From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Former Louisiana governor Edwin Edwards has some small patches of tar and a few feathers stuck to him. Walking away from him is a man labeled "Fed. grand jury tax-shelter...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; The newsletter of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), this issue of the Voice (Vol. 6, no. 4; formerly titled the "Student Voice), is dated July 1965. Coverage includes...
From the Higdon (May) Collection. A newspaper from Blue Mountain, MS dated May 14, 1903. The paper features articles by the students and faculty of Blue Mountain College, including a lengthy article titled, "An Address", written by May Higdon’s...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Former Alabama governor George Wallace is wearing an apron and carrying a feather duster. He answers the phone at the governor's desk, with "Gov. Lurleen Wallace" on the name...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Former Louisiana governor Dave Treen is wearing a suit and hat that are too small for him, and he is carrying a cane under his arm. He is labeled, "40 thousand short." Newly...
Photograph of the Sunken Garden, later the site of McLemore Hall. The garden was built in 1932 as a jobs project during the early part of the Depression. Lake Byron is located just to the right of this picture. Both areas were part of a campus...
Caption: Brett Favre, the former Golden Eagle quarterback who rewrote virtually all of the Southern Miss passing records during his stint at USM, had his familiar No. 4 retired. Photograph featured in the USM Alumni News, vol. 46, no. 2 (Fall 1993)...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by John Riedell. Newly appointed Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Earl Burger is standing in front of an office door labeled "Office of the Chief Justice." The name of Earl Warren, former Chief...
Photograph of Sammy Winder with his former Southern Miss coach, Bobby Collins, at Winder's induction into the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame. Featured in the USM Alumni News, vol. 51, no. 4 (Spring 1998) on page 3.
Photograph of Robert H. "Ace" Cleveland, former Southern Miss Sports Information Director. The press box at M. M. Roberts stadium is named after him. Photograph featured in the 1992 Southern Miss Football Media Guide, page 131.
Photograph of the ribbon cutting ceremony for the dedication of Johnson Science Tower. Pictured (left to right) are: Aubrey Lucas (?), Governor Bill Waller, William D. McCain, Mrs. McCain (?), former Governor Paul B. Johnson, Jr., and two...
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...
From the AAEC Editorial Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Louisiana governor Dave Treen and former governor Edwin Edwards are dressed in baseball uniforms and stand facing each other on a baseball field. A large scoreboard is between them in...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. A massive boulder that resembles former President Dwight D. Eisenhower's face and head sits atop a cliff that overlooks a mountain road. The boulder is labeled "Ike's reluctance." A...
Transcribed copy of a typewritten document about the experiences of Jill Wakeman (Goodman) during her stay in Mississippi in the summer of 1966, including her motives for going to Mississippi and the civil rights work she did there. Describes Mount...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on February 22, 2007 with Gwendolyn Beard, a fourth-generation Mississippian who desribes her experieneces during and after Hurricane Katrina in Moss Point, MS.
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.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on May 19, 2008 with David Baria, a resident of Bay St. Louis during Hurricane Katrina. He describes his experience before, during, and after the storm.
