Oral history.; Interview conducted on August 12, 1977 with Edward L. McDaniel (born 1934). Mr. McDaniel was instrumental in organizing the Ku Klux Klan in 1962 in Mississippi as the Grand Kleagle for the whole state. He started a state Klan in...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on September 17, 1980 with the Honorable Tony Byrne, former mayor of Natchez, Mississippi at his office in the Natchez City Hall. Byrne was born on May 18, 1936 in Natchez, Mississippi. He attended Mississippi...
Oral history.; Interviews conducted on May 11 and 12, 1992 with James C. Simpson (1930-1994). Simpson was elected to the Mississippi House of Representatives from Harrison County in 1964. He served six more consecutive terms covering more than 20...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on March 22, 1979 with Eddie Carthan (born 1949). Mr. Carthan taught school at Durant Attendance Center and at Saints College in Lexington, Mississippi, and has owned and operated several businesses in Tchula,...
Oral history.; Three interviews conducted on April 28, 30 and May 7, 1981 with Mr. Claude Ramsay at his office in Jackson, Mississippi. Ramsay was born in 1916 in Ocean Springs, Mississippi. He served briefly in the Civilian Conservation Corps...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Stampone. Uncle Sam watches with dismay as George McGovern and Eugene McCarthy, both with feathered wings strapped to their shoulders, stand poised to jump off the edge of a high cliff...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Ed Valtman. Richard Nixon is shown as a king, dressed in royal robes trimmed in ermine. He is holding a sceptre and wearing a large crown. He is a small figure standing on a low cliff at the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Uncle Sam is driving a car labeled "U.S." at high speed down the unprotected road that is descending around a cliff. He passes a sign with "Caution" and a sharply curving arrow....
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Louisiana governor John McKeithen, wearing mountaineering clothing, has a coil of rope attached to his belt. He is standing at the edge of a cliff, facing away from the edge,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher; A drug pusher in a car labeled, "Drug traffic," is about to nudge a young child labeled "Our youth" over a cliff. A long arm, labeled, "Beefing up of state's narcotic division,"...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher; Reagan and Congress sit on the porch of their, "Honeymoon Cottage," and look at a boulder situated precariously on the edge of the cliff above their heads. The boulder is...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eddie Germano. Robert Kennedy is trying to climb a steep cliff, but he has lost his hold. With his left hand, he clutches a tree branch labeled "Oregon," and his right hand cannot quite reach...
cartoon by Reg Manning; A man sits at the base of two round, towering cliffs. He holds a pot over a fire, and he has pitched a tent-shack labeled "Shortage of new housing" behind him. A house labeled "The poor" sits on top of one of the cliffs...
cartoon by Allen Johnson; Two cars speed dangerously along a road that skirts the edge of a cliff. The first car is labeled "Technology" and transports test tubes and other objects that would typically be found in a laboratory. The second car,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ronald Reagan is driving a trolley and ringing the bell. The trolley is labeled "National transit systems" on its side, and the sign on the front is "Budget cut-backs." The...
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.; 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.; An interview conducted on November 14, 2005. Mr. Jones describes his struggle to survive as Hurricane Katrina struck Gulfport, Mississippi.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on June 18, 1980 with Charles Hudson Griffin (born 1926). Griffin served in the office of U. S. Congressman John Bell Williams until 1968 when he campaigned for the position himself. He served three terms...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on August 21, 1972 with the Honorable Russell C. Davis in his office in Jackson, Mississippi. He was born in Rockville, Maryland. After completing two years at the University of Maryland, Davis took employment...
