Oral history.; An interview conducted on May 19, 2008 with David Baria, a resident of Bay St. Louis during Hurricane Katrina. He describes his experience before, during, and after the storm.
Oral history.; Mr. Sank Powe was born in the Delta in Elizabeth, Mississippi, on April 20, 1942. Growing up, Mr. Powe often worked in the cotton fields for meager wages. Mr. Powe attended Mound Bayou High School, Jackson State University and Delta...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on June 24, 1998 with J.C. Fairley, Mamie Phillips, and Charles Phillips, who were all active in the NAACP during the civil rights movement of the 1950s and the 1960s.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man in a baseball uniform is up to bat, and he is sweating nervously. The man is labeled "Legislature" and holds a bat labeled "Individual batting average." Home plate is in...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on February 19, 2009 with George Bass, Chief of Long Beach Fire Department. He talks about losing his home and his other experiences in Long Beach during and after Hurricane Katrina.
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.; Tommie Dukes Sr. was born in 1906 in Richardson, Mississippi, a town that no longer exists. Mr. Dukes played baseball at Alcorn College and then played for semi-pro and Negro League teams. Among other teams, he played for the Memphis...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on October 28 and November 2, 1976 with Professor Charles G. Marx at the University of Southern Mississippi Campus in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Marx was born on November 23, 1932 in McComb, Mississippi. ...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on October 25, 1993 with Mrs. Raylawni Branch. Branch was born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, in 1941. After graduating from high school, she married and had three children. In 1965, Branch attended USM for one...
Running summary of various incidents that occurred during the Mississippi Freedom Project, Summer 1964. Organized chronologically, each entry gives the city and the incident. Includes instances of harassment, hostility, and violence against civil...
From the AAEC Editorial Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Louisiana governor Dave Treen and former governor Edwin Edwards are dressed in baseball uniforms and stand facing each other on a baseball field. A large scoreboard is between them in...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Central Intelligence Agency director William J. Casey, dressed as a baseball player, is ducking balls labeled, "Questionable business deals" and "Libyan plot."
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A baseball player labeled, "UF" [United Fund?] is holding a giant baseball bat that reads, "$3,931,614 already brought in,"and he is standing at home plate that reads, "$550,386...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by John Collins. An elephant labeled "Nixon doctrine" has encircled Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau with its trunk, and Trudeau has dropped the maple leaf he was holding. The elephant's...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by John Riedell. A baseball bat labeled "Senators" is held at the side of a baseball player (drawn from the waist down). Two mangled baseballs labeled "Carswell" and "Haynesworth" [sic] are on the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Bob Beckett. At the left side of the cartoon is a Little League baseball player labeled "U.S." who is jumping up and down in happiness. The player holds a baseball bat up in one hand. With his...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Gene Basset. People carrying a sledge hammer, bat, board with nail, paint can, and a flag labeled "Red guards" are walking away from the ruined storefront of the "Peking Book Shop." The window...
