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 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...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on July 28, 1981 with Reverend Clinton Collier at the Methodist Church in Morton, Mississippi. Collier was born on August 24, 1910 [i.e. 1909] in rural Neshoba County. After completing the eighth grade, which...
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.
Oral history.; Ms. Eleanora Hayes was born on May 28, 1930, in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. She grew up on her father's farm in Catahoula, Mississippi. During winter months, she and her siblings attended school, and during the six-month...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by John Riedell. Lady Justice, blindfolded, holds her sword upright in one hand and scales in the other. The scales are labeled, "Area" and "Pop." (population) and are uneven. Supreme Court Chief...
Oral history.; An interview with Michael Hewes conducted on December 29, 2006. Hewes discusses his preparations before, and his experience during, and cleanup and recovery efforts after Hurricane Katrina in Gulfport, Mississippi.
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.; Interview conducted on July 7, 1993 with Ken Fairly, a Mississippi law enforcement officer and journalist. Fairly was born on February 18, 1928 in Hazlehurst, Mississippi. Now retired, he had two careers: one as a journalist and...
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 Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by John Stampone. Lyndon Johnson stands listening to a man labeled "Congress." Johnson holds a piece of paper in one hand with the heading "State of the Union" and on it are the words,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Richard Wallmeyer. A dove carrying an olive branch in its beak coughs as it flies past mushroom clouds of smoke labeled "Inflammatory rhetoric." The clouds have been generated from the bodies...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Apollo 8 flies through space on its way from Earth to the moon. Many planets and other celestial bodies are shown against the expanse of space. In the upper foreground is a...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. A field with large holes is strewn with human bodies and smoking debris. A sign (picturing bullets and a falling bomb) drawn to resemble an opened seed package reads,"Armaments for...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Charlie Daniel. The heads and upper bodies of Henry Kissinger and King Faisal of Saudi Arabia are shown facing each other. Kissinger says, "Now about foreign aid..." and King Faisal says, "How...
cartoon by John Knudsen; A very large hourglass is standing in a living room. Instead of sand, the hourglass is filled with human skulls and bodies and is labeled "Biafra starvation, 6,000 deaths a day" A man reclines in front of a TV as he reads...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on October 21, 1996 with Mr. Charles Cobb (born 1943) in Washington, D.C. In the summer of 1962, he was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) field secretary in Ruleville, Mississippi, where he and...
A collection of ten 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 February 6, 2006 with Vaughn G. Couk. Mr. Couk was a resident of New Orleans who managed restaurants and bars before Hurricane Katrina.
