Oral history.; Three interviews conducted on April 28, 30 and May 7, 1981 with Mr. Claude Ramsay at his office in Jackson, Mississippi. Ramsay was born in 1916 in Ocean Springs, Mississippi. He served briefly in the Civilian Conservation Corps...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 23, 1977 with Mr. Jimmy Swan. Swan was born in Cullman County, Alabama. He ran away from home when he was thirteen or fourteen and ended up in Wayne County, Mississippi. Swan sang in nightclubs and...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on July 12, 1973 with Mr. Jerry Clower at his office in Yazoo City, Mississippi. Clower was born in 1926 at Route Four, Liberty, Mississippi. After graduating from high school, he joined the U.S. Navy. On...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on August 10, 2006 with Zondra Anderson. Miss Anderson was a case manager for Hurricane Katrina evacuees in Fairfax County at the Northern Virginia Family Services Headquarters in Oakton, Virginia.
Oral history.; Interview conducted on June 26, 1979 with Mr. William J. Simmons at his office in Jackson, Mississippi. Simmons was born in 1916 in Utica, Mississippi. He attended Millsaps College and Mississippi College, graduating from the...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on November 3, 1993 with Horace H. Harned Jr. (born 1920). He was a former Mississippi State legislator, a member of the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission, and an active segregationist during the years of...
Oral history.; Four interviews conducted on October 1, 2, and 23 of 1975, and July 1, 1976 with Mr. Hugh Clegg at his home in Anguilla, Mississippi. Clegg was born on July 17, 1898 in Mathiston, Mississippi. Clegg graduated from Millsaps...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 26, 1977 with William Joel Blass (born 1917). As a lawyer in 1952, he successfully prosecuted the Boyce Holleman case by proving that voter fraud had kept Holleman from winning. Beginning in 1953, he...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on May 18, 1972 with Ms. Ruby Magee at College Hall at the University of Southern Mississippi. Magee was born in 1940 in Tylertown, Mississippi. In 1962, she received a BA in history and political science from...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. The cartoon is divided into two panels. On the left side, Jimmy Carter has been kicked down a flight of stairs that form a downward trend line on a large graph that is labeled,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Second term Louisiana gubernatorial candidate Edwin Edwards, dressed in swimming trunks, surfs on a wave labeled, "2nd term popularity." A buoy in the water nearby points toward...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man with a "domed stadium" for a head plays a guitar and sings, "Downtown...Where all the lights are bright...Downtown, Loyola and Poydras...Downtown...Forget all your...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man labeled "Labor party" is standing outside the door of a room, looking in. Margaret Thatcher sits at a desk yelling into a megaphone, "Early election call." On the side of...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A bull labeled, "Stock market optimism" has a ring in its nose labeled "Economic good news." The bull has butted Ronald Reagan into the air. Reagan is labeled, "Popularity low."...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Ed Valtman. Lyndon Johnson stands in front of a cracked mirror straightening the knot in his tie. The mirror is labeled "Polls," and the crack is labeled "Popularity." The crack in the mirror...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on June 8, 1976, with Will D. Campbell. Mr. Campbell, born in Amite County, Mississippi, was ordained as a pastor at the age of 17. He first became aware of race relations during time spent in the military, when...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on June 24, 1998 with J.C. Fairley, Mamie Phillips, and Charles Phillips, who were all active in the NAACP during the civil rights movement of the 1950s and the 1960s.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on March 22, 1979 with Eddie Carthan (born 1949). Mr. Carthan taught school at Durant Attendance Center and at Saints College in Lexington, Mississippi, and has owned and operated several businesses in Tchula,...
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...