Oral history.; Miss Oseola McCarty was born on March 7, 1908, in Wayne County, Mississippi. McCarty attended Eureka Elementary School until the sixth grade when she dropped out to care for an aunt who was ill. While still in school, McCarty began...
Oral history.; Mrs. Lorita Nelson Jones was born on July 19, 1909, in Biloxi, Mississippi. Her mother's family were originally from New Orleans, Louisiana, of Creole heritage; her grandmother, Olivia Lewis, spoke only in French. Her father Lamar...
From the Hamlett (Ed) White Folks Project Collection. Nelson Blackstock's application to the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) summer project in Mississippi covers his formal education, useful skills, college activities, social...
Oral history.; Three interviews conducted on August 8 and 10, 1976 and October 19, 1976 with Jesse Boyce Holleman (born 1924). He served in the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1947 until 1953. At that time, he became district attorney for...
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Published in London by Thomas Nelson & Sons, circa 1860s. Title and imprint from cover. Part of the Nelson's oil colour picture books for the nursery series.
From the Hamlett (Ed) White Folks Project Collection. This document from Nelson Blackstock recounts a meeting of a few Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) workers with a local man involved in organizing labor unions. It also gives an account...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Richard Nixon and a elephant dressed in a suit stand in a circle of light from an overhead spotlight. Nixon and the elephant have raised their clasped hands. The illuminated...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Eugene McCarthy and Nelson Rockefeller face each other. Each holds a sign in one hand and points behind himself (in the direction from which he has come?). McCarthy's sign...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Ed Valtman. A well dressed elephant (drawn as a man) with thick black eyebrows stands, hands in pockets and smoking a cigar, before Nelson Rockefeller, who is sitting in a chair holding a...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Bob Taylor. A man labeled "Rocky," (Nelson Rockefeller), wearing a parachute, has just jumped from the side door of a plane labeled "The race." He looks back over his shoulder at the plane and...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Ed Valtman. Hubert Humphrey and Eugene McCarthy, with butterfly nets raised, chase a butterfly labeled "Nomination." Humphrey is in the lead. In the background, Richard Nixon and Nelson...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eddie Germano. Richard Nixon is sitting on the side of a steep hill, labeled "Presidential hill," and he is smiling at the view. Behind and above Nixon, resting on his shoulders, is a large...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eddie Germano. Richard Nixon and a large grouip of men, including Nelson Rockefeller, Ronald Reagan, and George Romney, have been fighting. Each has been wounded, but Nixon is the winner. The...
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 Eddie Germano. Nelson Rockefeller sits on a large stone labeled "Rocky" in the pose of Rodin's "The thinker." He holds a paper with the words, "Presidential nomination or RFK's New York Senate...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eddie Germano. Republican presidential candidates "Rocky" (Nelson Rockefeller) and "Nixon" (Richard Nixon) are shown from the waist down. Only knee high are two of the vice-presidential...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Richard Locher. A burglar dressed all in black with a CIA button on his lapel is breaking into a safe. As he swings open the safe door, he reacts in surprise and drops his tools at the sight of...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Gene Basset. Barry Goldwater, Nelson Rockefeller, and Richard Nixon stand behind the doors of a saloon, labeled, "For men only." Above the doorway is the sign, "Presidential primaries."...
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 March 23, 1977 with Mr. Jimmy Swan. Swan was born in Cullman County, Alabama. He ran away from home when he was thirteen or fourteen and ended up in Wayne County, Mississippi. Swan sang in nightclubs and...
