From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A sailor sitting on a Soviet submarine is fishing with a "hammer and sickle" hook near the Falkland Islands.
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...
From the AAEC Editorial Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A show poster outside a theater advertises "Britain and Argentina in Falklands forever mine--a smash." A theater employee is shouting, "Last chance to see a genuine 19th century war!"...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A lion sits on a small island holding a book with "Commandos par excellence" on the cover. The lion has a British flag on its chest and a military helmet on its head and is...
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...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on July 30, 2007 with Cheryl Ann Blain, an engineer and oceanographer at Stennis Space Center. Dr. Blain describes her personal struggles with Hurricane Katrina as well as many of the environmental and...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on May 17, 2006 with Ronald J. Baker, a commercial fisherman in Biloxi, MS. Mr. Baker describes the hurricane's impact on his neighborhood, his personal business, and the shrimping industry in general.
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 Map Collection. A map of the Philippine Islands. A route is drawn and labeled "The Track of the Manila Galeon from the Mole of Cabite till she gets clear of the Land."
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. This cartoon is in two panels. On the left side, two Argentinian military leaders sit at a desk behind a nameplate: "Junta." On the wall behind them is a graph showing a...
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.; Reverend Oliver D. Gilmer was born in Kentucky on May 31, 1927. As he grew up on a farm, he attended a one-teacher school from primer through the eighth grade. During World War II, he was drafted into the Army. He served in the...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on August 15, 1978 with Mr. Thomas Y. Minniece. Minniece was born in Meridian, Mississippi on October 9, 1912. He received a BA degree from the University of Texas in 1933 and a law degree from the University of...
Oral history.; Mr. Ray William (Buck) Wells was born August 21, 1916, on a dairy farm three-fourths of a mile southwest of Mississippi Normal College (now The University of Southern Mississippi). Sometime around 1920 or 1921 he moved into...
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.
Interviews conducted on 04-21-1977 and 05-12-1977 with Unita Blackwell (born 1933). Ms. Blackwell was a field worker for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in 1964 and also served that year as a delegate of the Mississippi Freedom...
From the Map Collection. A map showing the traditional top down view of Acapulco Harbor and Manila Bay. Spanning the top of the map horizontally is a profile of two islands "A View of 2 of the Landrone Islands". At bottom right "B.W. Seale sculp."...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Four American soldiers in Vietnam are drawn to resemble the photograph and statue of soldiers on Iwo Jima raising the American flag on top of Mount Suribachi. In the cartoon,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Riedell. The iconic photograph of American soldiers in World War II raising the American flag at Iwo Jima is spoofed in this cartoon. Four men in formal wear raise a pole with a Japanese...