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...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. New Orleans mayor Victor Schiro sits at his desk and appears to be deep in thought. Behind him on the wall is a graph labeled, "City's financial status." The graph line is...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Paul Volcker, chair of the Federal Reserve Board, is twisting the wheel of a large press (or vise). Inside the press is Uncle Sam, labeled "The economy." Volcker says, "Good...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Uncle Sam, wearing the uniform of a letter carrier, is standing beside a truck labeled "U.S. mail" which has a flat tire. The back doors of the truck are open and a device...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Jim Orton. A donkey and elephant are playing baseball, with the donkey pitching to the elephant. The elephant is distressed to see three balls coming at him, labeled "Watergate, Pardon,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. An elephant and a donkey wearing suits stand near a brick wall looking up at windows set into the wall. Each carries a briefcase; the elephant's case is labeled "Returning...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Gene Basset. Lyndon Johnson holds the strings to three large balloons, one labeled "The economy." Holding his arm out, Johnson tries to prevent Harry Truman from piercing a balloon with the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Lyndon Johnson, dressed as the captain of a ship, stands at the helm of the "U.S.S. Economy." He is steering the ship between the tips of two icebergs labeled "Recession" and...
Interviews conducted on 04-21-1977 and 05-12-1977 with Unita Blackwell (born 1933). Ms. Blackwell was a field worker for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in 1964 and also served that year as a delegate of the Mississippi Freedom...
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.; Two interviews conducted on March 29 and April 13, 1977 with Mr. Amzie Moore at his home in Cleveland, Mississippi. Moore was born on September 23, 1911 in rural Mississippi, on the county line of Carroll and Grenada Counties. In...
Oral history.; Mr. Ray William (Buck) Wells was born August 21, 1916, on a dairy farm three-fourths of a mile southwest of Mississippi Normal College (now The University of Southern Mississippi). Sometime around 1920 or 1921 he moved into...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on April 8 and 13, 1982 with Mr. E. Hammond Smith at his home in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Smith was born on December 17, 1894 in Bladen Springs, Alabama. His family moved to Hattiesburg, Mississippi and...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on October 13, 1993 with Mr. Kenneth O. Williams at the new state capitol building in Jackson, Mississippi. Williams was born on January 18, 1924 in Clarksdale, Mississippi. He received a BA in political science...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on July 7, 1976 with Mr. P.A. Tims of Poplarville, Mississippi. Tims was born on October 20, 1890 in Ethel, Mississippi. In 1912, he enrolled in the first class to convene on the campus of the newly established...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on February 7 and 21, 1992 with Mr. Thomas Knight Sr. at the University of Southern Mississippi. Knight was born on July 9, 1920 near Hattiesburg, Mississippi. In 1941, he began working at the Reliance...
Oral history.; Mr. Wesley C. Webb was born in Biloxi, Mississippi, on April 2, 1938. After his graduation from high school, Mr. Webb entered the Navy, boarding the U.S.S. Helena for Japan. For two years and nine months, Mr. Webb served in the...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 26, 1977 with William Joel Blass (born 1917). As a lawyer in 1952, he successfully prosecuted the Boyce Holleman case by proving that voter fraud had kept Holleman from winning. Beginning in 1953, he...
Oral history.; Mrs. Lorita Nelson Jones was born on July 19, 1909, in Biloxi, Mississippi. Her mother's family were originally from New Orleans, Louisiana, of Creole heritage; her grandmother, Olivia Lewis, spoke only in French. Her father Lamar...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 19, 1994 with Ms. Vernon J. Keys (born 1926). Beginning in 1965, Ms. Keys worked with the Coahoma Opportunities, Inc. (COI), a community action agency designed to improve the economic position of the poor...
