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...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on February 21, 2008 with Mark Currier, who describes his experiences during and after Hurricane Katrina on the Mississippi 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...
Copy of a typewritten newsletter, the Mantinband Megillah, from Rabbi Charles and Anna Mantinband to friends dated 1964, in which the Mantinbands discuss their life in Texas. While they return to Mississippi occasionally upon the invitation of...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on November 12, 1981 and February 6, 1982 with Judge J. P. Coleman. Coleman was born on December 9, 1914 in Fentress, Mississippi. After attending the University of Mississippi, he was invited to work in...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 3, 1976 with Dr. William A. Butts at his office on the campus of the University of Southern Mississippi. Butts was born in 1933 near Kilmichael, Mississippi. After graduating high school, he went on to...
Oral history.; Interviews conducted on May 11 and 12, 1992 with James C. Simpson (1930-1994). Simpson was elected to the Mississippi House of Representatives from Harrison County in 1964. He served six more consecutive terms covering more than 20...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Ed Valtman. Vice President Hubert Humphrey smiles at President Lyndon Johnson as he points with thumb to one of many [pudding] splatters on his suit coat. Humphrey says, "...and this was...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by John Riedell. A male Northern cardinal drapes a banner labeled "N.L. pennant" across its nest, which rests on top of the Gateway Arch at St. Louis, Missouri. The St. Louis skyline is seen under...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Jon Kennedy. President Lyndon Johnson, looking dismayed, is portrayed as an automobile mechanic working on the engine of a high performance race car labeled "Lyndon Johnson special." A number...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by William Sandeson. A large white dove labeled "Peace" stands on the perch of a bird's nesting box, which rests on a tree branch. The nest box is labeled "Paris talks." The dove is trying to...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eddie Germano. The Earth is personified with a face, and it is looking up into a cloudy sky. Some of the coulds are labeled, "Paris peace talks." The cartoon caption reads, "Silver lining?"
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eddie Germano. Uncle Sam and a man labeled "Viet Cong" stand by the "Paris peace table." Uncle Sam offers a chair with large tacks labeled "Truth" in the seat to the other man, who is frowning...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eddie Germano. Uncle Sam and a Vietnamese man wearing a "coolie" hat with a hammer and sickle on it are sitting at the "Paris conference table." Each has a stack of papers. The world,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eddie Germano. Uncle Sam sits at a table on which is a paper labeled "Paris talks with Viet Cong." He reacts with pain when he is hit in the back of the neck by a stone thrown from behind him...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Charles de Gaulle is sitting at a desk on top of the globe. On the desk is a crystal ball labeled, "World's problems," and de Gaulle's hands are stretched out toward it. Behind...
