From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. The Louisiana capitol building has instead of a door the mouth of a cave. A man sitting at the entrance wears skins and has a club nearby. He holds a sign that reads, "Problems...
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 July 28, 1981 with Reverend Clinton Collier at the Methodist Church in Morton, Mississippi. Collier was born on August 24, 1910 [i.e. 1909] in rural Neshoba County. After completing the eighth grade, which...
Oral history.; The family of Dr. Isaac Thomas moved to Hattiesburg from Beaumont, Perry County, Mississippi, in 1935. He entered Eureka High School that year, graduating in 1938, one of a class of thirty three. Dr. Thomas stresses how important...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ronald Reagan is driving a trolley and ringing the bell. The trolley is labeled "National transit systems" on its side, and the sign on the front is "Budget cut-backs." The...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on August 20, 1997 and August 28, 1997 with Peter H. Stewart (born 1934). He began teaching school in Edwards, Mississippi, in the fall of 1961. In August 1969, he worked for Friends of Children, a Head Start...
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of an H & L Delivery Service truck in front of the H & L Delivery Service motor freigt terminal on Laurel Avenue.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of an H & L Delivery Service truck in front of the H & L Delivery Service motor freight terminal on Laurel Avenue.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of an H & L Delivery Service truck in front of the H & L Delivery Service motor freigt terminal on Laurel Avenue.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of an H & L Delivery Service Mayflower moving van in front of the H & L Delivery Service motor freigt terminal on Laurel Avenue.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of an H & L Delivery Service truck in front of the H & L Delivery Service motor freight terminal on Laurel Avenue.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of an H & L Delivery Service truck in front of the H & L Delivery Service motor freight terminal on Laurel Avenue.
Oral history.; Mr. Alton G. Bankston was born outside of Laurel, Mississippi on June 5, 1941. Mr. Bankston majored in political science and history at Jones County Junior College and attended the University of Southern Mississippi. In 1963 he...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on November 16, 1977 with George Rogers (born 1927). Mr. Rogers, a Rhodes Scholar, was elected to the Mississippi House of Representatives, where he served for more than twenty years. He became well known for his...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 24, 1981 with Mr. Dave L. Dunaway at his office in Greenville, Mississippi. Dunaway was born on January 2, 1927 near the Enon community in Walthall County, Mississippi. Following his discharge from the...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on May 11, 1982 with Professor N.R. Burger at his residence in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Burger was born on April 7, 1909 in Brookhaven, Mississippi. In 1932, he completed his undergraduate degree from Alcorn...