Photograph (positive image of a negative) of Woman of Achievement award recipient Frances Karnes at the Forrest General Hospital ceremony at the Lake Terrace Convention Center.
cartoon by John Riedell; An African American nurse tells the doctor,"With a heart transplant, he'll pull through." The doctor checks on a patient with one white foot and one black foot. The hospital bed is labeled "Racial Cooperation."
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Hy Rosen. George Wallace lies in a hospital bed holding a broadside with a picture of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in a wheelchair. The picture is labeled, "F.D.R. the campaigner." The caption...
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 Beauregard (Pierre Gustave Toutant) Papers. Written by and at the command of General Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard from Charleston, South Carolina, headquarters of the Department of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida on 1 December...
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...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Stampone. An injured U.S. soldier lies in a bed in a U.S. military hospital. His right leg is broken and in traction. The soldier's purple heart medal is on the bedside table. He is...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. A man holding a bouquet of flowers looks around a door into a hospital room at the patient within and says, "Hope there's nothing seriously wrong with his ticker!" In the room, an...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on July 18, 2006 with Odalee Fair. A resident of New Orleans, Ms. Fair discusses her experiences during and after Hurricane Katrina.
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...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on March 19, 2008 with Vincent Creel. An employee of the City of Biloxi, Mr. Creel discussesthe city's preparation, response and recovery from Hurricane Katrina.
Oral history.; An interview with Marnie Herrington conducted on October 1, 2005. Ms. Herrington discusses her experience during and after Hurricane Katrina in Crystal Springs, Mississippi.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on June 5, 2008 with Carrolyn Reeves Hamilton, Superintendent of Schools, Long Beach, Mississippi. Ms. Hamilton discusses her experience during and after Hurricane Katrina as well as the impact on Long Beach...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on May 14, 2008 with Robert E. Bass, Jr. (born 1955). Mr. Bass earned degrees from Mississippi State University and the University of Mississippi Law School. He has served in many civic capacities, including...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on February 21, 2007 with Ruth Horn, a long-time Moss Point, Mississippi, resident who describes her experiences surrounding Hurricane Katrina on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on June 6, 2008 with Rev. Lee J. Adams, Jr., a pastor at Little Rock Baptist Church in Gulfport, MS. Mr. Adams discusses the role of the church in recovering from Hurricane Katrina.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on December 6, 2007 with Kathryn Anne ""Sally"" James. A lifelong Pass Christian resident, Ms. James describes the impact of Hurricane Katrina on her family and the city of Pass Christian, Mississippi.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on January 31, 1977 with Jimmy Carter Fairley (born 1921). A native of Greene County, Mississippi, Mr. Fairley was active in the civil rights movement at the local, state, and national levels.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on November 1, 2005 with Elizabeth Brewton, who was a student at the University of Southern Mississippi during Hurricane Katrina. She discusses her experience during the storm in Hattiesburg and discovering...
