Oral history.; Mrs. Leila Lyle Wilkinson Underhill was born in Shelby, Mississippi, on July 29, 1919. She grew up during the Great Depression and remembers the flood of 1927. During World War II, Mrs. Underhill's brother was killed. Mrs....
From the Higdon (May) Collection. A newspaper from Blue Mountain, MS dated May 14, 1903. The paper features articles by the students and faculty of Blue Mountain College, including a lengthy article titled, "An Address", written by May Higdon’s...
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. Photograph of the remains of Antioch Baptist Church in Blue Mountain, Mississippi, after it was destroyed by fire in an act of racial violence. Three men stand looking at the remains of the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A mountain goat labeled, "Prime interest rate" is climbing a steep mountain and is standing on a very large "7 1/2 %." Below the goat on the mountain is a much smaller "7%." The...
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...
From the Higdon (May) Collection. A letter of recommendation from A. H. Ellett of Blue Mountain, Mississippi, May 21, 1903. It is addressed to "School Authorities", informing them of May Higdon's skills and personality.
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...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Part of the Earth (a globe with lines of latitude and longitude) forms the bottom of the cartoon. On top of the Earth is a mountain with a flat top (butte shape). On top of this...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Richard Nixon is nervous and uncertain as he rides in the back seat of a car driven by Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger, who is holding a sign that reads, "Immediage...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man with a globe for a head is climbing up the side of a mountain. He is using a pick and has a rope over his shoulder. The ledge he is about to reach is labeled, "21-nation...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A steep mountainside is labeled "'68 elections" and it has a narrow road winding around it that is barely wide enough for one car. From opposite directions come two cars, one...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Riedell. Henry Cabot Lodge tries to dislodge a huge boulder from a roadway on a mountain pass. A directional sign on the road labeled "Peace ? kilometers" points the way, but the boulder,...
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.; Charles C. Jacobs Jr. was born in Greenville, Mississippi, on January 13, 1921. Mr. Jacobs attended the University of Mississippi and returned to its law school after serving as a Marine during World War II. During his career, he was...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on August 15, 1978 with Mr. Thomas Y. Minniece. Minniece was born in Meridian, Mississippi on October 9, 1912. He received a BA degree from the University of Texas in 1933 and a law degree from the University of...
Oral history.; Born on March 28, 1914, Dr. Eleanor Byrd Walters was born in Gunnison, Mississippi. In 1934, she received her B.S. in education from Delta State Teachers College and went on to earn several advanced degrees. From 1934 through 1943...
From the Jan Pienkowski Papers.; Original ink illustration on tracing paper (p. 143) from Jan Pienkowski's The Amber Mountain and Other Folk Stories (1976). 23" x 34"
From the Jan Pienkowski Papers.; Original ink illustration on tracing paper (p. 115) for Jan Pienkowski's The Amber Mountain and Other Folk Stories (1976). 23" x 33"
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Louisiana governor John McKeithen, wearing mountaineering clothing, has a coil of rope attached to his belt. He is standing at the edge of a cliff, facing away from the edge,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. The background of the cartoon is the grid of a chart with an upward trend line that is labeled, "Cost of living index." At the lower end of the line is a man's leg with trousers...
