Oral history.; An interview conducted on August 2, 2007 and October 9, 2007 with Edmond Boudreaux, Jr., a longtime Mississippi Gulf Coast resident and active local historian of the region. Mr. Boudreaux discusses the impact of Hurricane Katrina on...
cartoon by Jack Jurden; Three kites are pictured with a leafless tree labeled "Senate" Two of the kites are punctured and hanging on branches of the tree; these two kites are labeled "Carswell" and "Haynsworth" The third kite, labeled "Blackmun,"...
Oral history.; Mrs. Lorita Nelson Jones was born on July 19, 1909, in Biloxi, Mississippi. Her mother's family were originally from New Orleans, Louisiana, of Creole heritage; her grandmother, Olivia Lewis, spoke only in French. Her father Lamar...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Collins. Richard Nixon is flying a kite in a strong wind. The kite's tail has ribbons labeled "NATO, NORAD, SEATO, Chiang." Nixon is looking over his shoulder and upward at the source of...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Jim Lange. Richard Nixon is shown as Charlie Brown, the Peanuts cartoon character, who has been flying a kite. He is jumping in alarm at the sight of his kite, labeled "SST," crashing to the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. Two kites are caught in a tree labeled "Senate scrutiny." The kite labeled "Haynsworth" has been mostly consumed by the tree. The kite labeled "Carswell...Supreme Court nomination"...
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...
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...
