Oral history.; An interview conducted on August 2, 2007 and October 9, 2007 with Charles Benvenutti, a CPA in Bay St. Louis, MS. He describes his experience during and after Hurricane Katrina.
A Bill: To be entitled, "An Act to exempt from taxation loans made on hypothecation of non-taxable bonds." By Mr. Lyon, from Committee on Ways and Means; Read first and second times, made special order, and ordered to be printed by the Congress of...
A Bill: To be entitled, "An Act to exempt from taxation the capitol of bonds and certificates issued by the Confederate States." By Mr. Lyon, from Committee on Ways and Means; Read first and second times, made special order, and ordered to be...
An Act: To reduce the currency and to authorize a new issue of notes and bonds. Enacted by the Congress of the Confederate States of America on 17 February 1864.
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...
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...
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 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.; Interview conducted on March 7, 1993 with James Nix (born 1937). In 1966, Mr. Nix formed a civil rights activist group called the Spirit. This group agitated for civil rights in Hattiesburg and served as bodyguards for local civil...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on February 27, 1991 in the city hall of Corinth, Mississippi with Mayor Edward S. Bishop, Sr. Bishop was born in Starkville, Mississippi on December 11, 1907. In 1926, he completed high school at Jackson...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by John Stampone. Lyndon Johnson is shown dressed as a colonial Minuteman. Standing on a statue base, he points a long rifle at a man labeled "Fed. [Federal] employee." Thirteen stars surround the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man is driving a car toward a large intersection on the Earth. The man is labeled, "N.O. property owner voters," and the car is labeled, "$20 million bond election tomorrow,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man labeled "Jeff officials" holds a newspaper in his hand with the headline, "Drainage bonds pass." Buildings are in the background. The man is speaking to an elderly man...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man labeled "Jeff Voter" poses as "The Thinker" and is half-submerged in water. A fish swims nearby, and a sign on the wall reads, "May 17 drainage bond issue."
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Two men are on a girder that is suspended from above by a wire and large hook. The girder is labeled, "State building programs" and is not flat but tilted up on one end. The man...
From the AAEC Editorial Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Two men in business suits labeled "Commercial lenders" look at the signs of fast food shops that read "Ice cream 50 flavors...Kwicki-food...Burger beautiful." One man says to the other,...
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs; Photograph of school children marching with "Buy War Bonds" banners in the Sixth War Bonds parade on Main Street in downtown Hattiesburg; 10 x 8
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Fund raising information sheet on the Mississippi Bail Loan Fund, explaining the need for bail funds for civil rights workers in Mississippi, who are subjected to repeated arrest and confinement...
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) taken at a parade for the 8th Victory War Loan drive for World War II.
