From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man sits at a desk with a "Regional Transit Authority" nameplate. He appears to be rolling up his shirt sleeves. Behind him on the wall is a large poster, the top half of...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A golfer is in the foreground and behind him is the rolling terrain of a golf course. He is wearing a shirt labeled, "Public Affairs Research Council" and is standing next to 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...
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...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Gene Basset. A very short husband, standing between Lyndon Johnson and his large, fierce wife, does a double-take. Johnson's open right hand is extended toward the husband. Johnson's other hand...
cartoon by Ed Valtman; A man tiptoes in from what appears to have been quite a party at the Republican National Convention. He wears a "Goldwater" hat, a "Barry" pin, and he holds a "Barry for President" sign. At his door, a woman labeled "GOP...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. New Orleans mayor Ernest Morial is writing on a chalkboard: "Rolling along." Sweat drop show he is relieved. He holds a newspaper with headlines, "Buses moving...Tentative pact...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Ed Valtman. Richard Nixon and two men are in the control tower of an airport. They wear white lab coats and appear to be engineers or aircraft designers. Before them on the table are...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man labeled "Legislature," wearing a crown, is standing amid a pile of rolled papers labeled, "Appropriation bills." Other appropriations bills are rolling out of a chute on a...
Copy of a typewritten newsletter, the Mantinband Megillah, from Rabbi Charles and Anna Mantinband to friends dated 1963, in which the Mantinbands discuss events in their life during the past year. Included in the letter is information about their...
Typewritten letter from Matthew Zwerling to his parents, Israel and Florence Zwerling, dated July 3, 1964. Discusses a recent meeting that was well-attended, as well as the COFO (Council of Federated Organizations) discouragement of public...
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 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 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...
A collection of six 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.; Interview conducted on October 25, 1976 with Bert Fells, a Hattiesburg native. Mr. Fells served in the Air Force from 1966 to 1969, including a tour in Vietnam. In 1972, he returned to Mississippi to live and became director of...
Oral history.; Mr. George A. Stevens was born in 1910 in Forrest County, Mississippi. He attended Hattiesburg public schools but graduated from high school in Anthony, New Mexico. Mr. Stevens returned to attend The University of Southern...
Oral history.; Norman discusses the creation and work of the Mississippi Humanities Council, the people responsible for its early development, and its programs concerning race relations and public education.
Oral history.; Page discusses his family, his experiences as a black physician, the civil rights movement, his work in state politics, and the Mississippi Humanities Council.
Oral history.; Dr. Sam Spinks was born on March 19, 1921, in Henleyfield, Mississippi. Dr. Spinks attended Henleyfield High School, Pearl River Junior College, The University of Southern Mississippi and The University of Florida. He served in the...