Oral history.; Kathleen (Kat) Bergeron was born on April 23, 1950. She attended Gulfport East High School and the W. Page Pitt School of Journalism at Marshal University in Huntington, West Virginia. From 1995 to 1996, Ms. Bergeron attended...
Photograph of the Project Marine Discovery Sea Camp. Biologist Leslie Bruce of the Gulf Coast Research Laboratory examines beachcombing finds with Billy Brooks, Jay Spiers, and Chris Jones during Project Marine Discovery Sea Camp, which was...
Photograph of Project Marine Discovery Sea Camp, which was co-sponsored by the Gulf Coast Research Laboratory and the Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Riedell. Uncle Sam is sitting in a small boat holding a fishing pole in his lap. A swordfish labeled "U.S. interests" is tied to the side of the boat, and the swordfish has a large hole in...
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.; Tommie Dukes Sr. was born in 1906 in Richardson, Mississippi, a town that no longer exists. Mr. Dukes played baseball at Alcorn College and then played for semi-pro and Negro League teams. Among other teams, he played for the Memphis...
From the AAEC Editorial Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A large bear with the hammer and sickle symbol on its chest growls angrily as, with one front leg, it swats at and strikes a commercial airliner [KAL 007]. The airplane is falling out...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on June 14, 2006 with Steve Grimm, CEO of what was then known as Crosby Memorial Hospital in Picayune, MS. Mr. Grimm discusses preparations for the hospital and the recovery effort after Hurricane Katrina.
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...
Oral history.; Mr. Donald Evans grew up on the Mississippi Gulf Coast and attended Arkansas A and M College on a football scholarship. In the late 1960s, he was drafted by the Minnesota Vikings. In 1968, Mr. Evans married Hiawatha Williams and...
Oral history.; Mr. James Madison Johnson was born on March 17, 1955, in Laurel, Mississippi. During his childhood, he lived in George County, Lucedale, Leaf, and McLain, Mississippi. Mr. Johnson attended college at Mississippi Valley State,...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on August 15, 1978 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 August 17, 1977 with Mrs. Betty Carter at her home in Greenville, Mississippi. Carter was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. She attended Newcomb College where she met her husband, Hodding Carter. Together they...
Oral history.; Mrs. Frances Ryals Terry was born July 30, 1923, in Greenville, Mississippi. She was a child during the Depression and during the flood of 1927. Mrs. Terry grew up near Hollandale, Mississippi. She graduated from Delta State...
Oral history.; Percy Brooks was born on November 15, 1911 to a family of farmers. His grandfather had been freed from slavery during the Civil War, and afterwards sharecropped and rented land to save money to buy eighty acres in 1909. Mr. Brooks...
From the Taro Yashima Papers. Sketch of sea creatures in ink from SEASHORE STORY by Taro Yashima (New York: Viking, 1967). SEASHORE STORY is a 1968 Caldecott Honor Book.
From the Taro Yashima Papers. Sketch of sea shells in graphite and watercolor from SEASHORE STORY by Taro Yashima (New York: Viking, 1967). SEASHORE STORY is a 1968 Caldecott Honor Book.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. This cartoon is in two panels. On the left side, two Argentinian military leaders sit at a desk behind a nameplate: "Junta." On the wall behind them is a graph showing a...
