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...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Leonid Brezhnev is dressed as a doctor and has a small badge with hammer and sickle on his shirt. He is in a hospital ward with three beds labeled...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by John Collins. Five of six panels show world leaders reading newspaper headlines of Lyndon Johnson's decision not to seek reelection in 1968. Canada's Lester B. Pearson says, "Those Americans!...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man holding a newspaper is looking back and forth between it and a clock on the wall. The clock face reads, "Election year." The newspaper headlines read, "State of the Union...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ronald Reagan and Tip O’Neill are sitting at desks across from each other, and they are both shouting. Reagan is waving a large “Veto” stamp at O’Neill. A stamp pad is...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by John Stampone. Lyndon Johnson is shown dressed as a colonial Minuteman. Standing on a statue base, he points a long rifle at a man labeled "Fed. [Federal] employee." Thirteen stars surround the...
Photograph of the Southern Arena Theatre (earlier called Southern Arena Playhouse) being moved to a location near the Education and Psychology Building. Theatre professor Gilbert Hartwig listens as another man talks about details of the move....
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 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 William Sandeson. Richard Nixon and Charles de Gaulle are in a dressmaker's studio near two dressmaker's models which have puffed out chests. The models, labeled "Past snubs" and "Ego," are...
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...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. A U.S. flag flies at full mast. In place of the stripes are the words, "New freedom from fear, poverty, disease, ignorance, intolerance, lawlessness." Underneath the flag is a...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Gene Basset. A large group of men stand around an emaciated child that is crawling on its hands and knees. Three men in the front are labeled "U.S.; Britain; France." All the men are covering...
Oral history.; Mr. Boyce Holleman was born on February 26, 1924, in Wiggins, Mississippi. Mr. Holleman enrolled at the Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College in the fall of 1940, but transferred to the University of Mississippi to study law. In...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on November 6, 1979 with Dr. Arthur Lewis, emeritus professor of mathematics, emeritus professor of physics and astronomy, and emeritus Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Mississippi. Lewis...
Oral history.; Dr. Charlotte Siegel Kaplan was born in Sunflower, Mississippi, on August 20, 1920, to Sadie Courland Siegel and Samuel Siegel who had emigrated from Europe at the turn of the twentieth century. In the Delta of Mississippi, the...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on September 20, 1979 with Dr. Dewey Lane at the Robinson Lane Surgical Clinic in Pascagoula, Mississippi. Lane was born on September 27, 1934 in Starkville, Mississippi. He attended Vanderbilt University from...
