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 Eddie Germano. Uncle Sam sits at a table on which is a paper labeled "Paris talks with Viet Cong." He reacts with pain when he is hit in the back of the neck by a stone thrown from behind him...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on October 27, 2005 with Pamela L. Berry, a nurse who lived and worked in Biloxi a few days per week. She describes the devastation of Hurricane Katrina and her experience in the hospital immediately afterward.
Oral history.; Ms. Sarah Bernice Arnold was born January 25, 1913, in Saltillo, Mississippi. She lived through the Depression and the closing of the banks in the 1930s, at which time she went to work sewing in a factory in Tupelo. Her husband,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Reg Manning. Uncle Sam is sitting up in a hospital bed in a semi-private room. A thermometer labeled "Political fever" is in his mouth, and an icepack labeled "Energy headaches" is on his head....
Oral history.; An interview conducted on June 12, 2008 with Rev. S.V. and Virginia Adolph of Gulfport, MS. Mr. Adolph is a pastor at First Missionary Baptist Church in Gulfport and they discuss the church's role in recovery after Hurricane Katrina.
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.; Four interviews conducted on June 11, September 26, October 10, and November 21, 1985 with Ms. Ruby Magee in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Magee was born on August 12, 1940 in Tylertown, Mississippi. In 1962, she received a BA in...
Oral history.; Dr. S. Jay McDuffie was born in Nettleton, Mississippi, and grew up in Tupelo. He earned a B.S. degree at Mississippi State University, entered the U.S. Public Health Service during World War II and later earned his medical...
From the AAEC Editorial Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A stylized man with a head shaped like the Louisiana Superdome holds one hand up to his head and yells "Ouch!" He is shown to be in pain by the lines circling his head and the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ronald Reagan stands in front of a taller man, Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill, who is labeled "26 new House members." In the background is the dome of the U.S. Capitol,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man dressed in colonial costume is holding a sign with the words, "La. wants equity, not a special favor." On the horizon (curved edge of the Earth) is the U.S. Capitol dome....
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eddie Germano. A donkey labeled "Democrats" wears a black patch labeled "Mayor Daley" on one eye. Stars and marks of pain radiate out from the donkey's covered eye. The cartoon caption reads,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eddie Germano. A large donkey, labeled "Democrats" looks over its shoulder. The donkey shows distress and pain at the sight of a large thorn in its side, labeled, "Alabama's Gov. Wallace." The...
cartoon by Arthur Henrikson; The scene depicts a day at the beach."Organized crime" is shown as an octopus, and this octopus is in pain. A man symbolizing "Crime Commission hearings" bites a sandwich with one of the octopus' arms in it.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Knudsen. Uncle Sam is standing on the eastern coast of the United States facing west. Charles de Gaulle is standing in France. Uncle Sam flinches with pain at being hit on the head by a...
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 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...
