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...
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 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.; Three interviews conducted on October 23, 29, and 30, 1996 with Hollis Watkins (born 1941), the twelfth child of sharecroppers. Mr. Watkins was jailed for participating in the Woolsworth's lunch counter sit-in in McComb and a...
A collection of six 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.; Interview conducted on July 30, 1980 with Mr. Erle Johnston at his home in Forest, Mississippi. Johnston was born on October 10, 1917 in Garyville, Louisiana. In 1941, he moved Forest, Mississippi and bought the fledgling newspaper,...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on December 11, 1974 with Mrs. Lillie Jones at her home in Philadelphia, Mississippi. Jones was born in 1892 in Lauderdale County, Mississippi and soon after her family moved to Neshoba County. She attended a...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on September 17, 1980 with the Honorable Tony Byrne, former mayor of Natchez, Mississippi at his office in the Natchez City Hall. Byrne was born on May 18, 1936 in Natchez, Mississippi. He attended Mississippi...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on October 28, 1993 with Judge Michael L. Carr (born 1920). He moved to Mississippi when he received an appointment to serve as law clerk to Edwin R. Holmes, U.S. circuit judge for the Fifth Circuit Court of...
Oral history.; Borganelli discusses her teaching career and family, public education in Mississippi, the Mississippi Humanities Council, and race relations in Mississippi.
Running summary of various incidents that occurred during the Mississippi Freedom Project, Summer 1964. Organized chronologically, each entry gives the city and the incident. Includes instances of harassment, hostility, and violence against civil...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. The box of a large truck is labeled, "Unlimited terms express" (on the side) and has a bumper sticker on the back that reads, "We love Dutch." The truck is moving, and its back...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. New Orleans mayor Ernest Morial is running with a hammer in one hand and a traffic sign in the other. The traffic sign is labeled, "Committee of 55...Radar enforced." He is...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A car labeled, "Careful!...Drivers" is at the bottom of the cartoon, with a person behind the wheel. The person is leaning forward to look up through the windsheld at three very...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Ed Valtman. Alabama Governor George Wallace drives an old crank-start car labeled "Governorship" in front of a mansion. A small Confederate flag flies on the hood of the car, and a dog races...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eddie Germano. George Wallace is sitting in a chair with his feet propped up on a stool and his hands behind his head. Lurleen Wallace enters the room carrying a tray with coffee and food....
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Reg Manning. In the upper frame of the cartoon, Uncle Sam gestures toward a man labeled "Little Rhodesia," who is standing near a sign labeled "Off limits, U.N. sanctions." Uncle Sam says, "I...
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 March 12, 2008 with Teri Eaton. An agent with State Farm Insurance, Mrs. Eaton discusses her experiences during and after Hurricane Katrina.
