Oral history.; An interview conducted on February 21, 2007 with Ruth Horn, a long-time Moss Point, Mississippi, resident who describes her experiences surrounding Hurricane Katrina on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on August 2, 2007 and October 9, 2007 with Edmond Boudreaux, Jr., a longtime Mississippi Gulf Coast resident and active local historian of the region. Mr. Boudreaux discusses the impact of Hurricane Katrina on...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. A large, covered, floating vessel labeled "Nixon's Ark" carries large guns pointing in all directions. President Richard Nixon stands on deck and looks into the sky. His thoughts are...
From the Ingram-Day Lumber Company Photographs Collection. Photograph of a child standing in a dense grove of long leaf pine trees. The original caption reads, "Long Leaf at Yarbo, Alabama".
From the Ingram-Day Lumber Company Photographs Collection. Photograph of a little girl standing next to a huge yellow pine tree. The original caption reads, "A 24" x 24" x 70' Dense Heart Long Leaf Yellow Pine Stick in the Tree".
From the Ingram-Day Lumber Company Photographs Collection. Photograph of a particularly thick stand of yellow pine trees. A small child can barely be seen in the middle of the photograph. The original caption reads, "Dense Close Grained Long Leaf...
Oral history.; Jack Winton Gunn was born January 14, 1916, in Waco, Texas. His mother died in 1924, and his father remarried in 1925. Jack Gunn graduated from Baylor University and for a brief time worked in Tyler, Texas, and got a private pilot's...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on August 25, 1971 with Erskine Caldwell (1903-1987). Mr. Caldwell was a prominent American author whose works include Tobacco Road, (1932) and God's Little Acre (1933).
Oral history.; Miss Eleanor Sinclair was born and reared in Pass Christian, Mississippi. She completed the eighth grade, which was the highest grade a black student could complete in public schools at Pass Christian at that time. She worked at...
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...
