A collection of six 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...
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 Gene Basset. People carrying a sledge hammer, bat, board with nail, paint can, and a flag labeled "Red guards" are walking away from the ruined storefront of the "Peking Book Shop." The window...
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.; Two interviews conducted on February 7 and 21, 1992 with Mr. Thomas Knight Sr. at the University of Southern Mississippi. Knight was born on July 9, 1920 near Hattiesburg, Mississippi. In 1941, he began working at the Reliance...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Polish Solidarity leader Lech Walesa is walking along a sidewalk carrying a large medal labeled "Nobel peace prize," and he is looking over at a pawn shop with large windows. A...
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 September 23, 2009 with Robert Weaver, the Sand Beach Director and Roads Manager for Harrison County, who describes the 2005 hurricane season's destruction across the American South.
Oral history.; Interview conducted on November 11, 1995 with Curtis C. Bryant (born 1917). In 1961, Mr. Bryant and Bob Moses became the catalysts to start the voter registration drive in Mississippi. Bryant was also active in the NAACP and the...
Oral history.; Mrs. Varnell Homan was born on February 5, 1925, in Mooreville, Mississippi. In 1936, the year of Tupelo's worst tornado, she moved to Shannon, Mississippi. In 1942 she married Elkin P. Homan, and they were farmers. To make a...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on December 11, 1974 with Mrs. Lillie Jones at her home in Philadelphia, Mississippi. Jones was born in 1892 in Lauderdale County, Mississippi and soon after her family moved to Neshoba County. She attended a...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on November 16, 1977 with George Rogers (born 1927). Mr. Rogers, a Rhodes Scholar, was elected to the Mississippi House of Representatives, where he served for more than twenty years. He became well known for his...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. A group of African American men walk north under the shop signs of African-American businesses in the 500 block of Mobile Street, across the street from the COFO-Hattiesburg project...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. An African American male teenager in a plastic raincoat walks south under the shop signs of African American businesses in the 500 block of Mobile Street, across the street from...
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of the Burge's Sandwich Shop sign, featuring the menu and and ad for Falstaff beer. Burge's Sandwich Shop was located on Main Street.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of people holding pictures of food and beverages outside of Morris Sandwich Shop on Hardy Street. The shop, owned by Earl R. Morris, included a soda fountain and...
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of people holding pictures of food and beverages outside of Morris Sandwich Shop on Hardy Street. The shop, owned by Earl R. Morris, included a soda fountain and...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. New Orleans Mayor Ernest Morial is standing before a shop with a sign above it labeled, “Swap Shoppe.” A grandfather’s clock is in the window, but not standing straight up...