From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A giant prince sits on a box next to the Mississippi River as it flows through New Orleans. He is reading a book titled "How to awaken a sleeping beauty," and nearby is a sign...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Stampone. A river of oil, labeled "U.S. oil depot raids," spills from a hill in the upper right background of the cartoon. At the source of the oil, smoke rises. The oil flows toward the...
Oral history.; An interview with Sister Jacqueline Howard conducted on May 30, 2007. Principal at Our Lady Academy in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, Howard describes the impact of Hurricane Katrina on the school and the community of Bay St. Louis.
An interview conducted on 06-08-1999 with Umoja Kwanguvu (born1925). Born William Jones, Umoja Kwanguvu actively protested and defied segregation while in the military, conducted protest activities against the prevailing Jim Crow attitudes and laws...
Oral history.; Four interviews conducted on June 11, September 26, October 10, and November 21, 1985 with Ms. Ruby Magee in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Magee was born on August 12, 1940 in Tylertown, Mississippi. In 1962, she received a BA in...
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.