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.; Mrs. Edith Ruff Thomas was born on February 12, 1920. She grew up on a farm that became well-established, providing products throughout Tupelo. In 1936, she lived through the Tupelo tornado, and in 1937 she was graduated from Tupelo...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Vic Runtz. The scene is an artist's studio. A painting of the U.S. Capitol dome is on the easel and is labeled, "The Capitol scene." The drape is hanging from one edge of the painting. In the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Edward Kennedy is dressed as a painter. In one hand, he holds a paint brush and in the other a large coloring book called "'80 and the polls." The face of Jimmy Carter is on the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. An artist wearing a smock and beret and with a paint brush behind his ear is labeled "'81 Legislagure." He is holding a painter's palette in one hand and a small frame labeled...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher; A painter is labeling a tanker flying the New Orleans Saints logo flag with, "The Bum Phillips." Steinberg and Rosenbloom are jumping off the ship.
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...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on June 25, 2007 with Lieutenant General John C. ""Clark"" Griffith. General Griffith describes his experiences during and after Hurricane Katrina, as well as his involvement in commissions planning for the...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on February 21, 2007 with Aimee Gautier-Dugger, who describes her experience waiting out the storm in Gautier, the city her ancestors founded, and the struggle to regroup after the storm.
Oral history.; Interview conducted on February 26, 1974 with Mr. Brodie Crump at his home in Greenville, Mississippi. Crump was born in 1898 in Greenville, Mississippi. After attending Mississippi A&M College, now Mississippi State University,...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on February 21, 2007 with Leroy Johnson, longtime Pascagoula, MS, resident, who describes his experience there during Hurricane Katrina and the devastation it wrought on the community and his personal life.
Oral history.; Born on January 19, 1958, in Greenwood, Mississippi, Jon Levingston grew up in a Jewish family in Cleveland, Mississippi. Mr. Levingston attended a boarding school in Rome, Georgia and then the University of Georgia and the Virginia...
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.; Interview conducted on September 2, 1981 with Mrs. Irene Napier at her home in Mount Olive, Mississippi. Napier was born on December 21, 1917 at Mount Olive in Covington, Mississippi. After having studied two years at Jones County...
Oral history.; Zella McNair Weathersby was born January 1, 1929, in Mt. Olive, Mississippi. Mrs. Weathersby graduated from high school from Depriest (now known as Earl Travillion) in Hattiesburg. She attended Jackson State College and later did...
From the Hazelton (Margaret J.) Freedom Summer Collection; One black-and-white photograph, taken by Rev. Frazer Thomason, of three local African-American teenagers in the community center in Clarksdale, Mississippi. Two young women sit on either...
