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...
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...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on August 21, 1997 with Rims Barber (born 1936). In 1964, he participated in Mississippi Freedom Summer with the National Council of Churches and returned to Mississippi with the Delta Ministry in 1965 to work in...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 8, 1994 with Mrs. Elizabeth Price (born 1897). In the mid-1960s, Mrs. Price worked for the Civil Rights Commission, investigating and documenting issues of mistreatment as well as recruiting sympathizers....
Yearbook page featuring photograph of B. F. Valentine of Jones County and the poem, "Our Dear Old M.N.C." by M.D. Dunlap; The New Spirit, 1915, page 41; 7 x 10
From the University of Southern Mississippi Art Museum collection. Oil on masonite painting of trees on a hillside with mountains and a valley with a river running through it in the background, by Andr Betz.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. New Orleans Mayor Ernest Morial and two men stand by the edge of a stream in a woodland setting, and they are watching the stream flow by. A sign nearby is labeled, "Cutback...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. In the foreground of the cartoon is an office desk with a blotter and name plate that reads, "Job of Angola warden." A sign tacked to the front of the desk reads, "Help wanted:...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man is running away from ghosts labeled, "Vietnam...Inflation...Crime" and past a sign labeled, "The fabulous '70's." The sign shape includes a direction that is the same as...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher; At a political convention a man labeled, "The Old Campaigner" stands at the podium. State signs from the delegates stick up from the crowd.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by William Sandeson. Richard Nixon and Charles de Gaulle are in a dressmaker's studio near two dressmaker's models which have puffed out chests. The models, labeled "Past snubs" and "Ego," are...
cartoon by Arthur Henrikson; An old man and a young man have parked their car near a stream in a clearing in the woods. The young man kneels by the stream bed and puts his hand into the polluted water. The old man stands next to the young man and...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Jon Kennedy. Richard Nixon carries a bouquet of flowers labeled "NATO talks," a heart-shaped box labeled "European priority," and a gift box labeled "de Gaulle visit" as he walks toward the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Stampone. A large man labeled "Politics" is smoking a cigar and sitting on top of a desk in an office. He is holding a stack of letters in envelopes, and he is tossing them one by one into...
Oral history.; Ms. Margaret Keith Andresen was born in Biloxi, Mississippi on May 3, 1943. She attended Perkinston High School and the Perkinston Campus of Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College. As a teacher at Moss Point High School from...
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 June 18, 2006 with Kai Drobish, a ceramicist and resident of Bay St. Louis. Mr. Drobish discusses his experiences during and after Hurricane Katrina.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on April 26, 2006 with Ursula Daxecker. A native of Austria, Daxecker came to New Orleans as a graduate student. After her home was flooded in Hurricane Katrina, Daxecker moved to Northern Virginia. She has...
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.
