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.; 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 January 26, 1993 with Pete Johnson, nephew of Paul B. Johnson Jr., at his home in Madison, Mississippi. Pete Johnson was born on May 12, 1948 in Alexandria, Louisiana. He received his B.S. degree in business...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on May 11, 1982 with Professor N.R. Burger at his residence in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Burger was born on April 7, 1909 in Brookhaven, Mississippi. In 1932, he completed his undergraduate degree from Alcorn...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on October 28 and November 2, 1976 with Professor Charles G. Marx at the University of Southern Mississippi Campus in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Marx was born on November 23, 1932 in McComb, Mississippi. ...
Oral history.; Mr. Wesley C. Webb was born in Biloxi, Mississippi, on April 2, 1938. After his graduation from high school, Mr. Webb entered the Navy, boarding the U.S.S. Helena for Japan. For two years and nine months, Mr. Webb served in the...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on February 21, 1980 with the Honorable George M. Yarbrough at his home. Yarbrough was born on August 15, 1916 at Red Banks, Mississippi. Yarbrough served in the U.S. Army during World War II, achieving the rank...
Oral history.; Mr. Harold Ray Presley was born in Tupelo, Mississippi, on October 5, 1948. In 1968 he was drafted into the Army and served in Vietnam for four years. Mr. Presley married and became the father of two sons and a daughter. Elvis...
From the Margret and Hans Augusto Rey Papers.; Watercolor illustration of cow roping cowboys from H.A. Rey's unpublished book Tit For Tat (1942). 12.5" x 9.5"
cartoon by John Stampone; Four men wearing cowboy attire and white hats stand at a bar. The frame of the mirror behind the bar is labeled "NATO Unity Bar" French President Charles DeGaulle is wearing cowboy attire and a black hat, and is walking...
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...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Ed Valtman. Gamal Abdel Nasser, dressed as a cowboy, rides a camel labeled "UAR." He swings a lasso as he tries to round up other camels, labeled "Algeria, Syria, Jordan, Sudan, Saedi [sic]...
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...
cartoon by S.C. Rawls (Scrawls); Ford is shown standing outside a wrecked race car numbered "76" and labeled "Ford Special." He is wearing a racing suit with state patches on it. He is talking to one of four cowboys standing around the car wearing...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ronald Reagan is dressed as a cowboy, complete with pistols in his gun belt. He spins a large globe. Europe, Middle East, Central America, and the Far East are highlighted. The...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by William Sandeson. In the foreground, two rustlers in cowboy clothing with bandanas over their faces have roped a cow and thrown it to the ground. A campfire is lit nearby, and the rustlers are...
