cartoon by Ed Valtman; A group of cowboys are standing around the fence watching a cowboy labeled "stock prices" getting thrown from a wild, bucking bull labeled "Stock Market." A ticker-tape machine by the fence is shown with a worried facial...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on October 25, 1976 with Bert Fells, a Hattiesburg native. Mr. Fells served in the Air Force from 1966 to 1969, including a tour in Vietnam. In 1972, he returned to Mississippi to live and became director of...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on November 16, 1977 with George Rogers (born 1927). Mr. Rogers, a Rhodes Scholar, was elected to the Mississippi House of Representatives, where he served for more than twenty years. He became well known for his...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. Hubert H. Humphrey, dressed in cowboy attire, rides a snorting, bucking donkey, with its hind legs and hindquarters in the air. Beneath the donkey's suspended hind legs is a cloud...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Hubert Humphrey, clothed in Western dress, is trying to ride a bucking donkey that is labeled, "The national party emblem." Humphrey has lost hold of the reins. The donkey's...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. President Richard Nixon is dressed as a cowboy, and he is trying to stay in the saddle aboard a bucking horse. The horse's body (all except head, neck, and four legs) are drawn...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Knudsen. Uncle Sam is trying to ride a bucking horse labeled "Inflation" and asks "How do I get off?"
Oral history.; William G. (Bud) Gray was born in Beat Five, Oktibbeha County, Mississippi, on December 27, 1914. He attended a consolidated school in Crawford, Lowndes County, and high school in Artesia, where he played football. He went to...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 23, 1977 with Mr. Jimmy Swan. Swan was born in Cullman County, Alabama. He ran away from home when he was thirteen or fourteen and ended up in Wayne County, Mississippi. Swan sang in nightclubs 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.; Two interviews conducted on November 12, 1981 and February 6, 1982 with Judge J. P. Coleman. Coleman was born on December 9, 1914 in Fentress, Mississippi. After attending the University of Mississippi, he was invited to work in...
Oral history.; Mr. Roberts Wilson Jr. was born July 6, 1941, in Rosedale, Mississippi. After attending both Vanderbilt University and the University of Mississippi, he went to Washington. D.C., during the mid 1960s where he worked in the office of...
