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.; Interview conducted on June 3, 1993 with Mr. George Saxon, formerly of the Mississippi Highway Safety Patrol as an investigator, at his home in Gulfport, Mississippi. Saxon was born on March 30, 1927 in Waynesboro, Mississippi. ...
Materials in this collection were donated by William M. Colmer: First accession-1970. Additional information online at: http://www.lib.usm.edu/legacy/archives/m024.htm
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Merle Cunnington. A donkey winks as he stands over a grave marked with a headstone that reads "Bobby Baker case." The donkey is wearing a blanket divided into three vertical sections. The first...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man labeled, "Retired Army Provost Marshal Turner" [Major General Carl C. Turner] is sitting at a table under an interrogation lamp. The table is full of handguns and rifles....
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Richard Wallmeyer. Richard Nixon is walking on a sidewalk past the corner of a building with an alley next to it. He stops suddenly as a man in the alley gets his attention with "Pssst..." The...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Ed Valtman. An ostrich labeled "Baker investigation" stands with its head in the sand under a hot sun. An elephant dressed in safari clothing and pith helmet is pulling a tail feather from the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Jon Kennedy. Richard Nixon, Attorney General John Mitchell, and Secretary of Commerce Maurice Stans sit on the lid of a wooden coffin labeled "Watergate affair." They each hold hammers and are...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. A boy lies on his stomach in front of a television in a living room watching the Senate Rules and Administration Committee hearing of the Bobby Baker case. On the television screen,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Arthur Henrikson. A police officer is running at speed, following the footprints of an unseen suspect. The footprints are labeled "Criminal activity." The police officer looks up with alarm to...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Reg Manning. A dead man covered from waist to calf by a sheet labeled "Watergate" lies on a hospital gurney. Four men in surgical garb and masks are trying to revive the man. A man labeled...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Karl Hubenthal. An undertaker labeled "House Judiciary Committee" is measuring Richard Nixon's height for a casket. The undertaker is using magnetic audio tape from a reel labeled "Subpoenaed...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Ed Gamble. This cartoon is in four parts. In the first frame, Richard Nixon is speaking on the telephone to Leon Jaworski. Nixon says, "More tapes? Look, Jaworski, I've just about lost all my...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on February 19, 2009 with John Dubuisson, Chief of Police in Pass Christian, Mississipi. Mr. Dubuisson discusses his experiences during and after Hurricane Katrina.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on August 31, 2009 with David Elliott. A newscaster at WLOX-TV, Mr. Elliott describes his experiences during and after Hurricane Katrina.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on May 12, 2006 with Victoria Cintra. Ms. Cintra discusses the problem of the exploitation of immigrant labor in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on November 12, 1981 and February 6, 1982 with Judge J. P. Coleman. Coleman was born on December 9, 1914 in Fentress, Mississippi. After attending the University of Mississippi, he was invited to work in...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on June 18, 2007 with Margaret Alfonso, the Senior Chancery Court Judge for Hancock, Harrison, and Stone counties. She discusses her experience with Hurricane Katrina on the Gulf Coast.
Oral history.; Interview conducted on July 28, 1981 with Reverend Clinton Collier at the Methodist Church in Morton, Mississippi. Collier was born on August 24, 1910 [i.e. 1909] in rural Neshoba County. After completing the eighth grade, which...
Oral history.; An interview on February 21, 2007 conducted with John Lindgren, an engineer at Ingalls Shipbuilding Co., who describes his experiences during Hurricane Katrina in Pascagoula, MS, including rebuilding his home.
