Transcribed copy of an essay on African-American history from 1900-1964, written by Otis Pease for Mississippi Freedom Project workers. Includes brief biographies of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois, and mentions the Myrdal study.
Oral history.; Mr. Spain was born in 1927 in Ohio and moved with his family to Mississippi in 1930. While still a high school student, he helped build and operate a local AM radio station. Having graduated with honors from Mississippi State...
Oral history.; Born on January 19, 1958, in Greenwood, Mississippi, Jon Levingston grew up in a Jewish family in Cleveland, Mississippi. Mr. Levingston attended a boarding school in Rome, Georgia and then the University of Georgia and the Virginia...
From the AAEC Editorial Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Jimmy Carter is dressed in a long nightshirt labeled "1980" and holds a scythe (a la grim reaper). He is packing boxes in the Oval Office. In the center of the cartoon is a file cabinet...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Roy Carless. Richard Nixon's face appears on the body of the Statue of Liberty. His expression is grim. Instead of the torch, Nixon swirls a club in the air. The book in his other arm is...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Stampone. The skeletal forearm and hand of the Grim Reaper extend from the upper right of the cartoon, holding a sheet of paper titled "Vietnam casualties." In the foreground is Vietnam,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. This cartoon is in two halves, upper and lower. In the upper panel, a man at a bar asks the bartender for another drink, saying "One more for the road!" Marks around the man's...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. The shrouded figure of the Grim Reaper stands near a roulette wheel. Segments of the wheel are labeled "Death...Injury...Loss of home...Loss of job...Harm to race relations."...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. The Grim Reaper is labeled, "Orleans Parish 1967 traffic fatalities," and holds a pointer indicating a sign on the wall that reads, "76 to date." Words next to the Grim Reaper...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. On a road a man drives a car with "More and more cars" on the grill. He is being followed closely by a second car with "Record fatalities" on the grill, driven by the Grim Reaper (a...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher; The Grim Reaper is pulling Mao Zedong in a taxi. The Grim Reaper is labeled, "Cultural Revolution."
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher; The Grim Reaper hides behind a sign that reads, "School Zone (not in effect during summer months)." Children carry school books and approach the sign. A caption reads, "More...
Fifteen-page typescript of a journal kept by Sandra Adickes during her stay in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, as a volunteer in the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project of 1964. The journal is dated July 10 - August 20, 1964. Adickes discusses her work as...
cartoon by John Riedell; The "Grim Reaper" is standing in the bushes with his scythe. He is watching two cars of teenagers racing down the street. One of the teenagers is calling the group in the other car "chicken!"
cartoon by John Riedell; A man is being lifted out of a completely demolished car by the Grim Reaper's long, bony hand. The car is in pieces and the man is unconscious.
cartoon by John Knudsen; A crying, emaciated child labeled "Biafran children" sits Indian style on the ground and holds an empty bowl toward the Grim Reaper who is labeled "Starvation" The Reaper stands, scythe in hand, and motions for the child to...
Transcribed copy of a paper about racism in Mississippi during the 1960s. Follows the tribulations of college students who volunteered to register African Americans to vote during Freedom Summer. With regard to racism and white supremacy,...
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 June 6, 2007 with Rita W. Baldwin who managed Loaves and Fishes, an organization that helped Biloxi's homeless, as well as the Coastal Family Health Center. Ms. Baldwin discusses her experiences before and...
