A collection of six 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 May 19, 2008 with Laura Clare Thompson Creel. A life-long resident of Biloxi, Mrs. Creel recounts her family history and experience dealing with hurricanes, including Hurricane Katrina.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Vic Runtz. A dove labeled "Peace hopes" carries an olive branch in its beak and stands on a round table in a room while looking up. The table has a sign that reads, "Paris talks" and is...
cartoon by Reg Manning; A scroll of paper labeled "Congressional spending" is animated as a laughing cat. The cat is laughing at a surprised looking little bird marked with a dollar sign that is labeled "President's budgeted surplus".
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Knudsen. Leonid Brezhnev, holding a club and labeled "USSR," is running toward a cat labeled "Czechoslovakia" that is crouched before a bowl of milk labeled "Freedom." Milk drips from the...
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 June 21-22, 2007 with Carter Bise, Chancery Court Judge on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Judge Bise describes his experience in Gulfport 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.; Judge Robin Alfred Midcalf was born November 13, 1961 and grew up in Harrison County. Judge Midcalf married a man who became an abusive husband and at eighteen she divorced, becoming a single parent. She worked to put herself...
From the Marcia Brown Papers. A signed linoleum print of pages 16-17 of DICK WHITTINGTON AND HIS CAT retold and illustrated by Marcia Brown (New York: Scribner, 1950). DICK WHITTINGTON AND HIS CAT is a 1951 Caldecott Honor Book.
From the Marcia Brown Papers. A signed linoleum print of the dust jacket of DICK WHITTINGTON AND HIS CAT retold and illustrated by Marcia Brown (New York: Scribner, 1950). DICK WHITTINGTON AND HIS CAT is a 1951 Caldecott Honor Book.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Vic Runtz. With one hand, Richard Nixon holds a piece of paper labeled "Exchange of visits." With his other hand, he gestures toward an outline of Charles de Gaulle and says, "My friend, the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Vic Runtz. Melvin Laird, running, carries a board labeled "Board to examine role of military" toward the edge of a cliff. There is a gap between this part of the cliff and the other side, on...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Vic Runtz. Gerald Ford is walking to school, bundled up against cold winter weather, carrying his school books. The schoolhouse is in the background. Ford looks over his shoulder at the lamb...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. A sunburned man wearing swim trunks and sandals, and with a dazed or painful expression, stands before a vanity and mirror. The man is labeled "Burning Cyprus question." Heat from...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Vic Runtz. On the globe, people are drawn as groups in the shape of the continents. Some people are shown having fallen off the planet. A banner reads "Scientists claim Earth's population to...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Vic Runtz. Gerald Ford sits at a desk in an office and holds a newspaper with the headline, "Swift changes in leadership: Britain, France, Portugal, W. Germany." Richard Nixon has come through...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. A donkey and an elephant sit on the doorstep of a house in front of a door labeled "Maine." Both are shivering due to conditions of snow and ice despite being dressed in winter...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. A child sits on the front porch of a shack in a snowy scene during winter. To the left of the shack is an inoperable vehicle half-buried in the snow. A second child and a cat (artist...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Vic Runtz. Supreme Court nominee Clement F. Haynsworth, Jr., dressed in a judge's robe, is walking to the top of a flight of steps. At the top step, the base of a column is seen. On the top...
