Oral history.; An interview conducted on May 19, 2008 with Laura Clare Thompson Creel. A life-long resident of Biloxi, Mrs. Creel recounts her family history and experience dealing with hurricanes, including Hurricane Katrina.
Oral history.; Orene Ellis Farese was born May 20, 1916, in Choctaw County, Mississippi. She attended a local public schools, Holmes Junior College, and Blue Mountain College. She began her professional career as a high school English teacher. When...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on June 26, 1979 with Mr. William J. Simmons at his office in Jackson, Mississippi. Simmons was born in 1916 in Utica, Mississippi. He attended Millsaps College and Mississippi College, graduating from the...
Photocopy of a one-page typed letter written by Joe Ellin to "Mom and Dad" on August 29, 1964. The letter addresses the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and the Democratic National Convention. Integration, Freedom School students, and libraries...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on July 30, 2007 with Cheryl Ann Blain, an engineer and oceanographer at Stennis Space Center. Dr. Blain describes her personal struggles with Hurricane Katrina as well as many of the environmental and...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on March 29, 2006 with Jeffrey J. Bower, who was the head football coach at Southern Miss during Hurricane Katrina. He discusses the hurricane's impact on his players and their season.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on March 14, 2007 with Richard Chenoweth, Jr., owner of Scranton's Restaurant in Pascagoula, MS. He describes his preparations for and experiences during Hurricane Katrina on the Gulf Coast.
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.; Mr. King T. Evans was born on March 19, 1913 near Uniontown, Alabama, in Perry County. In 1925, Mr. Evans moved to Mississippi with his parents. His father was a mechanic and farmer. For a brief period, Mr. Evans attended the...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on April 3, 1995 and June 8, 1995 with Constance Baker (born 1912). Mrs. Baker has spent her life working for civil rights and in teaching. She was involved in the Head Start program from its inception and...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 8, 1994 with Mrs. Elizabeth Price (born 1897). In the mid-1960s, Mrs. Price worked for the Civil Rights Commission, investigating and documenting issues of mistreatment as well as recruiting sympathizers....
From the Emilie and Marie Stapp Collection. Amelia Siedler was 10 years when she created this diary documenting her family's move from Iowa to Arkansas in a covered wagon from 28 December 1895 - 27 February 1896.
From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; Local teenager Doug Smith drives one of Vernon Dahmer's tractors pulling a flat bed hauling group of Freedom Summer volunteers. The group includes Arthur Reese (holding a radio), Terri Shaw...
From the Major-Sowers Saw Mill Photographs Collection. Photograph of a rear view of a flat car loaded with logs to be used to replace decking on "Old Ironsides" The USS Constitution. The lumber came from the Tallahala site in Perry County.
From the Major-Sowers Saw Mill Photographs Collection. Photograph of flat cars loaded with logs to replace decking on "Old Ironsides" The USS Constitution. The lumber came from the Tallahala site in Perry County.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Vic Runtz. Richard Nixon works hard to pump air into the front tire of a car with a license plate that reads "Asia." The tire is labeled "Vietnam." At the same time the other front tire,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Part of the Earth (a globe with lines of latitude and longitude) forms the bottom of the cartoon. On top of the Earth is a mountain with a flat top (butte shape). On top of this...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Two men are on a girder that is suspended from above by a wire and large hook. The girder is labeled, "State building programs" and is not flat but tilted up on one end. The man...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man is driving a car toward a large intersection on the Earth. The man is labeled, "N.O. property owner voters," and the car is labeled, "$20 million bond election tomorrow,...
