Oral history.; An interview conducted on September 19, 2007 with Rich Westfall, Director of Community Development at Isle of Capri Casino in Biloxi, who describes Hurricane Katrina's devastating impact on the casino, the region, and the positive...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on May 9, 2007 with Perry and Bobbye Gibson. Long-time residents of the Gulf Coast, they discuss their ties to the community of Bay St. Louis as well as their experiences during and after Hurricane Katrina.
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...
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.; Born on January 27, 1966, in Natchez, Mississippi, to Elisha and Vera Wilkins, Ms. Juanita Wilkins was the eleventh of twelve children. She was graduated from high school in Natchez, and left two weeks later, moving to Dallas,...
Transcribed copy of a paper about racism in Mississippi during the 1960s. Follows the tribulations of college students who volunteered to register African Americans to vote during Freedom Summer. With regard to racism and white supremacy,...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on May 17, 1972 with Associate Justice Thomas Pickens Brady, of the Supreme Court of Mississippi in his chambers in Jackson, Mississippi. This is the second part of an interview conducted on March 4, 1972 with...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on January 23, 1973 with Mr. William Dukes in his office in Gulfport, Mississippi. Dukes was born in the Sullivans' Hollow area near Raleigh, in Smith County, Mississippi on January 15, 1927. After his discharge...
Oral history.; Four interviews conducted on October 1, 2, and 23 of 1975, and July 1, 1976 with Mr. Hugh Clegg at his home in Anguilla, Mississippi. Clegg was born on July 17, 1898 in Mathiston, Mississippi. Clegg graduated from Millsaps...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by John Collins. An elephant labeled "Nixon doctrine" has encircled Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau with its trunk, and Trudeau has dropped the maple leaf he was holding. The elephant's...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by John Collins. Marc Lalonde, wearing a beanie and a sweatshirt with a maple leaf, shouts into a megaphone. He is jumping off the ground and his legs are open in a cheerleader's split. In one...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Leonid Brezhnev stands smiling and holding a large four leaf clover labeled "Detente." He is looking at an American tank labeled, "Defense build up." On the tank is a sign that...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Louisiana governor Dave Treen sits under a large tree labeled, "The money tree" with empty branches. Around him on the ground are many fallen leaves. The last leaf on the tree...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Stampone. In the four frames of this cartoon, Uncle Sam sits at a table with Nikita Khrushchev in a room with a window and a grandfather's clock that is chiming the hour. The time on the...
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Published in London by George Routledge and Sons. Printed on one side of leaf only. Includes some Mother Goose nursery rhymes.
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Published in New York by McLoughlin Bros., Inc., circa 1870s. Title and imprint from cover. Text on p. [2] and [3] of cover. "Mounted on linen." Printed on one side of leaf only; text and...
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs; Photograph of an unidentified house in Hattiesburg showing water just inches below the front porch, during the Leaf and Bouie River flood of 1961.
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs; Photograph of guards from Camp Shelby posted at the railroad bridge over Leaf River to protect it from sabotage during WWI. Several young boys are in the foreground of the image; 5 x 7
