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...
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...
cartoon by Arthur Henrikson; The scene depicts a day at the beach."Organized crime" is shown as an octopus, and this octopus is in pain. A man symbolizing "Crime Commission hearings" bites a sandwich with one of the octopus' arms in it.
Oral history.; Interview conducted on May 11, 1977 with the Honorable Horace Buckley at his home in Jackson, Mississippi. Buckley was born on July 14, 1941 in Jackson, Mississippi. He obtained his undergraduate degree from Mississippi Valley...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on June 18, 1992 and March 9, 1993 with Mr. C.B. "Buddie" Newman at his home in Valley Park, Mississippi. Newman was born on May 8, 1921 in Valley Park, Mississippi. In 1942, he left his job with the Southern...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 26, 1977 with William Joel Blass (born 1917). As a lawyer in 1952, he successfully prosecuted the Boyce Holleman case by proving that voter fraud had kept Holleman from winning. Beginning in 1953, he...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. New Orleans mayor Ernest Morial is running with a hammer in one hand and a traffic sign in the other. The traffic sign is labeled, "Committee of 55...Radar enforced." He is...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A gangster-type man wearing a trench coat labeled "Crime issue" leans against a wall underneath a sign that reads, "Mayoral race." In the distance is the New Orleans skyline....
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Standing on a map of Louisiana, a huge man labeled "Crime (ordinary...organized...unorganized)" holds a handgun at his side and looks down on a much smaller man. The second man...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Richard Locher. Two thugs walk away from a crime victim in an alley. The larger of the two men carries a handgun and cash. The smaller man, with "CAT" on his shirt, carries a handgun and a (?)...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Knudsen. Uncle Sam, labeled "Our affluent society," stands before a large mirror and looks at his reflection. He is shocked to see a horrifying figure with claws and fangs, labeled...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on February 22, 2007 with Anne Petty, a retired schoolteacher, who describes hearing about Hurricane Katrina from her hospital bed in Washington and learning of its damage to her home in Pascagoula.
Oral history.; Interview conducted on July 7, 1993 with Lt. Col. Billie Hughes of the Mississippi Highway Safety Patrol. Hughes was born in Pearl River County, Mississippi. He grew up in Pike County, Mississippi. After working for the railroad...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on September 14, 1977 with Mr. Semmes Luckett, attorney at law, at his office in Clarksdale, Mississippi. Luckett was born on October 28, 1905 in Yazoo City, Mississippi. He entered the University of Mississippi...
Oral history.; Mr. Edward Sternberg was born on October 22, 1901, in Louisville, Kentucky. He was educated in private schools and graduated from Grady School, Louisville, in June 1915. He worked in a variety of jobs as a boy and began his first...
Oral history. Interview conducted on March 4, 1972 with Associate Justice Thomas Pickens Brady, of the Supreme Court of Mississippi in his chambers in Jackson, Mississippi. Brady was born on August 6, 1903, in New Orleans, Louisiana. He...
From the McCain (William D.) Pamphlet Collection; In this statement by J. Edgar Hoover to the National Commission on the Causes and Preventions of Violence, he notes the increase in violent crime in the U. S. and examines some of its origins. He...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man labeled "Rising crime problem" sits on one corner of a large "Suggestion box" that is placed next to a wall under a sign that reads, "Southern Governors Conference." A...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A large man labeled "Violent crime" holding a handgun is on hands and knees behind a government building with a tall tower. In the foreground, Louisiana Governor Dave Treen,...
From the AAEC Editorial Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ernest Morial, Ron Faucheux, and Bill Jefferson, dressed in running clothes, are racing through New Orleans. They are at a corner next to a brick building, and the city skyline can be...
