Oral history.; An interview conducted on June 18, 2007 with Margaret Alfonso, the Senior Chancery Court Judge for Hancock, Harrison, and Stone counties. She discusses her experience with Hurricane Katrina on the Gulf Coast.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on May 14, 2008 with Robert E. Bass, Jr. (born 1955). Mr. Bass earned degrees from Mississippi State University and the University of Mississippi Law School. He has served in many civic capacities, including...
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...
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.; Mr. Eric Eugene Dickey was born May 7, 1966, in Biloxi, Mississippi, where his grandparents and Head Start exerted positive influences in his early life. In elementary school band, Mr. Dickey began playing trumpet, and later...
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....
Oral history.; Interview conducted on June 9, 1977 with the Honorable Herman B. DeCell in his office in Yazoo City, Mississippi. DeCell enrolled at the University of Mississippi but with the start of World War II, he was called to service. After...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. In the foreground of the cartoon is an office desk with a blotter and name plate that reads, "Job of Angola warden." A sign tacked to the front of the desk reads, "Help wanted:...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; The proposal discusses the symptoms and needs of civil rights workers who have been on the front lines in the South. The author feels that the shock of civil rights work on individuals would be...
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of a ceremony for the Cattle for Greece on the Hattiesburg Victory. The voyage was part of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration and the Heifer...
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of a ceremony for the Cattle for Greece on the Hattiesburg Victory. The voyage was part of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration and the Heifer...
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of cargo being loaded onto the ship Hattiesburg Victory. The voyage was part of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration and the Heifer Project,...
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of cargo being loaded onto the ship Hattiesburg Victory. The voyage was part of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration and the Heifer Project,...
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of hay being loaded onto the ship Hattiesburg Victory. The voyage was part of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration and the Heifer Project,...
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of the ship Hattiesburg Victory. The voyage was part of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration and the Heifer Project, donating cattle and...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on August 25, 1971 with Erskine Caldwell (1903-1987). Mr. Caldwell was a prominent American author whose works include Tobacco Road, (1932) and God's Little Acre (1933).
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 March 22, 1979 with Eddie Carthan (born 1949). Mr. Carthan taught school at Durant Attendance Center and at Saints College in Lexington, Mississippi, and has owned and operated several businesses in Tchula,...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on January 23, 1973 with Mr. William Dukes in his office in Gulfport, Mississippi. Dukes was born in the Sullivans' Hollow area near Raleigh, in Smith County, Mississippi on January 15, 1927. After his discharge...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on May 11, 1977 with the Honorable Horace Buckley at his home in Jackson, Mississippi. Buckley was born on July 14, 1941 in Jackson, Mississippi. He obtained his undergraduate degree from Mississippi Valley...
