Oral history.; Interview conducted on May 17, 1972 with Associate Justice Thomas Pickens Brady, of the Supreme Court of Mississippi in his chambers in Jackson, Mississippi. This is the second part of an interview conducted on March 4, 1972 with...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on May 11, 1982 with Professor N.R. Burger at his residence in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Burger was born on April 7, 1909 in Brookhaven, Mississippi. In 1932, he completed his undergraduate degree from Alcorn...
Oral history.; Biloxi Police Director Tommy Moffett was born March 2, 1950, in Taylorsville, Mississippi. He grew up in a household of ten siblings, and they all helped in sharecropping until Mr. Moffett was fifteen years old. His childhood was...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Richard Locher. Two thugs walk away from a crime victim in an alley. The larger of the two men carries a handgun and cash. The smaller man, with "CAT" on his shirt, carries a handgun and a (?)...
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 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,...
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Published in Philadelphia by Benjamin Warner, No. 171, Market St. S. Probasco, in 1821. This book is a sequel to The courtship, marriage, and pic-nic dinner of Robin Red-breast and Jenny Wren. ...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Jimmy Carter walks a young boy out to a wood shed. The boy is labeled “Public.” Carter is thinking "1980" and carries a wooden paddle labeled "New energy plan." The boy’s...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. In the foreground of the cartoon is an office desk with a blotter and name plate that reads, "Job of Angola warden." A sign tacked to the front of the desk reads, "Help wanted:...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A student wearing a T-shirt that reads, "Student's story of horror" is running away from a prison that has a sign which reads, "Parish prison twentieth century A.D." Above the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Ed Valtman. J. William Fulbright crouches inside a doghouse on the side lawn of the White House. The doghouse and the lawn are covered with snow. Lyndon Johnson's beagle, Him, is barking at...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. Two crosses with crucified men are shown, the closer one wearing a crown of thorns. The base of a third cross is seen in the foreground. In front of the prominent cross, a man's...
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...
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...
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.; Two interviews conducted on November 12, 1981 and February 6, 1982 with Judge J. P. Coleman. Coleman was born on December 9, 1914 in Fentress, Mississippi. After attending the University of Mississippi, he was invited to work in...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on August 2, 2007 and October 9, 2007 with Edmond Boudreaux, Jr., a longtime Mississippi Gulf Coast resident and active local historian of the region. Mr. Boudreaux discusses the impact of Hurricane Katrina on...
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 August 25, 1971 with Erskine Caldwell (1903-1987). Mr. Caldwell was a prominent American author whose works include Tobacco Road, (1932) and God's Little Acre (1933).
Oral history.; An interview conducted on January 31, 1977 with Jimmy Carter Fairley (born 1921). A native of Greene County, Mississippi, Mr. Fairley was active in the civil rights movement at the local, state, and national levels.
