Oral history.; An interview conducted on May 9, 2007 with Perry and Bobbye Gibson. Long-time residents of the Gulf Coast, they discuss their ties to the community of Bay St. Louis as well as their experiences during and after Hurricane Katrina.
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...
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.; Three interviews conducted on August 8 and 10, 1976 and October 19, 1976 with Jesse Boyce Holleman (born 1924). He served in the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1947 until 1953. At that time, he became district attorney for...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on August 13, 1993 with Mr. Erle Johnston at his home in Forest, Mississippi. Johnston was born on October 10, 1917 in Garyville, Louisiana. In 1941, he moved Forest, Mississippi and bought the fledgling...
From the AAEC Editorial Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Two men dressed as railroad engineers are sitting on top of a railway car that is part of a longer train. The car, labeled "85-day regular session," is the next to last, followed by the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. Uncle Sam walks past a sign post on which are two signs pointing in opposite directions. The sign that points in the direction Uncle Sam is walking reads "Nuclear non-proliferation...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. George Shultz and Andrei Gromyko, from opposite directions, walk toward a door labeled "Stockholm meeting." A large thermometer on the building beside the door is labeled...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A high sided truck is stopped at the entrance of a much shorter tunnel. The tunnel entrance is labeled "Revenues." The truck box is labeled "Costs...State govt. line." The truck...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Three U.S. soldiers stand by a wall that is very near heavily damaged buildings. The area is labeled "Lebanon." Near the wall is also a cemetery with crosses. Bullets are flying...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A large thermometer set near the roofline of a building is flanked by two tall windows (ledges?). New Orleans mayor Victor Schiro is seen on either side of the thermometer,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A steep mountainside is labeled "'68 elections" and it has a narrow road winding around it that is barely wide enough for one car. From opposite directions come two cars, one...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Five tall trees are each marked with a letter and together they spell, "Polls." Arrows on the trees are pointing in different directions; some are labeled, "Nixon would run...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by William Sandeson. Richard Nixon and Charles de Gaulle are in a dressmaker's studio near two dressmaker's models which have puffed out chests. The models, labeled "Past snubs" and "Ego," are...
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...
cartoon by Eddie Germano; An "airport traffic controller" is seen sitting up in bed and very distressed. It appears he has had a dream about jets flying all different directions. He is sweating and biting his nails.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Riedell. Against a nght sky, the Eiffel Tower is shown being struck by a huge bolt of lightning. Sparks fly off the tower in all directions. The cartoon caption reads, "Struck!"
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Riedell. Two parrots sit on a signpost with two arrows pointing in opposite directions. One arrow points to "South Vietnam" and the other to "Cambodia." Footprints on the ground lead...
cartoon by Roy Peterson; Gamal Abdel Nasser repairs a statue of himself with tape from a first aid kit. The caption on the pedestal of the statue reads,"My Name Is Gamal Abdel Nasser, Dictator of Dictators: look on my works, ye mighty, and...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Ed Valtman. A huge package tied with rope and labeled "U.S. aid to Vietnam" is missing a large chunk out of one corner. The missing area is labeled "$27.3 million lost through theft and...
