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.; An interview conducted on June 16, 2008 with Rod Dickson-Rishel, pastor of the Mississippi City United Methodist Church. Reverend Dickson-Rishel discusses his experiences during and after Hurricane Katrina.
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...
Photograph of members of Pride of Mississippi marching band in the stands at a football game. Some band members wear rain coats or slickers, while others wear bath robes and hold toilet plungers. At the bottom of the photograph is a banner with...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Paul Szep. An old, thin man sits on a throne with a very tall back. He wears a crown and clutches ermine lined robes around him. His feet are on a cushion. Around him on the floor are three...
From the AAEC Editorial Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A Saudi business man in raditional robes sits on a chair outside his gas station. The sign above the building reads "Saudi service." In front of him are gasoline pumps and a sign...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A map of the United States is filled in with the grid lines of a graph (or chart) and is labeled "College entrance test scores." The graph line runs from West Coast to East...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Menachem Begin stands, looking satisfied, in the doorway of a building labeled "Israel." Attached is a smaller building labeled "Golan Heights." An angry man in robes labeled...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ronald Reagan sits on a throne on a Mardi Gras float decorated to look like a throne room. He is wearing robes trimmed in fur and holding beads instead of throwing them. The...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Ed Valtman. Richard Nixon is shown as a king, dressed in royal robes trimmed in ermine. He is holding a sceptre and wearing a large crown. He is a small figure standing on a low cliff at the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Sherman Copelin stands at a podium which has a banner attached reading, "Copelin for city council." Behind him are two ghosts of Copelin wearing white robes. One is labeled,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Part of the Earth (a globe with lines of latitude and longitude) forms the bottom of the cartoon. On top of the Earth is a mountain with a flat top (butte shape). On top of this...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Associate Justice Abe Fortas is on the steps of the Supreme Court building, wearing his robes. He is fending off bricks which are being thrown at him. The paths of two bricks...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by John Collins. Five of six panels show world leaders reading newspaper headlines of Lyndon Johnson's decision not to seek reelection in 1968. Canada's Lester B. Pearson says, "Those Americans!...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Dennis Renault. An elephant is tied to a bed labeled "Watergate," one leg to each bedpost. Gerald Ford, dressed in robes of a priest, is kneeling beside the bed with hands folded in prayer....
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eddie Germano. A man labeled “New Chief Justice Abe Fortas" is shown wearing judge’s robes, carrying a briefcase and holding a book. He stands in a road that splits into three paths,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Jon Kennedy. A man in judge's robes (Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas) stands in the center of a whirlwind. Rings of the wind are labeled "GOP-Dixie opposition, Pornography decisions, White...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Jon Kennedy. A man in judge's robes labeled "Fortas" and carrying a briefcase walks up the steps to the Supreme Court building. A ragged looking dog labeled "Wolfson affair" follows him. The...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by John Riedell. A man in judge's robes labeled "Justice Fortas" stands holding a gavel at his side and looking over his right shoulder. Behind him is the very large shadow he is casting, labeled...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on October 10, 2005 with Emma West, a retired resident of Gulfport who describes surviving Hurricane Katrina's floodwaters and dealing with the day-to-day struggles of the storm's aftermath.
