A collection of eight 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.; Reverend Edmund Howell was born on November 14, 1917, in Jackson, Alabama. His father worked at the locks on the Tombigbee River. Reverend Howell spent about three years in the United States military service in the South Pacific. ...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on July 22, 1981 with Mr. Charlie Parker at his home in Laurel, Mississippi. Parker was born in the early 1890s in Enterprise, Mississippi. After his family moved to Laurel around the turn of the century, Parker...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A fortune teller named Madame Clarity looks into a crystal ball and sees, "La. fiscal crisis." She appears dismayed. A man sits in a chair opposite, and he is labeled, "Special...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man and a donkey are engaged in a tug of war. The man labeled, "Demo. State Central Committee" is pulling on the reins and the donkey, labeled, "Demos for Treen," is pulling...
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 March 12, 2008 with Teri Eaton. An agent with State Farm Insurance, Mrs. Eaton discusses her experiences during and after Hurricane Katrina.
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...
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.; Interview conducted on January 26, 1993 with Pete Johnson, nephew of Paul B. Johnson Jr., at his home in Madison, Mississippi. Pete Johnson was born on May 12, 1948 in Alexandria, Louisiana. He received his B.S. degree in business...
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 November 6, 1979 with Dr. Arthur Lewis, emeritus professor of mathematics, emeritus professor of physics and astronomy, and emeritus Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Mississippi. Lewis...
Oral history.; Born in Tylertown, Mississippi, on January 22, 1938, Ms. Augustine M. Magee grew up on a truck farm, helping with the daily chores to keep the farm running. She remembers her childhood as a happy time although while she worked on...
Oral history.; Interview conducted with Dr. Michael Smith, a professor of criminal justice at the University of Southern Mississippi and a journalist during the 1960s. Smith was born in 1942 in Waterloo, Iowa. After his family's move to Jackson,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards, dressed as a magician, performs a trick by pulling a rabbit labeled "Tax package" out of a hat. Two men on the front row are labeled,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. New Orleans Mayor Ernest Morial is standing before a shop with a sign above it labeled, “Swap Shoppe.” A grandfather’s clock is in the window, but not standing straight up...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ronald Reagan is dressed as a magician, and he is trying to pull a rabbit from the upturned hat on the table before him. In his mind's eye, Reagan is seeing a rabbit and the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man labeled "School board" and a woman who has dropped her protest sign are pulling at the arms of a school child, who is stretched between them. The protest sign reads,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletche. Louisiana governor Edwin Edwards is pulling on the reins of a donkey that is labeled "Uncommitted slate." The donkey's head is over a fence which has a sign that reads, "Custer's...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Louisiana governor John McKeithen is pulling a covering off a huge dollar bill sculpture which is mounted on a base labeled "Governor's program." The covering is labeled, "New...
