From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ronald Reagan, wearing swim trunks, is sitting outdoors under a bright sun. He is in a beach chair before a table which holds a typewriter, and he is typing. Paper in the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Jimmy Carter stands alongside a highway full of moving cars and trucks that are emitting clouds of exhaust labeled, "Oil supplies." The sign over the highway reads "Summer" and...
Oral history.; Judge John H. Whitfield was born in Gulfport, Mississippi, on July 4, 1962. Prior to integration of the schools, Judge Whitfield attended Nichols Perkins Elementary School in Biloxi until 1973. When Mississippi public schools in...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Richard Locher. In the backbround of the cartoon is a man in a canoe on a lake; he is holding a fishing rod with a broken line. Nearby are a woman and child on a dock. In the foreground,...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on June 12, 2007 and February 20, 2008 with Robert Gavagnie. A descendent of some of the first settlers on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, Mr. Gavagnie discusses his experiences as Chief of the Bay St. Louis...
Oral history.; Dr. S. Jay McDuffie was born in Nettleton, Mississippi, and grew up in Tupelo. He earned a B.S. degree at Mississippi State University, entered the U.S. Public Health Service during World War II and later earned his medical...