Oral history.; Interview conducted on 06-11-1981 with Mr. Wilson Evans II (born 1924). Evans began his long career as a union leader in Gulfport in 1950, later becoming president of the union. This interview covers topics as diverse as his service...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. A bowling ball labeled "Action at GM" has hit and scattered a set of pins labeled "Related industries." Dollar signs radiate from the strike zone. Runtz's signature cat peers into...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eddie Germano. A statue of Charles de Gaulle stands on a pedestal. Two men swing large stone hammers at the legs of the statue. The hammers are labeled "French unrest" and "Strikes." Two birds...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Reg Manning. Uncle Sam is sitting up in a hospital bed in a semi-private room. A thermometer labeled "Political fever" is in his mouth, and an icepack labeled "Energy headaches" is on his head....
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.; Two interviews conducted on June 18, 1992 and March 9, 1993 with Mr. C.B. "Buddie" Newman at his home in Valley Park, Mississippi. Newman was born on May 8, 1921 in Valley Park, Mississippi. In 1942, he left his job with the Southern...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Report describing the beginning of the Mississippi Freedom Labor Union (MFLU), which was founded in Shaw, Mississippi, to work for higher wages for cotton choppers and truck drivers. ...
Materials in this collection were donated by William M. Colmer: First accession-1970. Additional information online at: http://www.lib.usm.edu/legacy/archives/m024.htm
From the AAEC Editorial Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A large bear with the hammer and sickle symbol on its chest growls angrily as, with one front leg, it swats at and strikes a commercial airliner [KAL 007]. The airplane is falling out...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. The cartoon is divided in the center by a vertical line and a sign with "Poland's border." On the left side, a man labeled "Independent union movement" holds a sign that reads,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. This cartoon is in two panels. On the left side, a man relaxes in a lawn chair and reads a book in front of his home, the roof of which is labeled, "La. property tax...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man sits in a chair in his living room, holding a beverage can. He is watching a television that shows only a large hour glass with sand. His wife is in the doorway, and she...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Three men sit at a table in an office with large glass windows. Name plates on the table identify the men as "Players...Mediator...Owners," and "Players" is wearing a shirt with...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A young boy is fishing from a pier. In the background is a building with a sign that reads "Jeff Parish." The cartoon caption reads, “With talk of a teacher strike, school...
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 Eldon Pletcher. An arm labeled, "Jeff teacher strike," holds a pocket watch suspended from a chain. The pocket watch, with hands showing a minute before 12:00, is being swung from left to right...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A television shows a baseball umpire holding a paper that reads, "Baseball strike ends." It also shows a football player, labeled "Football season," rushing across the screen,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man labeled "School board" and a woman who has dropped her protest sign are pulling at the arms of a school child, who is stretched between them. The protest sign reads,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A baseball player stands in front of an empty stadium. Stadium concession signs read, "Frank's hot dogs" and "Mom's apple pies." The baseball player holds a sign that reads, "No...
