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 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.; An interview conducted on August 30, 1978 with Thomas Jefferson Tubb (born 1899). Mr. Tubb served as chairman of the Clay County Executive Committee for 47 years from 1928 to 1975 and during the Dixiecrat movement from 1950 to 1956....
Photograph of President Aubrey Lucas and Alumni Association director Powell Ogletree with the 75th anniversary birthday cake. Also found in the 1988 Southerner yearbook on page 28.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. A nervous looking man labeled "Congress" stands in front of the Capitol building, looking up at the dome, and yells "Careful!" A giant-sized hand labeled, "Proposed Adam Clayton...
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...
Oral history.; Kathleen (Kat) Bergeron was born on April 23, 1950. She attended Gulfport East High School and the W. Page Pitt School of Journalism at Marshal University in Huntington, West Virginia. From 1995 to 1996, Ms. Bergeron attended...
Photograph featuring J.R. Switzer, Dean of Student Affairs; C.O. Smalling, Financial Secretary; Powell Ogletree, Alumni Secretary; and University President William McCain.
