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...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on November 1, 1995 with Joe Martin (born 1943). Mr. Martin became inspired by Medgar Evers after hearing him in elementary school. Martin and his Burgland High football friends formed an NAACP youth group. Mr....
Oral history.; Interview conducted on August 15, 1978 with Mr. Thomas Y. Minniece. Minniece was born in Meridian, Mississippi on October 9, 1912. He received a BA degree from the University of Texas in 1933 and a law degree from the University of...
Oral history.; Discusses Murchison's time spent in the United States Army. Particularly focuses on his participation in the Vietnamese Conflict. During that time, Murchison served both as an adviser and in an actual unit. He received a number of...
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.; 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,...
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.; Page discusses his family, his experiences as a black physician, the civil rights movement, his work in state politics, and the Mississippi Humanities Council.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Stampone. The horizon line of the cartoon is the curve of the earth, with Paris and the Eiffel Tower on the horizon and Vietnam in the foreground. A giant megaphone with a hammer and...
From the AAEC Editorial Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man sits in front of his television, the screen of which reads, "Sugar Bowl Classic, Georgia vs. Notre Dame." He looks over his shoulder at his wife, who stands at the entrance of the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. The Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans has marks above it that indicate fighting inside the building. The city skyline is in the background. The stadium sign has on the marquee:...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Louisiana gubernatorial candidate Dave Treen, wearing an elephant button, looks at a shape that represents people fighting. It is labeled with names:...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Ed Valtman. Leonid Brezhnev, labeled "Soviet occupation," has wrestled a much smaller man, labeled "Czechoslovakia," to the floor and has tied him up with rope. Czechoslovakia is fighting and...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eddie Germano. Richard Nixon and a large grouip of men, including Nelson Rockefeller, Ronald Reagan, and George Romney, have been fighting. Each has been wounded, but Nixon is the winner. The...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Ranan Lurie. Two men under the body of a donkey costume are fighting each other with fists and feet. The donkey, labeled "Dem.," has a bandaged face and head.
cartoon by Ed Valtman; Two men, one Russian and one Chinese, are fighting over a ship's wheel labeled "world communism." One of the men is wearing the communist hammer and sickle on his chest.
cartoon by John Riedell; A soldier aims his gun as a bullet flies past him in the brush. A man sleeps at the "Illinois Primary." A box sits by the man and is labeled "over 80% of voters."
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on August 29, 1991 with Mr. Richard Boyd and on September 29, 1992 with Mrs. Earline Boyd. Mr. Boyd was born on July 21, 1916 in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. He graduated from Eureka High School in 1935. ...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on October 21, 1996 with Mr. Charles Cobb (born 1943) in Washington, D.C. In the summer of 1962, he was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) field secretary in Ruleville, Mississippi, where he and...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on February 2, 1976 with James Cohen (born 1920). Since 1953, Mr. Cohen has been active in several civic associations in Hattiesburg and provides insight into the city's race relations and politics from the 1950s...
