Oral history.; Mrs. Geraldine (Gerry) Blessey was born in Biloxi, Mississippi, on April 16, 1922. Mrs. Blessey is a member of the Biloxi Council of Garden Clubs, the Biloxi Bay Chamber of Commerce, the Gulf Coast Symphony Guild, and the Maritime...
Oral history.; Borganelli discusses her teaching career and family, public education in Mississippi, the Mississippi Humanities Council, and race relations in Mississippi.
Photograph of basketball forward Vandarel Jones playing during a game against Marquette University. Featured in the 1999-2000 Southern Miss Basketball Media Guide on page 69.
Photograph of basketball forward Rod Agee (No. 4) as he tries to pass the ball during a game against the University of Alabama Birmingham. Featured in the 1997 Southerner yearbook on page 96.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Merle Cunnington. An elephant and a donkey are harnessed to a plow, with Richard Nixon holding the reins. The plowed rows are labeled, "Honorable and safe withdrawal from Vietnam." The donkey...
cartoon by Ed Valtman; A judge leans forward at his bench. With his hands folded, he addresses Congressmen John N. Mitchell, Maurice H. Stans, and Robert Dole, who are seated at a long table in front of the bench. The judge says to the men,"Now...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. The footboard of a bedstead is labeled, "Vietnam controversy." In the bed are four figures, from left to right: a donkey in pajamas, a hawk with a rocket in its beak, a dove...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A car labeled, "Careful!...Drivers" is at the bottom of the cartoon, with a person behind the wheel. The person is leaning forward to look up through the windsheld at three very...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher; A man representing New Orleans jumps forward to greet a man walking through the door. A mat on the floor reads, "Welcome Mike Collins."
cartoon by Bob Taylor; There are two scenes in this cartoon. In the first scene, a man stands with his back facing forward. The back of his coat is labeled "Congress," and it looks like someone is hugging him. In the second scene, the man is...
cartoon by John J. Knudsen; "Mankind" wears an astronaut's suit and boot on one leg labeled "Scientific Progress," and this leg moves forward. The other leg looks like it is from a prehistoric era, and it is labeled "Moral Progress." This foot...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Clyde Wells. A battleship, USS Ford, is moving through a lock in the Panama Canal. Some of the gun's ships point forward, and others point to left and right. From right to left across the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by John Riedell. Lyndon Johnson, dressed as an admiral, is in the crow's nest at the top of a sailing ship mast. He is looking forward into the distance and holding a monocular spy glass. The flag...
cartoon by Jack Jurden; Presidential advisors, Melvin Laird, John Mitchell and Robert Finch stand in a line facing forward. Laird and Mitchell, with their hands behind their backs, bend their knees and lean toward their right. Finch, also with...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Knudsen. An Asian man labeled "Reds" jumps back in surprise as a large hand reaches forward, offering him a locked ballot box labeled "Thieu's offer of free elections in South Vietnam."...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on February 27, 1991 in the city hall of Corinth, Mississippi with Mayor Edward S. Bishop, Sr. Bishop was born in Starkville, Mississippi on December 11, 1907. In 1926, he completed high school at Jackson...
A collection of ten 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...
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...
