From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man labeled "City Council" leans on his desk or a counter, chin in one hand and holding a pencil in the other. The man's expression shows dismay or uncertainty. The man wears...
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...
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...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Knudsen. A very battered dove labeled "Christmas truce" wears a sling labeled "79 violations" and walks with a crutch. Its neck is twisted into a knot, and it is bandaged all over its...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Stampone. A soldier is on his hands and knees, acting as the fulcrum for a balanced lever (seesaw) being ridden by two overweight men. The seesaw is labeled "Election year results." One...
From the AAEC Editorial Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A witch flies on a giant broom above buildings of New Orleans, with a huge moon in the background. Billboards and placards on the buildings are political advertisements for local...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Report by the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) describing the progress made in Sunflower County, Mississippi, with regard to the decision of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals...
From the AAEC Editorial Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man sits in front of his television, the screen of which reads, "Sugar Bowl Classic, Georgia vs. Notre Dame." He looks over his shoulder at his wife, who stands at the entrance of the...
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...
Photograph of registration. The caption reads, "Registration is hel...d over every year." This photograph is featured in the 1964 Southerner yearbook on page 60; 8 x 3
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A classroom desk is in the foreground and on top are two books, one labeled "Public education in La.," a gum eraser and a ruler. Seen in the background are a cork board with...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ronald Reagan carries a large cake on a platter in one hand as he walks on the descending line of a graph. The graph line is labeled "The economy," and the cake is labeled "One...
From Mrs. W's 1901 Diary. Mrs. W.'s diary paints a vivid portrait of the daily life of a middle class homemaker in 1901, and constitutes a daily account of the author's activities from April 1 - August 7, 1901.Very little biographical or historical...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on October 10, 2005 with Emma West, a retired resident of Gulfport who describes surviving Hurricane Katrina's floodwaters and dealing with the day-to-day struggles of the storm's aftermath.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on September 23, 2009 with Robert Weaver, the Sand Beach Director and Roads Manager for Harrison County, who describes the 2005 hurricane season's destruction across the American South.
Transcribed copy of a paper about racism in Mississippi during the 1960s. Follows the tribulations of college students who volunteered to register African Americans to vote during Freedom Summer. With regard to racism and white supremacy,...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on February 19, 2009 with John Dubuisson, Chief of Police in Pass Christian, Mississipi. Mr. Dubuisson discusses his experiences during and after Hurricane Katrina.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on June 21-22, 2007 with Carter Bise, Chancery Court Judge on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Judge Bise describes his experience in Gulfport during and after Hurricane Katrina.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on June 18, 2007 with Margaret Alfonso, the Senior Chancery Court Judge for Hancock, Harrison, and Stone counties. She discusses her experience with Hurricane Katrina on the Gulf Coast.
