linen".
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Published in New York by McLoughlin Bros., Inc., in 1888. Title, imprint, and series statement from cover. Caption title: Little Red Riding Hood. P. [2] and [3] of cover included in pagination. ...
