Oral history.; Lusia Harris-Stewart was born February 10, 1955, in Minter City, Mississippi. She attended Amanda Elzy High School in Greenwood, Mississippi. In 1977, she graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in physical education from Delta...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Leonid Brezhnev talks with a Soviet general in Moscow, the site of the 1980 Summer Olympics. The Olympic flame and an onion dome are in the background. Two men labeled "Afghan...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. The cartoon is in two parts. In the left panel, Leonid Brezhnev is a ventriloquist sitting in a chair while holding a toy bear in his lap. The bear has the five Olympic rings on...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A Soviet official with a star on his chest walks into a room and catches a second man watching the Olympics on television. A cityscape [Moscow?] can be seen outside the window....
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 June 18, 2007 with Margaret Alfonso, the Senior Chancery Court Judge for Hancock, Harrison, and Stone counties. She discusses her experience with Hurricane Katrina on the Gulf Coast.
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. Earl Napoleon Moore was born in Biloxi, Mississippi, on December 19, 1914. His father was a ship and bridge carpenter, and his mother was a homemaker. Mr. Moore graduated from Biloxi Colored High School. He was a boxer and a...
Oral history.; Mr. O.W. Reily Jr. was born on June 17, 1924, in Shreveport, Louisiana. As a child, he attended public school in Louisiana and was active in sports, including track, basketball, and boxing. From October, 1941, through November,...