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 March 26, 1974 with Rabbi Julian B. Feibelman in his office at the Temple Sinai in New Orleans, Louisiana. Feibelman was born on March 23, 1897 in Jackson, Mississippi. He remained in Jackson for the first...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on November 11, 1995 with Curtis C. Bryant (born 1917). In 1961, Mr. Bryant and Bob Moses became the catalysts to start the voter registration drive in Mississippi. Bryant was also active in the NAACP and the...
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.; Reverend Arthur Lewis Jr. was born on October 29, 1948, in Forest Home, Alabama. He grew up in Pensacola, Florida, where he was graduated from high school in 1967. From Jackson State University, he earned a B.S.W. degree, and from...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on November 20, 1994 with Iva E. Sandifer (born 1918). Ms. Sandifer taught in the Hattiesburg public school system for thirty-one years. She served as secretary for her local NAACP chapter and as president of the...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on March 22, 1979 with Eddie Carthan (born 1949). Mr. Carthan taught school at Durant Attendance Center and at Saints College in Lexington, Mississippi, and has owned and operated several businesses in Tchula,...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on September 18, 1980 with Phillip West (born 1946). He has served as president of the NAACP of Adams County and as second vice-president for the state.
Oral history.; A native of Mississippi, Mrs. Bates received degrees from Tougaloo College and West Virginia University, with further study at the University of Colorado and the University of Denver. She has been a resident of Denver, Colorado, for...
Photograph of a domestic science class at Mississippi Normal College. An annotation at the top of the photograph reads: "Cooking by electricity: an important future factor." An annotation at the bottom includes the General Electric logo.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. An oil barrel is on its side, and Jimmy Carter is on top of it crosswise and face down. Two large clouds are nearby [smoke?], one labeled “Imported oil prices" and the other...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. An elephant is dressed in a military uniform and carries a rifle labeled, "Nov. elections" and a large rucksack labeled, "Reaganomics." He stands before a desk where Ronald...
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 Eddie Germano. A man labeled "Ye grocer" has a dazed expression on his face. He is being hit on the head with an umbrella held by a woman labeled "Ye housewife." At the same time, a donkey...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Arthur Henrikson. A woman wearing an apron stands in an open doorway pointing her finger and shouting at Lyndon Johnson, who is behind a desk. The woman holds a newspaper with headlines of...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Stampone. A man and woman stand beside their small car, a Volkswagen Beetle, which is parked in front of their small house. Next door is a very large house with double garage and fenced...
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...
