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.; Born on January 19, 1958, in Greenwood, Mississippi, Jon Levingston grew up in a Jewish family in Cleveland, Mississippi. Mr. Levingston attended a boarding school in Rome, Georgia and then the University of Georgia and the Virginia...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on October 22, 1996 with Mrs. Josephine Clemons Bell (born 1909). Her teaching career in elementary education in the public school of Natchez-Adams County spans twenty-nine and a half years. After retiring in...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man sits at a bar. He has a cigarette in his hand. On the bar are a pack of cigarettes, an empty shot glass with spilled liquor, and a bottle. Ronald Reagan and David Stockman...
cartoon by John Knudsen; A hand holds a marijuana cigarette. The smoke from the cigarette forms into the shape of snakes labeled "Snakes in the grass" The snakes are labeled "Paranoia,"Brain damage,"Impotence," and "Psychosis".
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Knudsen. Uncle Sam is sitting at a table smoking a cigarette. He has removed his coat, his bowtie is unhooked from around his neck, and he holds a pack of cigarettes labeled "Inflation."...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on March 14, 2006 with Penny Dean, Hancock County Board of Supervisors board secretary. Dean discusses her experiences during Hurricane Katrina as well as recovery efforts.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on June 6, 2007 with Rita W. Baldwin who managed Loaves and Fishes, an organization that helped Biloxi's homeless, as well as the Coastal Family Health Center. Ms. Baldwin discusses her experiences before and...
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.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on November 14, 2005. Mr. Jones describes his struggle to survive as Hurricane Katrina struck Gulfport, Mississippi.
Oral history.; Interview conducted on November 1, 1977 with R.B. Layton. Mr. Layton was involved in the Jackson Public Schools as a teacher, a principal, and a curriculum director from the late 1930s to the middle 1970s. Layton was director of...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on June 8, 1976, with Will D. Campbell. Mr. Campbell, born in Amite County, Mississippi, was ordained as a pastor at the age of 17. He first became aware of race relations during time spent in the military, when...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on November 20, 1994 with Iva E. Sandifer (born 1918). Ms. Sandifer taught in the Hattiesburg public school system for thirty-one years. She served as secretary for her local NAACP chapter and as president of the...
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. Two Caucasian female volunteers do paperwork at tables in the back room of COFO-Hattiesburg Project headquarters at 507 Mobile Street in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during Freedom Summer, 1964....
Materials in this collection were donated by William M. Colmer: First accession-1970. Additional information online at: http://www.lib.usm.edu/legacy/archives/m024.htm
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. An elephant poses as a motion picture director, wearing sunglasses, beret, polka dot shirt. The elephant has a cigarette on a long holder in his mouth. He is holding a clapboard...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man labeled "La. municipalities" holds a large cigarette pack labeled "Tobacco tax." Smoke rising from the box is labeled "State dedication tampering." The man looks up with...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A very tall gangster-type character leans against the Washington Monument, his elbow on top of the monument. The gangster is labeled, "Monument to Washington," and he is holding...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A policeman labeled, "Under-staffed police" stands under a night sky with a city skyline in the background. Club in hand, he is watching a man watching in the foreground of the...
cartoon by Ed Valtman; On a rainy street, beneath a street light, a tall, stodgy man carries a brief case labeled "Congressman" He offers to share his umbrella with a scantily clad woman who smokes a cigarette and stands beneath the street light. ...
