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 Eldon Pletcher. President Richard Nixon sits before at a table on which are the pieces of a huge jigsaw puzzle. Put together, the pieces will create a map of the United States. Some pieces are...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on June 19, 2006 with artist Lori K. Gordon. Ms. Gordon discusses her community, Clermont Harbor, Mississippi, before Hurricane Katrina, as well as her experiences afterward. Pieces from Ms. Gordon's work, The...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on February 21, 2007 with Ruth Christian, who describes losing her home to Hurricane Katrina and the struggles that ensued after the storm on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
Oral history.; Interview conducted on November 16, 1977 with George Rogers (born 1927). Mr. Rogers, a Rhodes Scholar, was elected to the Mississippi House of Representatives, where he served for more than twenty years. He became well known for his...
From the University of Southern Mississippi Art Museum collection. Ink on paper certificate issued by the Commander and Chief of the United Confederate Veterans confirming W.H. Hardy as Historian of the Mississippi Chapter. Dated 6 June 1903.
From the University of Southern Mississippi Art Museum collection. Copper and brass repoussé of the Hindu god Shiva with some colorful plastic decorations, by an unknown artist.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on July 30, 2007 with Cheryl Ann Blain, an engineer and oceanographer at Stennis Space Center. Dr. Blain describes her personal struggles with Hurricane Katrina as well as many of the environmental and...
Oral history.; Miss Oseola McCarty was born on March 7, 1908, in Wayne County, Mississippi. McCarty attended Eureka Elementary School until the sixth grade when she dropped out to care for an aunt who was ill. While still in school, McCarty began...
Oral history.; Born on November 6, 1916, in Quito, Mississippi, Mrs. Martha Sisson Miller was the daughter of John William Sisson and Myrlea Johnson Sisson. She attended elementary and high school at Indianola City School. She attended Sunflower...
Transcribed copy of a typewritten letter from Jill Wakeman (Goodman) to friends, dated July 8, 1966, in which she discusses her friendship with Mrs. Simms, her hostess in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. She also includes details about her experiences...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. In the foreground, a vendor's panel truck is parked at the curb in front of the Louisiana State Capitol. The truck has "Dave's pies" on the side and an image that resembles a...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. An elephant poses as a motion picture director, wearing sunglasses, beret, polka dot shirt. The elephant has a cigarette on a long holder in his mouth. He is holding a clapboard...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Vic Runtz. A dove labeled "Peace hopes" carries an olive branch in its beak and stands on a round table in a room while looking up. The table has a sign that reads, "Paris talks" and is...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Ed Valtman. A hippopotamus with the long ears and brush tail of a donkey and labeled "94th Democratic Congress" stands in a large, round circus or zoo cage with its mouth wide open. It is...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Leonid Brezhnev and Uncle Sam sit on opposite sides of a rocket labeled "Arms Limitation Talks." The rocket is also marked with the atomic symbol. Part of the rocket body is...