A collection of eight 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...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. This cartoon has six sections. The first has the cartoon caption, "Evolution of the ultimate weapon." The other five sections are numbered and show a mace, a bow and arrow, a...
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of Hercules Powder Company officials in front of the company airplane.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of an aerial view of the Hercules Powder Company plant in Hattiesburg.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of an aerial view of the Hercules Powder Company plant in Hattiesburg.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of an aerial view of the Hercules Powder Company plant in Hattiesburg.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of a display window at the Sears store on Main Street featuring turpentine made by the Hercules Powder Plant.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Three pyramids are shown in this cartoon, set in Egypt, one in the foreground and two in the distance. The near pyramid is flattened on top and on it is a powder keg for a table...
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...
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...
cartoon by John Knudsen; A slick-looking, broad-shouldered man wearing a suit sits on top of a metal barrel labeled "Middle East Powder Keg" In his right arm he cradles an armful of guns and ammunition. With his left hand he holds a picket sign...
Oral history.; Mr. Alvin L. Fielder Sr. was born December 7, 1900 in Newton County, Mississippi. Mr. Fielder moved to Meehan Junction, Mississippi in 1913 and remained there until 1918, when he moved to Meridian. In 1918 he was a lumberyard saw...
Oral history.; Dr. John Paul Quon was born June 11, 1942, in Moorhead, Mississippi. His parents emigrated from China to Mississippi to participate in a family-owned grocery store. Dr. Quon was in the first public school class in Mississippi that...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 7, 1993 with James Nix (born 1937). In 1966, Mr. Nix formed a civil rights activist group called the Spirit. This group agitated for civil rights in Hattiesburg and served as bodyguards for local civil...
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...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on November 1, 1995 with Joe Martin (born 1943). Mr. Martin became inspired by Medgar Evers after hearing him in elementary school. Martin and his Burgland High football friends formed an NAACP youth group. Mr....
