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...
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.; An interview conducted on February 22, 2007 with Anne Petty, a retired schoolteacher, who describes hearing about Hurricane Katrina from her hospital bed in Washington and learning of its damage to her home in Pascagoula.
Oral history.; Mrs. Lorita Nelson Jones was born on July 19, 1909, in Biloxi, Mississippi. Her mother's family were originally from New Orleans, Louisiana, of Creole heritage; her grandmother, Olivia Lewis, spoke only in French. Her father Lamar...
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.; Interview conducted on June 5, 1999 with Sheila Michaels (born 1939). She attended the College of William and Mary, but was suspended for her political and racial opinions while on the school's newspaper board. In 1961, she joined...
Oral history.; Four interviews conducted on October 1, 2, and 23 of 1975, and July 1, 1976 with Mr. Hugh Clegg at his home in Anguilla, Mississippi. Clegg was born on July 17, 1898 in Mathiston, Mississippi. Clegg graduated from Millsaps...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher; Justice Earl Warren is hiding under the Supreme Court with a sign that reads, "Stop and frisk law OK, with limitations." A very tall man labeled, "Growth of U.S. Crime" and ...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man who appears to be a gangster stands in front of the U.S. Supreme Court building. He smiles as he reads the words on a paper held in front of him by a long arm in a...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man labeled "Legislature" grimaces at the sight of a huge Jack-in-the-box towering over him. It appears in the form of a gangster and is labeled, "Growing problems of crime."...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A very tall gangster-type character leans against the Washington Monument, his elbow on top of the monument. The gangster is labeled, "Monument to Washington," and he is holding...
