From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. A sunburned man wearing swim trunks and sandals, and with a dazed or painful expression, stands before a vanity and mirror. The man is labeled "Burning Cyprus question." Heat from...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eddie Germano. In an open field, labeled "Plain of jars," are many large jars with wide necks and without lids. Among them is a different type of jar, its lid half off. It is labeled "Jam in...
cartoon by Jack Jurden; A jar with a lid labeled "auto industry" and a cauldron labeled "insurance companies" are facing off. The jar wears and angry expression on its face and is releasing steam from beneath its lid and waving a fist at the...
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.; Mr. Boyce Holleman was born on February 26, 1924, in Wiggins, Mississippi. Mr. Holleman enrolled at the Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College in the fall of 1940, but transferred to the University of Mississippi to study law. In...
Oral history.; A native of Mississippi, Mrs. Bates received degrees from Tougaloo College and West Virginia University, with further study at the University of Colorado and the University of Denver. She has been a resident of Denver, Colorado, for...
Oral history.; Ms. Sarah Bernice Arnold was born January 25, 1913, in Saltillo, Mississippi. She lived through the Depression and the closing of the banks in the 1930s, at which time she went to work sewing in a factory in Tupelo. Her husband,...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on July 12, 1973 with Mr. Jerry Clower at his office in Yazoo City, Mississippi. Clower was born in 1926 at Route Four, Liberty, Mississippi. After graduating from high school, he joined the U.S. Navy. On...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ronald Reagan is sitting at his desk between a small pile of domestic policy papers and a tall pile of defense policy papers. His jar of jelly beans is on the corner of the...
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 February 20, 2008 with Ellis Cuevas, who describes life in the Waveland, MS, area before and after Hurricane Katrina.
Oral history.; Tommie Dukes Sr. was born in 1906 in Richardson, Mississippi, a town that no longer exists. Mr. Dukes played baseball at Alcorn College and then played for semi-pro and Negro League teams. Among other teams, he played for the Memphis...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 24, 1981 with Mr. Dave L. Dunaway at his office in Greenville, Mississippi. Dunaway was born on January 2, 1927 near the Enon community in Walthall County, Mississippi. Following his discharge from the...
Oral history.; Orene Ellis Farese was born May 20, 1916, in Choctaw County, Mississippi. She attended a local public schools, Holmes Junior College, and Blue Mountain College. She began her professional career as a high school English teacher. When...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on May 1, 1972 with Dr. Aaron Henry in his drugstore in Clarksdale, Mississippi. Henry was born on July 2, 1922 in Clarksdale, Mississippi. After serving in World War II, he went to Xavier College (now Xavier...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on June 7, 1999 with Terri Shaw (born 1940). Ms. Shaw graduated from Antioch College in Yellow springs, Ohio, in 1963, then went to work for the Buffalo (NY) Courier-Express before spending the summer in...
Oral history.; Mr. Edward Sternberg was born on October 22, 1901, in Louisville, Kentucky. He was educated in private schools and graduated from Grady School, Louisville, in June 1915. He worked in a variety of jobs as a boy and began his first...
Oral history.; On April 8, 1927, Dr. Pete Walker was born in Lumberton, Mississippi. When Dr. Walker was four years old, his mother passed away. As a child, Dr. Walker worked in his father's cafes. Dr. Walker attended Jones County Junior College...
Oral history.; Dorothea Allsup was born on February 4, 1916. Her family resided in Nebraska, but they moved to Epes, Alabama and then Macon, Mississippi, when she was seventeen. While Mrs. Allsup attended high school in Macon she met her future...
From Mrs. W's 1901 Diary. Mrs. W.'s diary paints a vivid portrait of the daily life of a middle class homemaker in 1901, and constitutes a daily account of the author's activities from April 1 - August 7, 1901.Very little biographical or historical...
