Oral history.; An interview conducted on July 16, 2007 with Angelia Gray, a food and beverage director at a Hattiesburg hotel. She describes her experiences during and after Hurricane Katrina at home and at work in Hattiesburg, MS.
Oral history.; Mr. John Sherman Crubaugh was born April 12, 1913. During his college years at Mississippi State, from 1931, he worked to pay for his education. After he received a B.S. degree and an M.Ed. degree from Mississippi State University,...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on August 12, 1977 with Edward L. McDaniel (born 1934). Mr. McDaniel was instrumental in organizing the Ku Klux Klan in 1962 in Mississippi as the Grand Kleagle for the whole state. He started a state Klan in...
Oral history.; Judge Robin Alfred Midcalf was born November 13, 1961 and grew up in Harrison County. Judge Midcalf married a man who became an abusive husband and at eighteen she divorced, becoming a single parent. She worked to put herself...
Oral history.; Discusses Murchison's time spent in the United States Army. Particularly focuses on his participation in the Vietnamese Conflict. During that time, Murchison served both as an adviser and in an actual unit. He received a number of...
Oral history.; Interview conducted with Dr. Michael Smith, a professor of criminal justice at the University of Southern Mississippi and a journalist during the 1960s. Smith was born in 1942 in Waterloo, Iowa. After his family's move to Jackson,...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on June 10, 1994 with Fred Clark Sr. (born 1943). Mr. Clark grew up in the segregated society of Jackson, Mississippi. He was educated in Jackson, attending Smith Robertson Elementary School, Rowan Junior High,...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on May 8, 1971 with the Honorable Ross Robert Barnett in Jackson, Mississippi. Barnett was born on January 22, 1898 in Leake County, Mississippi. He graduated with his B.A. from Mississippi College in 1924. In...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on July 25, 1991 with Mr. Maurice Black at his home near North Carrollton, Mississippi. Black was born on October 18, 1915, near Flora, Mississippi, in Madison County. After graduating from Hinds Junior College...
Oral history.; Ann Spivey Bishop Ruscoe was born in 1923 in Cleveland, Mississippi. She was graduated from Cleveland High School in 1941. She was Salutatorian, OAR Good Citizenship Girl, and won the Senior Award. After attending Delta State...
Oral history.; The Honorable Frank D. Barber was born on April 2, 1929, in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Barber attended the University of Mississippi for a year before volunteering for the U.S. Army which involved National Guard work in the U.S. and...
Photocopy of a two-page typed letter, dated June 30, [1964], from Nancy Ellin to "Dr. and Mrs. Ellin [Joe's parents]." The letter was written a few days after Nancy and Joe reached Hattiesburg and describes the people and living conditions in the...
Transcribed copy of a list of suggestions for teaching methods for teachers in the Mississippi Freedom Project. Suggestions include an emphasis on teaching the students to clearly express their ideas as opposed to an emphasis on grammar and...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. A man holding a picket sign labeled "Bring down imports" sits on one end of the lever of a see-saw, holding his end down on the ground. The other end of the see-saw has a box labeled...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Two huge grouper are hanging from large hooks (from ropes tied around the tails). They are labeled "Smuggling" and "Ring." A man with rod and reel is labeled "Fed. undercover...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Charles de Gaulle is driving in a car on the top of the glove, labeled, "Controversial positions on everything under the sun." A nearby signpost is labeled, "Algiers' Gen. de...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Stampone. Two North Vietnamese soldiers are shown in the outdoors talking to one another. One holds a newspaper with the headline, "U.S. plans 50% cut of forces in Vietnam by '71." The...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eddie Germano. Lyndon Johnson, dressed in working ranch attire (jeans, shirt, boots, bandana, and Stetson hat), stands next to Lady Bird Johnson with his inaugural address in his hand. Mrs....
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eddie Germano. A cartoonist is shown working at the drafting table, pen in hand, with question marks surrounding his head. The faces of three past presidents (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, John F....
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eddie Germano. Lyndon Johnson and a donkey sit next to each other in rocking chairs. Johnson's chair sports a U.S. seal. The donkey is bandaged and has an arm (upper leg) in a sling. Stars...
