Oral history.; Interview conducted on September 10, 1978 with Ms. Sarah Johnson at her home in Greenville, Mississippi. Johnson was born on March 10, 1938 in Charleston, South Carolina. She is an African American woman who has been active on...
Oral history.; Dr. John Paul Quon was born June 11, 1942, in Moorhead, Mississippi. His parents emigrated from China to Mississippi to participate in a family-owned grocery store. Dr. Quon was in the first public school class in Mississippi that...
Photograph of married students with their children at the Shelby Village playground. Also found in Dearly Bought, Deeply Treasured on page 79, and in the October 11, 1946 Student Printz; 4 1/2 x 3 1/2
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Outside an El Salvadoran village, two leftist guerillas hide in the jungle and spy on a deserted village polling place. Voting papers lie scattered on the grouned. One soldier...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. Three military jets are seen flying away from a village which was just bombed. People, houses, and carts are seen in the destruction. The bombed area is labeled, "Delayed admission...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Riedell. Three arms are shown with fingers pointing to the rubble of the Vietnamese village of My Lai. Smoke rises from the village and forms a huge question mark in the sky. The cartoon...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on September 4, 2008 with John Hairston, Chief Executive Officer of Hancock Bank, Gulfport, Mississippi. Mr. Hairston discusses his family history, experience during Hurrican Katrina, and the economic impact...
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.; Angela Georgian was born in Greece in 1920 and emigrated to the United States in 1937. She and her mother and sister joined her father in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, where he had opened a small restaurant, Gus's Caf*. In 1947, Mrs....
Oral history.; Mrs. Janelle McComb was born in Lauderdale County, and moved to Tupelo, Mississippi, when two weeks old. As a child, Mrs. McComb enjoyed the annual Mississippi / Alabama Fair and Dairy Show. She survived the Tupelo tornado in her...
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.; Billie Rossie Tonos was born November 12, 1924, in Shaw, Mississippi, to Nazira Hallal Rossie and Sam Rossie, Americans of Lebanese descent. In May of 1942, she graduated from Shaw High School and enrolled at Delta State Teachers...
Oral history.; Mr. Ray William (Buck) Wells was born August 21, 1916, on a dairy farm three-fourths of a mile southwest of Mississippi Normal College (now The University of Southern Mississippi). Sometime around 1920 or 1921 he moved into...
Photograph of a science class at practical work. The caption reads: "The teacher of science, Mr. Slay, giving a demonstration of farm water works to a section of class. This outfit shows tank, tower, gasoline engine, kitchen sink faucets, and pipe...
cartoon by Eddie Germano; The communist symbol of the sickle and the hammer hovers in "The Ominous Cloud." The word "congo" hovers over the jungle village.
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.; An interview conducted on March 12, 2008 with Teri Eaton. An agent with State Farm Insurance, Mrs. Eaton discusses her experiences during and after Hurricane Katrina.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on August 31, 2009 with David Elliott. A newscaster at WLOX-TV, Mr. Elliott describes his experiences during and after Hurricane Katrina.
