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 Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of an aerial view of the Beverly Drive-In movie theater taken by Robert Waller; circa 1950s.
From the AAEC Editorial Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A show poster outside a theater advertises "Britain and Argentina in Falklands forever mine--a smash." A theater employee is shouting, "Last chance to see a genuine 19th century war!"...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man stands in the ticket booth of the Capitol movie theater on the corner of a city street. The Louisiana state house is in the background. The marquee is labeled, “David...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. On a large poster (side of a building?) are two theatre masks. Instead of the smiling face of comedy and crying face of tragedy, there are two crying faces. A man in colonial...
Photograph of the Southern Arena Theatre (earlier called Southern Arena Playhouse) being moved to a location near the Education and Psychology Building. Theatre professor Gilbert Hartwig listens as another man talks about details of the move....
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of the outside of the Dome Theater on Hardy Street for the Hadacol show. The Three Daring Daughters cartoon is on the marquee.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of the Hadacol show at the Dome Theater on Hardy Street. A Santa Clause and girl with a bicycle stand near a banner for the WFOR radio station.
From the Southern Tourism Collection. A paper of the Heritage Tour Committee at Saenger Center. It states that there is a museum that will be open in two rooms of the Saenger Theatre.
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...
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...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. The buildings all around a movie theater have been destroyed by rockets and bombs. Rubble is piled up, and the air is filled with planes and bullets. The marquee reads,...
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...
Oral history.; Mr. Boyce Holleman was born on February 26, 1924, in Wiggins, Mississippi. Mr. Holleman enrolled at the Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College in the fall of 1940, but transferred to the University of Mississippi to study law. In...
Oral history.; Mr. George A. Stevens was born in 1910 in Forrest County, Mississippi. He attended Hattiesburg public schools but graduated from high school in Anthony, New Mexico. Mr. Stevens returned to attend The University of Southern...
Oral history.; Born in 1947, Dr. Story was graduated from Mississippi Valley State University in 1969 where he earned a B.S.; he earned an M.Ed. from Delta State University. During his varied career he has been a sharecropper, a public school...
Oral history.; Mrs. Geraldine (Gerry) Blessey was born in Biloxi, Mississippi, on April 16, 1922. Mrs. Blessey is a member of the Biloxi Council of Garden Clubs, the Biloxi Bay Chamber of Commerce, the Gulf Coast Symphony Guild, and the Maritime...
