Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on July 8 and 23, 1980 with the Reverend Clay F. Lee at his study in Jackson, Mississippi. Lee was born on March 3, 1930 in Laurel, Mississippi. After graduating with his undergraduate degree from Millsaps...
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.; Interview conducted on June 24, 1998 with J.C. Fairley, Mamie Phillips, and Charles Phillips, who were all active in the NAACP during the civil rights movement of the 1950s and the 1960s.
cartoon by Roy Carless; A man with the lower body of a snail carries a briefcase marked "Mine and Smelter Industries" He is traveling on a path marked with lines labeled "1972,"1973," and "1974" He is headed in the direction of a sign that reads...
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.; Three interviews conducted on August 8 and 10, 1976 and October 19, 1976 with Jesse Boyce Holleman (born 1924). He served in the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1947 until 1953. At that time, he became district attorney for...
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 June 8, 1976, with Will D. Campbell. Mr. Campbell, born in Amite County, Mississippi, was ordained as a pastor at the age of 17. He first became aware of race relations during time spent in the military, when...
Oral history.; Maurice Guyton Turner was born on April 29, 1912, in Greene County, Mississippi. He graduated from Greene County Agriculture High School in 1932. After staying out of school for a year he worked in his brother's grocery store. He...
Photograph of an aerial view of campus. The view is from the southeast, with the Administration Building a little left of center. Photograph is marked with the photographer's name: "Bob Waller, Photographer, Hattiesburg, Miss." [Photograph was...
cartoon by John Stampone; A giant polar bear sits on top of a guard house that is situated in front of a barbed wire fence. The bear is wearing boots and a hat, and it holds a bone labeled "Czechs" in its big paws. A rifle is slung across his...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ronald Reagan carries a large cake on a platter in one hand as he walks on the descending line of a graph. The graph line is labeled "The economy," and the cake is labeled "One...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Merle Cunnington. A donkey winks as he stands over a grave marked with a headstone that reads "Bobby Baker case." The donkey is wearing a blanket divided into three vertical sections. The first...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Roy Carless. A man wearing a business suit is in the turret of an armored tank, with his head holding up the hatch. The turret is marked with a Canadian flag, and the tank is labeled "Labor law...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man labeled Chehardy is using a pointer to indicate areas of a poster showing weather patterns. The top of the poster reads, "Jefferson's assessment climate," and the weather...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ho Chi Minh is on top of a large tank that is marked with the Communist hammer and sickle symbol. The tank is moving across a curved surface (part of the globe) that is labeled,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Leonid Brezhnev and Uncle Sam sit on opposite sides of a rocket labeled "Arms Limitation Talks." The rocket is also marked with the atomic symbol. Part of the rocket body is...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird, with a pen in his hand, stands beneath a large gun barrel that is labeled, "U.S. Defense." From the barrel hangs a note: "Marked down $609...
cartoon by John Stampone; An long-bearded old man labeled "1969" wears a belted tunic and sandals. He has just handed off a bomb to a toddler labeled "1970" who is wearing a diaper and a top hat. The bomb is marked with a grid and is labeled...
