Oral history.; An interview conducted on June 18, 1980 with Charles Hudson Griffin (born 1926). Griffin served in the office of U. S. Congressman John Bell Williams until 1968 when he campaigned for the position himself. He served three terms...
From the Emilie and Marie Stapp Collection. Amelia Siedler was 10 years when she created this diary documenting her family's move from Iowa to Arkansas in a covered wagon from 28 December 1895 - 27 February 1896.
A collection of ten 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...
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...
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.; Mr. Harold Ray Presley was born in Tupelo, Mississippi, on October 5, 1948. In 1968 he was drafted into the Army and served in Vietnam for four years. Mr. Presley married and became the father of two sons and a daughter. Elvis...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on October 22, 1996 with Mrs. Josephine Clemons Bell (born 1909). Her teaching career in elementary education in the public school of Natchez-Adams County spans twenty-nine and a half years. After retiring in...
Oral history.; Reverend Sammie Rash was born in Sunflower County, Mississippi, on July 31, 1942. His parents were sharecroppers, and in 1949 they moved the family to the McGann plantation in Bolivar County, where Reverend Rash grew up. In 1963...
Oral history.; Mr. George A. Stevens was born in 1910 in Forrest County, Mississippi. He attended Hattiesburg public schools but graduated from high school in Anthony, New Mexico. Mr. Stevens returned to attend The University of Southern...
cartoon by Ed Valtman; Gerald Ford passes a document to a man wearing overalls and a button-down shirt with rolled sleeves. Ford has just signed the document and says,"Better late than never" The document reads "Pensions Plans Guaranteed Against...
cartoon by Eddie Germano;"Steel management" is represented by a businessman."Labor" is a man wearing overalls. Labor places a "pay raise" slip in steel management's back pants pocket. In the second frame, steel management places a "price...
From the Zoya Zeman Freedom Summer Collection. Transcribed copy of the diary of Dean Hay, a Presbyterian minister from Nebraska, in which he details his trip to Hattiesburg, Mississippi, in February of 1964. The goal of this trip was to aid in the...
Oral history.; Gwin E. Douglas was born on November 9, 1923, in State Line, Mississippi. Douglas graduated from Leakesville High School in 1942 and worked briefly with his father in the naval store and the timber businesses until he was drafted...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Ed Valtman. Newly elected President Jimmy Carter has made a visit to Plains, Georgia. The sign on a building reads, "Jimmy Carter, Plains, Georgia." He prepares to get into a car as Plains...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by John Riedell. President Richard Nixon, dressed in overalls and a plaid shirt, sits on the raised, wooden porch of a house. A dog lies at his side. Nixon holds a knife and a log, from which he...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. New Orleans Mayor Ernest Morial, dressed in overalls, hammers a sign to a brick building. The sign reads, "Every litter bit hurts! New city penalties: municipal court special...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Next door to the "State of La. Treasurer's Office," Louisiana governor Edwin Edwards is building a "State Fiscal Advisory Committee" building, smaller but in other respects...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Walter Mondale, Jesse Jackson, and Gary Hart are dressed in overalls, and Mondale carries a hammer. They have built a tall wooden platform with a plank labeled "Unity" attached...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Yasir Arafat, labeled “PLO,” stands on a large block labeled "Cornerstone for peace" and yells, "Call for an oil boycott, it'll lead to war." Jimmy Carter, Menachem Begin,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Gene Basset. Barry Goldwater, Nelson Rockefeller, and Richard Nixon stand behind the doors of a saloon, labeled, "For men only." Above the doorway is the sign, "Presidential primaries."...