From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Ed Gamble. Former President Richard Nixon is shown on the left half of the cartoon in a relaxed, outdoor setting. He is talking on the telephone while seated in a chair under a palm tree. He...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Ed Valtman. Secretary of State Cyris Vance is trying to walk a high circus tightrope holding a balancing stick. A large balloon labeled "Hopes for diplomatic relations with Red China" is tied...
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 Ed Valtman. Two dragons stand hip to hip, and they are looking back over their shoulders at each ohter. Each is breathing fire. One dragon has the hammer and sickle symbol on its body, and the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Bob Beckett. At the left side of the cartoon is a Little League baseball player labeled "U.S." who is jumping up and down in happiness. The player holds a baseball bat up in one hand. With his...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on August 2, 2007 and October 9, 2007 with Edmond Boudreaux, Jr., a longtime Mississippi Gulf Coast resident and active local historian of the region. Mr. Boudreaux discusses the impact of Hurricane Katrina on...
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...
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...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on October 13, 1993 with Mr. Kenneth O. Williams at the new state capitol building in Jackson, Mississippi. Williams was born on January 18, 1924 in Clarksdale, Mississippi. He received a BA in political science...
Oral history.; Dr. John Paul Quon was born June 11, 1942, in Moorhead, Mississippi. His parents emigrated from China to Mississippi to participate in a family-owned grocery store. Dr. Quon was in the first public school class in Mississippi that...
Oral history.; Three interviews conducted on April 28, 30 and May 7, 1981 with Mr. Claude Ramsay at his office in Jackson, Mississippi. Ramsay was born in 1916 in Ocean Springs, Mississippi. He served briefly in the Civilian Conservation Corps...
Oral history.; Mr. Terry Allen Broadus was born on October 11, 1938. Mr. Broadus enrolled at Perkinston Agricultural High School in 1952 and later received a baseball scholarship to attend Perkinston Junior College. In the late 1960s, Mr. Broadus...
