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...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on November 20, 1994 with Iva E. Sandifer (born 1918). Ms. Sandifer taught in the Hattiesburg public school system for thirty-one years. She served as secretary for her local NAACP chapter and as president of the...
Oral history.; Mr. Alvin L. Fielder Sr. was born December 7, 1900 in Newton County, Mississippi. Mr. Fielder moved to Meehan Junction, Mississippi in 1913 and remained there until 1918, when he moved to Meridian. In 1918 he was a lumberyard saw...
From the AAEC Editorial Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man sits in front of his television, the screen of which reads, "Sugar Bowl Classic, Georgia vs. Notre Dame." He looks over his shoulder at his wife, who stands at the entrance of the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man is holding a huge trophy cup labeled, "Sugar Bowl Week." From the top of it can be seen a football labeled, "Sugar Bowl Classic" and several papers that read,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. The trophy cup for the 35th Sugar Bowl [January 1, 1969] is shown in the lower portion of the cartoon. Above it are the team mascots for the University of Arkansas (razorback...
cartoon by Eddie Germano; A large man, a "1965 political appointee," rests in his bed while "visions of sugar plums" appear above his head. He hungrily licks his lips as it becomes clear that the "sugar plums" are translated to "jobs" and "money."
Oral history.; An interview conducted on June 28, 2007 with Elizabeth Marks Doolittle, Public Services Librarian at the University of Southern Mississippi, Gulf Park Campus. Ms. Doolittle discusses her experiences during Hurricane Katrina.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on October 24, 1975 with the Honorable O.H. Barnett (born 1902). Mr. Barnett was elected Circuit Court Judge in 1958 and served until 1975. He presided during the civil rights movement in the 1960s, during the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A huge, uniformed football player carrying a football and with "34th Sugar Bowl Classic" on the jersey is rushing for yardage in an indistinct [interior?] environment and has...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on October 22, 2005 with Wendy Frost. A registered nurse from Findlay, Ohio, Ms. Frost was a volunteer with the American Red Cross in South Mississippi following Hurricane Katrina.
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 March 26, 1974 with Rabbi Julian B. Feibelman in his office at the Temple Sinai in New Orleans, Louisiana. Feibelman was born on March 23, 1897 in Jackson, Mississippi. He remained in Jackson for the first...
Oral history.; Albert Lloyd Henderson was born in 1928 as William Eugene Ramsey but was adopted in infancy. When he was thirty-nine years old, he found his birth family, five sisters and two brothers. Mr. Henderson grew up in Monroe, Louisiana. ...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on September 2, 1976 with the Honorable Hervey O. Hicks at his home in Benton, Mississippi. Hicks was born on a farm near Benton, Mississippi, in Yazoo County in 1900. In 1931, he ran a successful campaign for...
Oral history.; Charles C. Jacobs Jr. was born in Greenville, Mississippi, on January 13, 1921. Mr. Jacobs attended the University of Mississippi and returned to its law school after serving as a Marine during World War II. During his career, he was...
