Oral history.; An interview conducted on February 19, 2009 with George Bass, Chief of Long Beach Fire Department. He talks about losing his home and his other experiences in Long Beach during and after Hurricane Katrina.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on December 6, 2007 with Kathryn Anne ""Sally"" James. A lifelong Pass Christian resident, Ms. James describes the impact of Hurricane Katrina on her family and the city of Pass Christian, Mississippi.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man dressed as Napoleon descends a staircase toward a living room. He wears a uniform with epaulets, and his hand is tucked inside his jacket. In the upstairs room is a woman...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A traffic officer is directing traffic. A huge traffic light has words on the red ball: "Stop...Carnival parades are on!" A lamp post near the policeman has a sign that reads,...
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 January 21, 2006 with Natalie C. Brown. Miss Brown lived near the Tulane campus during Hurricane Katrina and describes her evacuation and return to the city.
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.; Ms. Eleanora Hayes was born on May 28, 1930, in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. She grew up on her father's farm in Catahoula, Mississippi. During winter months, she and her siblings attended school, and during the six-month...
Oral history.; Mr. George A. Stevens was born in 1910 in Forrest County, Mississippi. He attended Hattiesburg public schools but graduated from high school in Anthony, New Mexico. Mr. Stevens returned to attend The University of Southern...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man and woman sit in their living room, both looking a little dazed. A box of Mardi Gras beads is on the floor between them. On the sofa beside the wife are a Mardi Gras mask...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ronald Reagan sits on a throne on a Mardi Gras float decorated to look like a throne room. He is wearing robes trimmed in fur and holding beads instead of throwing them. The...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man in colonial dress labeled, "N.O." looks into a large kaleidoscope labeled, "250th anniversary." Above the kaleidoscope are the words, "Carnival balls...Carnival...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Mardi Gras balloons are floating in the air above the U.S. Capitol. In the distance is the Washington Monument with a crown at the top. Between the Capitol and the Monument are...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Ed Valtman. Eugene McCarthy is dressed as the Pied Piper and is playing a flute while leading a large group of people who are holding a banner that reads "Dissident Democrats." Other signs in...
Oral history.; Ms. Margaret Keith Andresen was born in Biloxi, Mississippi on May 3, 1943. She attended Perkinston High School and the Perkinston Campus of Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College. As a teacher at Moss Point High School from...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on February 6, 2006 with Vaughn G. Couk. Mr. Couk was a resident of New Orleans who managed restaurants and bars before Hurricane Katrina.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on February 19, 2009 with Dwight Gordon. A firefighter in Pass Christian, Mississippi, Mr. Gordon discusses his experiences during and after Hurricane Katrina.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on July 18, 2006 with Odalee Fair. A resident of New Orleans, Ms. Fair discusses her experiences during and after Hurricane Katrina.
