Materials in this collection were donated by William M. Colmer: First accession-1970. Additional information online at: http://www.lib.usm.edu/legacy/archives/m024.htm
Oral history.; Mr. Jeremiah O'Keefe was born in Ocean Springs, Mississippi, on July 12, 1923. Mr. O'Keefe attended Sacred Heart Academy for high school. He entered the U.S. Navy and received his wings in the U.S. Marine Corps in May, 1943. Having...
Oral history.; Mr. Pascal Nevin Sledge was born February 6, 1921, in the Alva Community east of Duck Hill, Mississippi. He attended Cleveland High School, Culver Military Academy, Delta State University, and General Motors' Chevrolet Dealer...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on February 26, 1974 with Mr. Brodie Crump at his home in Greenville, Mississippi. Crump was born in 1898 in Greenville, Mississippi. After attending Mississippi A&M College, now Mississippi State University,...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on June 18, 1992 and March 9, 1993 with Mr. C.B. "Buddie" Newman at his home in Valley Park, Mississippi. Newman was born on May 8, 1921 in Valley Park, Mississippi. In 1942, he left his job with the Southern...
Oral history.; Mr. Edward Sternberg was born on October 22, 1901, in Louisville, Kentucky. He was educated in private schools and graduated from Grady School, Louisville, in June 1915. He worked in a variety of jobs as a boy and began his first...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. A bowling ball labeled "Action at GM" has hit and scattered a set of pins labeled "Related industries." Dollar signs radiate from the strike zone. Runtz's signature cat peers into...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Craig Macintosh. Richard Nixon is shown as Superman, with a large "N" on his chest. He is standing on railroad tracks blocking the movement of a train labeled "Nationwide rail strike."
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 April 16, 1985 with Mr. Thomas Y. Minniece. Minniece was born in Meridian, Mississippi on October 9, 1912. He received a BA degree from the University of Texas in 1933 and a law degree from the University of...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on May 3, 1982 with Reverend James Randolph, former pastor of St. Paul's Methodist Church, at the parsonage in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Randolph was born on April 4, 1949 in Rankin County, Mississippi, near...
Customs form for the Confederate States of America recording the shipment of whiskey via the Mississippi Central Railroad to J. P. Atkinson at Holly Springs, Mississippi, dated 13 May 1861.
From the Map Collection. A map of the eastern United States excluding the majority of Florida and Maine. Western bounding is the approximate location of the Mississippi River.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Merle Cunnington. Railroad tracks extend from the front center of the cartoon into the distance. A sheet of paper with "Dwindling supply of energy" lies on the railroad ties in the foreground....
From the AAEC Editorial Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Two men dressed as railroad engineers are sitting on top of a railway car that is part of a longer train. The car, labeled "85-day regular session," is the next to last, followed by the...
From the AAEC Editorial Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ronald Reagan, wearing a train engineer's cap, drives a long train, the engine of which is labeled "Recession line." George H. W. Bush, also wearing an engineer's cap, is in the engine...
From the AAEC Editorial Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev [?] sit in a car with their arms folded in a defiant pose. The car is stalled on railroad tracks and has been there for enough time to have cobwebs...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Louisiana governor Dave Treen is dressed as a railroad conductor, and he is holding a large stopwatch labeled, "Capital outlay timetable." He is thinking about a train engine...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Three identical-looking men are sitting on the platform outside a railway depot reading books. The depot is labeled, "Louisiana state government." The men are labeled,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Jack Jurden. In the foreground of the cartoon, Richard Nixon is tied to railroad tracks with rope that is labeled "Demo Congress." The tracks extend toward the horizon where a large train is...