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 August 26, 1975 with Mr. Charles Johnson at his home in Jackson, Mississippi. Johnson was born in 1911 in Amory, Mississippi. After receiving a degree in Science from Mississippi State University, he began...
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 August 15, 1978 with Mr. Thomas Y. Minniece. Minniece was born in Meridian, Mississippi on October 9, 1912. He received a BA degree from the University of Texas in 1933 and a law degree from the University of...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on April 16, 1985 with Mr. Thomas Y. Minniece. Minniece was born in Meridian, Mississippi on October 9, 1912. He received a BA degree from the University of Texas in 1933 and a law degree from the University of...
Oral history.; Born on March 28, 1914, Dr. Eleanor Byrd Walters was born in Gunnison, Mississippi. In 1934, she received her B.S. in education from Delta State Teachers College and went on to earn several advanced degrees. From 1934 through 1943...
cartoon by Vic Runtz; Two men sit in a train car. One is wearing a train engineer's uniform, the other one is wearing a train conductor's uniform. The two men together are labeled "Railroad operating unions" A robot labeled "Automation" wears a...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A very tall man dressed in a police uniform and holding a truncheon points to his badge which reads, "N.O. Police." Behind him, much smaller, are buildings of a city skyline....
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Stampone. South Vietnam's Nguyen Cao Ky and Nationalist China's Chiang Kai-shek stand before a giant in army uniform, labeled "U.S.," who is shown from the hips down. Ky, a young man...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by John Knudsen. Henry Kissinger is shown dressed in a Superman costume, walking along a stone path holding a briefcase. He is walking with a woman taller in height who is carrying a shoulder bag...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eddie Germano. Two football players are in the foreground of the cartoon, facing each other on the playing field. The player labeled "Russia" is dressed in an older style uniform and helmet and...
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 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.; Interview conducted on March 7, 1991 with Miss Emma Ruth Corban in her home in Meridian, Mississippi. Corban was born in Fayette, Mississippi, on September 18, 1907. She completed a BA degree in English in 1929 and her Masters...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on February 26, 1974 with Mr. Brodie Crump at his home in Greenville, Mississippi. Crump was born in 1898 in Greenville, Mississippi. After attending Mississippi A&M College, now Mississippi State University,...
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...