Materials in this collection were donated by William M. Colmer: First accession-1970. Additional information online at: http://www.lib.usm.edu/legacy/archives/m024.htm
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on March 29 and April 13, 1977 with Mr. Amzie Moore at his home in Cleveland, Mississippi. Moore was born on September 23, 1911 in rural Mississippi, on the county line of Carroll and Grenada Counties. In...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Two men in an office are singing, one of them while playing a guitar. The man with the guitar is at a desk with a name plate labeled, "Orleans Levee Board." Papers on the desk...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eddie Germano. Richard Nixon has turned a mailbox upside down and is shaking the letters out of it. Letters are labeled "High costs; Political patronage ; Obsolete facilities; Etc." The cartoon...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Arthur Henrikson. A small Richard Nixon, labeled "Administration," is holding a letter labeled "New postal service" and he wants to place the letter in the mailbox in the background of the...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on September 20, 1979 with Dr. Dewey Lane at the Robinson Lane Surgical Clinic in Pascagoula, Mississippi. Lane was born on September 27, 1934 in Starkville, Mississippi. He attended Vanderbilt University from...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on April 16, 1985 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.; 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...
Oral history.; Mr. Roberts Wilson Jr. was born July 6, 1941, in Rosedale, Mississippi. After attending both Vanderbilt University and the University of Mississippi, he went to Washington. D.C., during the mid 1960s where he worked in the office of...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A large man with a cigar in his mouth sits behind a desk with a name plate labeled, "Real Estate Comm." Papers on the desk are labeled, “Falsified test scores" and "Licenses...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ronald Reagan is holding a very long sheet of paper labeled "Campaign promises." It is so long that it is wrapped several times around his legs. He says, "I've got to cut...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eddie Germano. President Lyndon Johnson and Hubert Humphrey stand in the Oval Office (curved floor), with draperies, candelabra, and portrait on the wall. Humphrey is portrayed as a young boy,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eddie Germano. President Lyndon Johnson pedals in the first seat of a bicycle built for two. Behind him sits Robert F. Kennedy. Johnson apparently thinks Hubert Humphrey sits in the second...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Jon Kennedy. Senator J. William Fulbright wears the apron and hat of a grocery store produce section employee. He stands with his back to a huge display of fruit labeled, "Fulbright's...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Vic Runtz. A mailman in colonial garb rides a horse through a desert scene (cactus and bleached bones can be seen). The horse, with a mail pouch on the saddle and bandages on left hind leg and...
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...
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.; 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...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on June 9, 1977 with the Honorable Herman B. DeCell in his office in Yazoo City, Mississippi. DeCell enrolled at the University of Mississippi but with the start of World War II, he was called to service. After...
Oral history.; Three interviews conducted on December 12, 1975, January 19, 1976, and January 23, 1991 with Mr. C.J. Duckworth in his office in Jackson, Mississippi. Duckworth was born in Summerland, Mississippi, Smith County, on February 25,...
