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...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Hy Rosen. Leonid Brezhnev stands on the 1st place platform of an Olympic-style awards podium wearing a medal labeled "50% more land-based missiles." An arm with a spike collar on the wrist...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eddie Germano. A man and a woman are walking past the United Nations Building and its lineup of national flags. They look up at a new skyscraper in New York, and they appear surprised to see...
Photograph of a Southern Miss basketball player (No. 23) holding up a banner at the National Invitation Tournament. The banner is gold with black letters and reads: "Southern Mississippi 1987 NIT champions." The crowd of fans is seen in the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Hy Rosen. A man wearing Middle Eastern/Arabic-style clothing labeled "O.P.E.C." dangles a bone labeled, "Oil price cut stories" in front of a dog with its head drawn to look like a sphere...
Photograph of Casey Fisher, captain of the Golden Eagles basketball team. During the 1987 NIT championship, Fisher set a school record for career assists and entered the 1000 point club. Also featured in Chester W. Morgan's book, Dearly bought,...
From the Margret and Hans Augusto Rey Papers.; Watercolor illustration of the Man in the Yellow Hat in the jungle from H.A. Rey's Curious George (1941), which was inscribed "to Lena Y. de Grummond" in May, 1972. 8.5" x 10.5"
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Ed Valtman. Beneath a large sign with the words "Madison Square Garden...Democratic Convention," Jimmy Carter walks on a wide carpet which is being unrolled by four men (Edward Kennedy, Morris...
From the Donald Elmer Lawson Papers.; A photograph of Don Lawson at the first USM Book Festival in 1968. Also pictured are: Adelaide Holl, Berthe Amoss, Jane de Grummond, Alice Cooper Bailey, and Lena Y. de Grummond; 8 x 10
Photograph of the March 31, 1987, article in Student printz about the National Invitation Tournament basketball victory over La Salle University. The headline reads, "Eagle fever riding high."
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Men fill the front row seats of a theater. They are labeled with names of cities that are tourist destinations: "San Francisco...Los Angeles...Miami-Miami Beach...Denver...New...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Richard Locher. A man is sitting on a stool a bar. He says to the barkeeper, "Gimme a New York disaster." The bartender, who is drying glasses, says, "A what?" The man replies, "Manhattan on...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Jimmy Carter, as the Statue of Liberty, smiles and watches as a Soviet ship labeled, "Red star," steams by in New York harbor. The ship has a flag with a hammer and sickle...
