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.; Interview conducted on October 28, 1993 with Judge Michael L. Carr (born 1920). He moved to Mississippi when he received an appointment to serve as law clerk to Edwin R. Holmes, U.S. circuit judge for the Fifth Circuit Court of...
Oral history.; Mr. Roberts Wilson Jr. was born July 6, 1941, in Rosedale, Mississippi. After attending both Vanderbilt University and the University of Mississippi, he went to Washington. D.C., during the mid 1960s where he worked in the office of...
From the Emilie and Marie Stapp Collection. Amelia Siedler was 10 years when she created this diary documenting her family's move from Iowa to Arkansas in a covered wagon from 28 December 1895 - 27 February 1896.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Bob Taylor. A man labeled "Rocky," (Nelson Rockefeller), wearing a parachute, has just jumped from the side door of a plane labeled "The race." He looks back over his shoulder at the plane and...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eddie Germano. Nelson Rockefeller sits on a large stone labeled "Rocky" in the pose of Rodin's "The thinker." He holds a paper with the words, "Presidential nomination or RFK's New York Senate...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eddie Germano. Richard Nixon is sitting on the side of a steep hill, labeled "Presidential hill," and he is smiling at the view. Behind and above Nixon, resting on his shoulders, is a large...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. Richard Nixon speaks to a journalist (artist Runtz's signature cat) writing on a note pad labeled "Press." Nixon is saying, "...very helpful to have another active candidate." From...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eddie Germano. Republican presidential candidates "Rocky" (Nelson Rockefeller) and "Nixon" (Richard Nixon) are shown from the waist down. Only knee high are two of the vice-presidential...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eddie Germano. Richard Nixon is shown as a schoolboy wearing a uniform of short pants, short sleeved shirt, and necktie. He is in a school room looking at a chalk board with the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Five tall trees are each marked with a letter and together they spell, "Polls." Arrows on the trees are pointing in different directions; some are labeled, "Nixon would run...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Jon Kennedy. Richard Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev are standing on the side of a steep, rocky mountain. At their feet, appearing to have been dropped, is a paper labeled "Big-power settlement."...
cartoon by Ted Martin; A doctor hands a bottle to a man sitting in a chair, and he says, "You'll be Ok Rocky. Just take a shot of this sedative and relax, forget about the White House for today. Lie down but don't cover your ears - let the money...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A woman is riding in a canoe labeled "World's Fair" that is floating down a river. In one hand, she holds an umbrella with "84" and the exposition's river image on it; in her...
From the University of Southern Mississippi Art Museum collection. Oil on canvas painting of a river running through a gorge with reddish colored mountains, by Jack Bartlett.
Yearbook photograph with the caption: "When Bennett [Auditorium] closed during the fall for renovations, the UAC [University Activities Council] had to find an alternate location for its popular movie series. The result -- they rented out the old...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Riedell. Unfinished cartoon on the reverse side of cartoon number 833. An American soldier is climbing a steep, rocky surface labeled "Vietnam" without ropes. He carries his rifle and a...
