Oral history.; Mr. Eric Eugene Dickey was born May 7, 1966, in Biloxi, Mississippi, where his grandparents and Head Start exerted positive influences in his early life. In elementary school band, Mr. Dickey began playing trumpet, and later...
Oral history.; Four interviews conducted on October 1, 2, and 23 of 1975, and July 1, 1976 with Mr. Hugh Clegg at his home in Anguilla, Mississippi. Clegg was born on July 17, 1898 in Mathiston, Mississippi. Clegg graduated from Millsaps...
Commemorative bumper sticker in gold and black with "Metro" and "1991 champs Southern Mississippi." The bumper sticker also has a drawing of an arm dropping a basketball through a hoop.
Photograph of Lee Roberts. Dropping beach to pass and eyeing receiver, Sherrod Gideon, quarterback, Lee Roberts, gets ready to fire one of his three touchdowns against the University of Nevada. Also found in the 1998 Southerner yearbook on page 259.
cartoon by Ed Valtman; A man labeled "Baker" is holding a hat for donations. The hat is labeled "For Needy Senators," and there is a hole in the bottom of it. A hand is dropping $10,000 into the hat while Baker is catching the money that is...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Collins. Inside an ornate frame labeled "NATO 25th anniversary," Uncle Sam smokes a cigar labeled "Detente" and appears surprised. A woman labeled Europe and holding a shield labeled "EEC"...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on February 27, 1991 in the city hall of Corinth, Mississippi with Mayor Edward S. Bishop, Sr. Bishop was born in Starkville, Mississippi on December 11, 1907. In 1926, he completed high school at Jackson...
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...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on March 14, 2006 with Penny Dean, Hancock County Board of Supervisors board secretary. Dean discusses her experiences during Hurricane Katrina as well as recovery efforts.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on August 31, 2009 with David Elliott. A newscaster at WLOX-TV, Mr. Elliott describes his experiences during and after Hurricane Katrina.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on October 19, 2005 with Stacey Goldsmith. Ms. Goldsmith discusses her experience during and after Hurricane Katrina in Brandon, Mississippi.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on July 18, 2006 with Odalee Fair. A resident of New Orleans, Ms. Fair discusses her experiences during and after Hurricane Katrina.
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 June 18, 2007 with Margaret Alfonso, the Senior Chancery Court Judge for Hancock, Harrison, and Stone counties. She discusses her experience with Hurricane Katrina on the Gulf Coast.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on June 19, 2006 with artist Lori K. Gordon. Ms. Gordon discusses her community, Clermont Harbor, Mississippi, before Hurricane Katrina, as well as her experiences afterward. Pieces from Ms. Gordon's work, The...
Oral history.; Interview conducted in November, 1994, with Clearese Cook. Ms. Cook grew up in the Irene Chapel Community of Hattiesburg, Mississippi. She attended De Priest Consolidated School in the Palmers Crossing Community of Hattiesburg and...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on February 21, 2007 with Ruth Christian, who describes losing her home to Hurricane Katrina and the struggles that ensued after the storm on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on June 27, 2007 with Ralph Buchhorn, who came to the Mississippi Gulf Coast from San Diego in 2005 to provide emotional and spiritual support to survivors of 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...
