From the T.P. Scott Papers. A letter from W.S.F. Tatum to T.P. Scott dated 20 September 1910, concerning the selection of a site for Mississippi Normal College, favoring the Tatum property.
From the T.P. Scott Papers. A letter from W.S.F. Tatum to T.P. Scott dated 25 November 1910, concerning the selection of a site for Mississippi Normal College, favoring the Tatum property.
From the T.P. Scott Papers. A letter from W.S.F. Tatum to T.P. Scott dated 11 October 1910, concerning the selection of a site for Mississippi Normal College, favoring the Tatum property.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Edwin Meese wears track and field clothing and stands in front of a high jump that has been placed in front of a door labeled "Attorney general." The top bar of the high jump is...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. The Supreme Court bench is drawn like a large ballot box. A hasp and lock are attached to the front of the box. Ronald Reagan stands nearby holding a sign that reads, "I'd...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Supreme Court Associate Justice Abe Fortas is running on a long trail that goes back and forth across the cartoon. The trail is labeled, "Road toward Supreme Court Chief Justice...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. In the foreground is a large traffic signal with two lights, one labeled "Director's hiring and firing powers...Go" and the other "Director's hiring and firing powers...Stop."...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eddie Germano. Lyndon Johnson is dressed in a kerchief and apron and labeled "Ma Johnson." He is thinking, "Hmm...let's see," and looking at a cabinet with dishes labeled, "Personal aides,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Reg Manning. The giant leg of a man wearing cowboy boots and spurs steps into the cartoon from the left. On the boot is a map of Texas, the lone star, and "Gov. Connally." A small man,...
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 February 22, 2007 with Gwendolyn Beard, a fourth-generation Mississippian who desribes her experieneces during and after Hurricane Katrina in Moss Point, MS.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on May 14, 2008 with Robert E. Bass, Jr. (born 1955). Mr. Bass earned degrees from Mississippi State University and the University of Mississippi Law School. He has served in many civic capacities, including...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on June 19, 2006 with artist Lori K. Gordon. Ms. Gordon discusses her community, Clermont Harbor, Mississippi, before Hurricane Katrina, as well as her experiences afterward. Pieces from Ms. Gordon's work, The...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on May 19, 2008 with David Baria, a resident of Bay St. Louis during Hurricane Katrina. He describes his experience before, during, and after the storm.
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 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.; An interview conducted on January 31, 1977 with Jimmy Carter Fairley (born 1921). A native of Greene County, Mississippi, Mr. Fairley was active in the civil rights movement at the local, state, and national levels.
Oral history.; Interview conducted on February 26, 1974 with Mr. Brodie Crump at his home in Greenville, Mississippi. Crump was born in 1898 in Greenville, Mississippi. After attending Mississippi A&M College, now Mississippi State University,...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on June 9, 1977 with the Honorable Herman B. DeCell in his office in Yazoo City, Mississippi. DeCell enrolled at the University of Mississippi but with the start of World War II, he was called to service. After...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 26, 1974 with Rabbi Julian B. Feibelman in his office at the Temple Sinai in New Orleans, Louisiana. Feibelman was born on March 23, 1897 in Jackson, Mississippi. He remained in Jackson for the first...
