Photograph of a party at the president's home hosted by Dr. and Mrs. R.C. Cook. Dr. Cook is seen on the right. The home was later renamed Ogletree Alumni House.
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 24, 1972 with Dr. William Penn Davis at his home in Jackson, Mississippi. Davis was born in Union County, Mississippi on August 5, 1903. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Mississippi College in...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on September 17, 1980 with the Honorable Tony Byrne, former mayor of Natchez, Mississippi at his office in the Natchez City Hall. Byrne was born on May 18, 1936 in Natchez, Mississippi. He attended Mississippi...
Oral history.; Born on March 28, 1914, Dr. Eleanor Byrd Walters was born in Gunnison, Mississippi. In 1934, she received her B.S. in education from Delta State Teachers College and went on to earn several advanced degrees. From 1934 through 1943...
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.; Peoples discusses his presidency at Jackson State University, racism in the Marine Corps in the 1940s, the Mississippi Humanities Council, and race relations in Mississippi.
Oral history.; Mrs. Alyce West Richardson was born on August 2, 1930, in Clarksdale, Mississippi. She graduated from Cleveland High School and Delta State Teachers College and worked as the secretary-treasurer of West Implement Company, Inc., and...
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...
Transcribed copy of a report by the General Legislative Committee of Mississippi based on findings from an investigation of the occupation of the University of Mississippi in 1962 by the United States Department of Justice. Action was taken in...
Photograph of university President Shelby Thames in the president's box of M. M. Roberts stadium. Thames is looking down on the field. Two unidentified men are in the background. Featured in the Talon, vol. 56, no. 1 (Summer 2002) on page 21.
Photograph of the Sunken Garden, later the site of McLemore Hall. The garden was built in 1932 as a jobs project during the early part of the Depression. Lake Byron is located just to the right of this picture. Both areas were part of a campus...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Hy Rosen. Richard Nixon reclines on a sofa with a book titled The Final Days, written by Woodward and Bernstein, lying open face down on his body. Behind the sofa, a series of four pictures...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Stampone. Richard Nixon sits behind a desk in his office. A long line of middle-aged men have entered the office. Some of the men are labeled: "Fulbright, McGovern, Mansfield, Cooper,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eddie Germano. Richard Nixon stands outside the open door of the "GOP dressing room." With one hand, he points toward the dressing room while he holds a suit coat and slacks in the other. The...
cartoon by Reg Manning; A scroll of paper labeled "Congressional spending" is animated as a laughing cat. The cat is laughing at a surprised looking little bird marked with a dollar sign that is labeled "President's budgeted surplus".
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 November 3, 2005 with Barbra Kay ""Babs"" Faulk. Director of the South Central Mississippi Chapter of the American Red Cross, Ms. Faulk discusses her experiences during and after Hurricane Katrina.
