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 June 6, 2007 with Rita W. Baldwin who managed Loaves and Fishes, an organization that helped Biloxi's homeless, as well as the Coastal Family Health Center. Ms. Baldwin discusses her experiences before and...
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.; An interview conducted on January 31, 1977 with Jimmy Carter Fairley (born 1921). A native of Greene County, Mississippi, Mr. Fairley was active in the civil rights movement at the local, state, and national levels.
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.; An interview conducted on February 22, 2007 with Anne Petty, a retired schoolteacher, who describes hearing about Hurricane Katrina from her hospital bed in Washington and learning of its damage to her home in Pascagoula.
Oral history.; Mrs. Boyd O'Neal Keith was born on July 17, 1918. In childhood, she worked on her family's 328 acre homestead and attended Daisy Vestry High School. Mrs. Keith worked at a wool mill in Hurley, Mississippi, while also farming and...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on June 8, 1976, with Will D. Campbell. Mr. Campbell, born in Amite County, Mississippi, was ordained as a pastor at the age of 17. He first became aware of race relations during time spent in the military, when...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on May 14, 1996 with Frances Thornton Smith (born 1916). In 1971, the year that elementary schools were integrated, Smith volunteered to teach at Fair Elementary School, an African-American school in Pascagoula,...
Oral history.; Interview conducted in the spring of 1995 with Eberta Spinks (born 1914). In 1964, Mrs. Spinks became active in the civil rights movement. She housed civil rights workers in her home, integrated the restaurant of the Pinehurst Hotel...
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...
cartoon by David Simpson; Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir stands in front of the counter of a diner called "Harry's Hash House" A man behind the counter wears a cook's hat and an apron. In his left hand he holds up a plate and says to...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Arthur Henrikson. A woman wearing an apron stands in an open doorway pointing her finger and shouting at Lyndon Johnson, who is behind a desk. The woman holds a newspaper with headlines of...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eddie Germano. Lyndon Johnson is dressed in a kerchief and apron and labeled "Ma Johnson." He is thinking, "Hmm...let's see," and looking at a cabinet with dishes labeled, "Personal aides,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Former Alabama governor George Wallace is wearing an apron and carrying a feather duster. He answers the phone at the governor's desk, with "Gov. Lurleen Wallace" on the name...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A woman wearing a sunbonnet and apron over her clothing is labeled, "Quite contrary." She is patting sweat from her forehead and carrying a water can as she walks out of the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Stampone. A very obese man labeled "10% surtax" sits back from a table and wipes his mouth with the napkin that is tied around his neck. Two bones labeled "Viet war costs" and "Domestic...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Jon Kennedy. Senator J. William Fulbright wears the apron and hat of a grocery store produce section employee. He stands with his back to a huge display of fruit labeled, "Fulbright's...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Doug Sneyd. A man with a protruding beer gut wears an apron labeled "Brew master" over his skimpy tank top and pants. He stands beside a beer barrel while he talks on the phone. He says into...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Jon Kennedy. Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu wears an apron and uses a broom to sweep away water at the shoreline of a beach. A tidal wave labeled "Pressures to end Viet War" has risen...
