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 February 21, 2007 with Ruth Christian, who describes losing her home to Hurricane Katrina and the struggles that ensued after the storm on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A sculptor labeled, "Senate," is sitting on the scaffold in front of the partly finished sculpture of "SALT." Above his head is "Reservations," and he appears doubtful. Jimmy...
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 University of Southern Mississippi Art Museum collection. White blown and cast sulfide glass sculpture of three apothecary bottles stacked on top of each other, by Stephan Paul Day.
From the University of Southern Mississippi Art Museum collection. Oil on canvas painting of a woman, possibly nude, sitting in a living room, by Berndt Savig.
From the University of Southern Mississippi Art Museum collection. Oil pastel on paper painting of sunflowers in a blue vase sitting on a table, by Mandy Kuykendall Buchancan.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Louisiana governor John McKeithen is pulling a covering off a huge dollar bill sculpture which is mounted on a base labeled "Governor's program." The covering is labeled, "New...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Ed Valtman. In front of the United Nations building, a hen labeled "UN Assembly" sits atop a gigantic egg labeled "Peaceful settlement of Vietnam War." U.N. Secretary General U Thant and U.S....
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eddie Germano. Nelson Rockefeller sits on a large stone labeled "Rocky" in the pose of Rodin's "The thinker." He holds a paper with the words, "Presidential nomination or RFK's New York Senate...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on February 22, 2007 with Harry McDonald, Sr., a retired engineer at Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Mississippi, who discusses Hurricane Katrina's effect on his neighborhood, his experience with FEMA, and...
