Oral history.; An interview conducted on November 12, 1997 with Winifred Green (born 1937). After earning a bachelor's degree in English from Millsaps College in 1963, Mrs. Green and four other women formed Mississippians for Public Education, one...
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...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on January 5, 1978 with Miss Florence Mars at her home in Philadelphia, Mississippi. Mars was born on January 1, 1923 in Philadelphia, Mississippi. She studied at Millsaps College and University of Mississippi,...
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.; Interview conducted on November 16, 1977 with George Rogers (born 1927). Mr. Rogers, a Rhodes Scholar, was elected to the Mississippi House of Representatives, where he served for more than twenty years. He became well known for his...
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.; Interview conducted on August 6, 1981 with Dr. W. J. Cunningham at his home in Memphis, Tennessee. William Jefferson Cunningham was born on December 23, 1905 in Iuka, Mississippi. In 1929, he graduated from the University of...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A fortune teller named Madame Clarity looks into a crystal ball and sees, "La. fiscal crisis." She appears dismayed. A man sits in a chair opposite, and he is labeled, "Special...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man with a bomb for a head, labeled "Bombings" holds a pipe wrench in one hand. Around him are the words, "Law violations...Racketeering." Behind him is a tourism sign that...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man with a globe for a head is dressed very shabbily with patches on his clothes and holes in his shoes. He shambles along a sidewalk to a corner holding out a cup labeled,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A map of Louisiana is the backdrop for this cartoon. A man whose head and neck are a pipe wrench sits at the edge of a manufacturing facility. The sign above the factory reads,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. An overweight woman stands on a scale. Her dress is covered in dollar signs and is labeled, "Growing U.S. dollar crisis." She holds a shoe box labeled, "Sweet spending bon-bons"...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ayotollah Ruhollah Khomeini sits cross-legged on a floor with his back to a wall on which are many hash marks that mark the passage of days during the Iran Hostage Crisis. He...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Charles de Gaulle is sitting at a desk on top of the globe. On the desk is a crystal ball labeled, "World's problems," and de Gaulle's hands are stretched out toward it. Behind...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. The Louisiana stat house is on the left side of the cartoon, and the tower is labeled, "12-day session of the Legislature." Nearby on the ground by the building is a sign...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Knudsen. Uncle Sam kneels at the edge of a bridge labeled "Bridge To Moscow" and tries to attach a board with his claw hammer. Below him on the ground is Leonid Brezhnev (labeled...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Karl Hubenthal. Charles de Gaulle is pictured with a very large nose labeled "Inflated franc crisis." A tightly buckled belt encircles his nose, with a tag hanging from the belt labeled...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Richard Wallmeyer. A dove carrying an olive branch in its beak coughs as it flies past mushroom clouds of smoke labeled "Inflammatory rhetoric." The clouds have been generated from the bodies...
Oral history.; Mr. King T. Evans was born on March 19, 1913 near Uniontown, Alabama, in Perry County. In 1925, Mr. Evans moved to Mississippi with his parents. His father was a mechanic and farmer. For a brief period, Mr. Evans attended the...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on November 4, 1993 with Joseph E. Wroten (born 1925). Mr. Wroten became famous as one of only two Mississippi House Representatives who voted in favor of allowing blacks to enroll at the University of Mississippi.
