From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher; In Moscow, there are balloons floating up toward an elderly man resting in the curve of a "hammer & sickle" labeled, "Harvest Moon." The balloons are labeled, "50th...
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...
cartoon by John Riedell; A wreath of flowers labeled "Holt" are floating on the ocean waves. Four stars form the shape of a cross in the night sky overhead.
From the Thigpen (S.G.) Papers. Photograph taken from a sandy shore with several logs and two buildings floating on the river with woods on the opposite shore. Caption on the back reads: “2-Story ‘Blue Goose’ Floating Saloon on the Pearl...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Mardi Gras balloons are floating in the air above the U.S. Capitol. In the distance is the Washington Monument with a crown at the top. Between the Capitol and the Monument are...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A large box labeled "$11 billion foreign aid" is floating in a stream and is nearly to the edge of a waterfall labeled, "Spending cuts." Ronald Reagan is on one side of the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Vic Runtz. President Richard Nixon rows a boat down a rapidly moving stream accompanied by an attractive woman whose billowing scarf is labeled "USA." Nixon's eyes are on the woman and not on...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Hy Rosen. President Richard Nixon drives a speed boat labeled, "G.O.P. hopes" along a developed beachfront. The Republican elephant rides in the boat and shows great fear at the sight of...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ronald Reagan is sitting at a desk with a sign on it that reads, "Installment tax cuts." A large man labeled "Growing deficits" sits in a chair beside the desk and says to...
cartoon by Eddie Germano; A disheveled-looking man is standing on a podium with his fist clinched and thrust into the air. With his other hand, he is pushing down on the top of a man's head labeled "press" who is sitting beside the podium. The...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Vic Runtz. President Richard Nixon is suited up in astronaut gear and floating in space. An apparatus strapped to his chest is labeled "Tour and report" and attached is a long air hose. In the...
A collection of eight interviews with participants in the Mississippi civil rights movement. The people interviewed discuss how they came to participate in the civil rights movement, their various activities, including voter registration, Freedom...
Materials in this collection were donated by William M. Colmer: First accession-1970. Additional information online at: http://www.lib.usm.edu/legacy/archives/m024.htm
Oral history.; Mr. Alton G. Bankston was born outside of Laurel, Mississippi on June 5, 1941. Mr. Bankston majored in political science and history at Jones County Junior College and attended the University of Southern Mississippi. In 1963 he...
Oral history.; Mr. George A. Stevens was born in 1910 in Forrest County, Mississippi. He attended Hattiesburg public schools but graduated from high school in Anthony, New Mexico. Mr. Stevens returned to attend The University of Southern...
Oral history.; Interview conducted with Dr. Michael Smith, a professor of criminal justice at the University of Southern Mississippi and a journalist during the 1960s. Smith was born in 1942 in Waterloo, Iowa. After his family's move to Jackson,...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 7, 1993 with James Nix (born 1937). In 1966, Mr. Nix formed a civil rights activist group called the Spirit. This group agitated for civil rights in Hattiesburg and served as bodyguards for local civil...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on July 24, 1999 with Joseph Schwartz (born 1938). Schwartz was active in Friends of SNCC at Berkeley and went South in the autumn of 1964. He worked in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, from September 1964 to March 1965.
Oral history.; Mr. Balfour William Ruff Sr. was born March 31, 1923, in Jackson, Mississippi. He moved to Tupelo at a young age and attended its public schools. For many years he operated the Ruff Dairy Farm, the first in the Tupelo area to...
