Oral history.; Maurice Guyton Turner was born on April 29, 1912, in Greene County, Mississippi. He graduated from Greene County Agriculture High School in 1932. After staying out of school for a year he worked in his brother's grocery store. He...
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs; Photograph of O'Ferrall's horse-drawn float; it was the winning entry in Hattiesburg's 1906 Fourth of July parade. The float is parked in front of O'Ferrall's Ladies Furnishings; 7 x 5
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ronald Reagan and Tip O'Neill, labeled "Congress," ride on a Mardi Gras float labeled "Krewe of deficit reduction." A closed chest is on the float, and the men look at each...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ronald Reagan sits on a throne on a Mardi Gras float decorated to look like a throne room. He is wearing robes trimmed in fur and holding beads instead of throwing them. The...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on March 14, 2006 with Penny Dean, Hancock County Board of Supervisors board secretary. Dean discusses her experiences during Hurricane Katrina as well as recovery efforts.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on February 20, 2008 with Ellis Cuevas, who describes life in the Waveland, MS, area before and after Hurricane Katrina.
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.; Kathleen (Kat) Bergeron was born on April 23, 1950. She attended Gulfport East High School and the W. Page Pitt School of Journalism at Marshal University in Huntington, West Virginia. From 1995 to 1996, Ms. Bergeron attended...
From the Thigpen (S.G.) Papers. Photograph of a parade float wrapped in a white covering reading “Thigpen-Whitfield Hardware Co.” “1926” and “We-R Pulling for Picayune. Are You?”.
From the Robert C. Waller Photographs. Photograph (positive image of a negative) of a parade float by the Chi Omega sorority at Mississippi Southern College.
cartoon by John Stampone; This cartoon contains four frames. Within the four frames, two bald, fat men shovel dirt and fill in a hole in the ground. One man is labeled "Soviets" and the other man is labeled "Red China" In the first frame, a...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Ed Valtman. Six people float in a weightless environment. They are men and women, younger and older. All are smiling. A young girl labeled "Naivete" holds a sign that reads, "Peace is just...
