Oral history.; An interview conducted on February 21, 2007 with Aimee Gautier-Dugger, who describes her experience waiting out the storm in Gautier, the city her ancestors founded, and the struggle to regroup after the storm.
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 06-11-1981 with Mr. Wilson Evans II (born 1924). Evans began his long career as a union leader in Gulfport in 1950, later becoming president of the union. This interview covers topics as diverse as his service...
Oral history.; Mrs. Edith Ruff Thomas was born on February 12, 1920. She grew up on a farm that became well-established, providing products throughout Tupelo. In 1936, she lived through the Tupelo tornado, and in 1937 she was graduated from Tupelo...
Oral history.; Mr. Roberts Wilson Jr. was born July 6, 1941, in Rosedale, Mississippi. After attending both Vanderbilt University and the University of Mississippi, he went to Washington. D.C., during the mid 1960s where he worked in the office of...
Oral history.; Reverend Sammie Rash was born in Sunflower County, Mississippi, on July 31, 1942. His parents were sharecroppers, and in 1949 they moved the family to the McGann plantation in Bolivar County, where Reverend Rash grew up. In 1963...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 30, 1977 with the Reverend Sammie Rash (born 1942). Reverend Rash, the son of sharecroppers, has been very active in both civil rights activities and Mississippi politics, in addition to being a minister...
Oral history.; Mrs. Lodie Marie Robinson-Cyrille was born on August 21, 1951 in Biloxi, Mississippi. As a child, she remembers meeting people from various cultures, including Africans; many were studying or serving at Keesler Air Force Base. ...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eddie Germano. An elephant labeled "GOP" is dancing with Henry Cabot Lodge. In the upper right background, President Dwight Eisenhower is playing a trumpet with "Tootin' it up" coming out of...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Ed Valtman. An ostrich labeled "Baker investigation" stands with its head in the sand under a hot sun. An elephant dressed in safari clothing and pith helmet is pulling a tail feather from the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. A distressed-looking elephant labeled "Moderates," dressed in a tuxedo, looks into a top hat labeled "Hope for a miracle." Runtz's signature cat looks on, also looking distressed.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eddie Germano. The Republican elephant and the Democratic donkey are each reaching into separate boxes labeled "Campaign TNT." Each holds sticks of dynamite and is scowling at the other.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eddie Germano. Senator Strom Thurmond is shown landing on the back of the Republican elephant. He had started out on the ground, jumped to the back of the Democratic donkey, and from there had...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eddie Germano. Two men stand over the broken pieces of a large GOP elephant. One man holds papers labeled "GOP plans for 1968." The other man says, "Better start piecing it together!" as he...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eddie Germano. A child-sized elephant dressed in one-piece pajamas lies on his stomach on the floor before a lit fireplace and next to a decorated Christmas tree. The elephant is writing a...
From the AAEC Editorial Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. An elephant with a chain around its neck and a dog tag that reads "Jumbo" is labeled "$5.2 billlion general appropriations bill" across its back. Four men stand around Jumbo, and at...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. An overweight man dressed in jogging clothes and labeled "Deficit" runs in the Washington City Classic. Behind him struggling to catch up are several men. One has an elephant...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. An elephant struggles to carry on his back a large box labeled, "Fall elections...Budget deficit...Recession." A donkey stands nearby and says, "And they call me the beast of...
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...
