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...
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...
cartoon by Richard Wallmeyer; A boy and a girl stand before a water well labeled "Gov't [Government] survey reports water in peril in some areas of U.S." The boy, carrying a pail, is labeled "Jack" and the girl is labeled "Jill" Jack says to...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on January 31, 1977 with Jimmy Carter Fairley (born 1921). A native of Greene County, Mississippi, Mr. Fairley was active in the civil rights movement at the local, state, and national levels.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Bob Taylor. Richard Nixon stands in a motorboat that is being swamped by high waves. With one hand, he uses a pail to bail water. With the other hand, he pulls on the cord of the outboard...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A Soviet military officer is holding a pail, labeled "U.S. grain," for a horse to eat. The horse is hitched to a cart that holds a large box labeled "Ammunition" and a missile....
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Richard Locher. A farmer in overalls is holding a pail in one hand and a milking stool in the other. He is looking up at a giant cow's udder above him labeled "Milk prices."
Oral history.; Interviews conducted on May 11 and 12, 1992 with James C. Simpson (1930-1994). Simpson was elected to the Mississippi House of Representatives from Harrison County in 1964. He served six more consecutive terms covering more than 20...
Oral history.; Mr. David M. "Boo" Ferriss was born December 5, 1921, in Shaw, Mississippi. Mr. Ferriss graduated from Mississippi State University and served in the Army Air Corps in World War II. Spending forty-four years as a player and coach in...
