Oral history.; Interview conducted on November 4, 1993 with Joseph E. Wroten (born 1925). Mr. Wroten became famous as one of only two Mississippi House Representatives who voted in favor of allowing blacks to enroll at the University of Mississippi.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ronald Reagan sits on a throne on a Mardi Gras float decorated to look like a throne room. He is wearing robes trimmed in fur and holding beads instead of throwing them. The...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. An Arab man wearing a robe labeled "OPEC" runs across the sand in shoes labeled "Price...Hike." In the background are two oil derricks. The cartoon caption reads, "Oh, oh, looks...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A gangster-type man wearing a trench coat labeled "Crime issue" leans against a wall underneath a sign that reads, "Mayoral race." In the distance is the New Orleans skyline....
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by William Sandeson. In the foreground, two rustlers in cowboy clothing with bandanas over their faces have roped a cow and thrown it to the ground. A campfire is lit nearby, and the rustlers are...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eddie Germano. Eugene McCarthy sits on a three-legged stool playing a giant Sousaphone and tapping his foot. From the horn come the words "The Wisconsin primary march...and no April fooling."...
cartoon by Ed Valtman; A man with a hat and a cigar is labeled "Congress," and he is running circles around a tree. He holds a magnifying glass and looks at some clouds of dust behind him labeled "Korean scandal." There are two men in suits...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Ed Valtman. A donkey lies upside down at the bottom of a deep hole in the ground. The hole is labeled, "$8.5 million debt." A man labeled "Dem. executive committee" and a man labeled "O'Brien"...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Arthur Henrikson. A very tall, slim young man labeled "18, 19, 20 year olds" is shown in the center of the cartoon. On one side of him, a donkey labeled "Dem." [Democrat] stands, leaning...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. A small man and woman stand in front of a castle labeled "Czechoslovakia" waving a sign labeled "Soviets, go home!" at a giant bear. The bear growls menacingly. Runtz's signature cat...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on March 28, 2006 with Alison Bass, a manager at Biloxi Grand Casino. She describes her experience before, during, and after Hurricane Katrina.
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 August 30, 1978 with Thomas Jefferson Tubb (born 1899). Mr. Tubb served as chairman of the Clay County Executive Committee for 47 years from 1928 to 1975 and during the Dixiecrat movement from 1950 to 1956....
Oral history.; Reverend Sammie Rash was born in Sunflower County, Mississippi, on July 31, 1942. His parents were sharecroppers, and in 1949 they moved the family to the McGann plantation in Bolivar County, where Reverend Rash grew up. In 1963...
Oral history.; Page discusses his family, his experiences as a black physician, the civil rights movement, his work in state politics, and the Mississippi Humanities Council.
Oral history.; Interview conducted on September 20, 1979 with Dr. Dewey Lane at the Robinson Lane Surgical Clinic in Pascagoula, Mississippi. Lane was born on September 27, 1934 in Starkville, Mississippi. He attended Vanderbilt University from...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Reg Manning. A man labeled "Supreme Court" wearing dark robe and straw hat sits on a stool and plays an upright piano. The sheet music he is playing from is labeled "Constitution," but he...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on July 25, 2006 with Naseer and Zaheer Ahmad. Zaheer had been a taxi operator in New Orleans for twenty-five years when Katrina forced his family to Virginia. Zaheer recalls his life in New Orleans and...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on December 19, 2006 with Kurt Brautigam, Distinguished Lecturer in the School of Mass Communication and Journalism at Southern MIss. Mr. Brautigam discusses preparing for Hurricane Katrina and its effects on...
