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 John Riedell. John F. Kennedy is climbing the face of a mountain, using a rope, and has almost reached the summit. He sees Nikita Khrushchev at the top with an axe next to his climbing rope....
cartoon by Ed Valtman; Three men are climbing the face of a cliff, and they are all connected to each other by a rope. A man labeled "Living Cost" leads the way. A man labeled "Interest Rates" grips the rope by which the other two men are...
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...
From the University of Southern Mississippi Art Museum collection. Colorful mixed media piece made with painted found objects, canvas, rope, ribbon, paper, and acrylic paint, by Mandy Kuykendall Buchancan.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ronald Reagan and a man labeled "Budget director Stockman" stand near a guillotine. A man labeled "Bureaucracy" is on his knees bound with rope, and his head is under the raised...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Ed Valtman. Uncle Sam is shown standing tall as a giant, shaking his fist and boasting, "We're the most powerful nation in the world." At ground level, a small Ayatollah Khomeini has tied Uncle...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Vic Runtz. In the background (upper area) of the cartoon, President Richard Nixon mulls over a paper entitled "Pentagon Review." In the foreground, two figures engage in a tug of war. One of...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Riedell. Unfinished cartoon on the reverse side of cartoon number 833. An American soldier is climbing a steep, rocky surface labeled "Vietnam" without ropes. He carries his rifle and a...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on August 31, 2009 with David Elliott. A newscaster at WLOX-TV, Mr. Elliott describes his experiences during and after Hurricane Katrina.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on June 18, 1980 with Charles Hudson Griffin (born 1926). Griffin served in the office of U. S. Congressman John Bell Williams until 1968 when he campaigned for the position himself. He served three terms...
Oral history.; Mrs. Lorita Nelson Jones was born on July 19, 1909, in Biloxi, Mississippi. Her mother's family were originally from New Orleans, Louisiana, of Creole heritage; her grandmother, Olivia Lewis, spoke only in French. Her father Lamar...
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.; Two interviews conducted on August 23 and October 30, 1974 with Mr. Joe Reyer at his home in Poplarville, Mississippi. Reyer was born in 1893 in Pearl River County, Mississippi. He attended an agricultural high school, now Pearl...
From the Emilie and Marie Stapp Collection. Amelia Siedler was 10 years when she created this diary documenting her family's move from Iowa to Arkansas in a covered wagon from 28 December 1895 - 27 February 1896.
From the Kate Greenaway Papers. Kate Greenaway's Birthday Book for Children verses by Mrs. Sale Barker, illustrated by Kate Greenaway (London: George Routledge, [1880]). Pencil sketch for plate facing p. 86. "Jumping Rope." (16 x 14 cm.)
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Louisiana governor John McKeithen, wearing mountaineering clothing, has a coil of rope attached to his belt. He is standing at the edge of a cliff, facing away from the edge,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Stampone. Richard Nixon has lassoed together a man labeled "Special interest politics" and three cylindrical characters with faces labeled "Air pollution; Water pollution; Pesticide...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man labeled "Quebec" is in a dinghy tied to a very large ship labeled "Canada" which is moving through rough, choppy water. The man is holding a knife up ready to cut the rope...
