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 AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Richard Wallmeyer. Two uniformed cleaning women are working in a large room in Paris. The Eiffel Tower is seen through the window, and snow is falling outside. One woman is vacuuming the...
From the University of Southern Mississippi Art Museum collection. Color print of the founding fathers of America signing the Constitution, by an unknown artist.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man is running away from ghosts labeled, "Vietnam...Inflation...Crime" and past a sign labeled, "The fabulous '70's." The sign shape includes a direction that is the same as...
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 October 6, 2006 with Fred Dunaway and Caroline Dunaway. Residents of Back Bay, Biloxi, Mr. & Mrs. Dunaway discuss their experiences during and after Hurricane Katrina.
Oral history.; An interview with Linda Hayles conducted on August 1, 2006. A former resident of New Orleans, Louisiana, Ms. Hayles discusses her experience evacuating before Hurricane Katrina as well as in its aftermath.
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.; Interview conducted on March 24, 1972 with Dr. William Penn Davis at his home in Jackson, Mississippi. Davis was born in Union County, Mississippi on August 5, 1903. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Mississippi College in...
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 May 11, 1982 with Professor N.R. Burger at his residence in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Burger was born on April 7, 1909 in Brookhaven, Mississippi. In 1932, he completed his undergraduate degree from Alcorn...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on September 18, 1980 with Phillip West (born 1946). He has served as president of the NAACP of Adams County and as second vice-president for the state.
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 26, 1977 with William Joel Blass (born 1917). As a lawyer in 1952, he successfully prosecuted the Boyce Holleman case by proving that voter fraud had kept Holleman from winning. Beginning in 1953, he...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ronald Reagan stands in the middle of a labyrinth, part of which is in the shape of the words, "U.S. economy." He holds up a sign that reads, "An upturn is just around the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Vic Runtz. On the globe, people are drawn as groups in the shape of the continents. Some people are shown having fallen off the planet. A banner reads "Scientists claim Earth's population to...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Louisiana Governor Dave Treen is dressed as a Boy Scout troop leader. He is walking along a path carrying a compass, and he is looking intently at the compass. The path he is...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Two men and a woman stand near a flag pole on which hangs a flag at half mast. The flag has a large white circle with a hammer and sickle symbol. The hammer portion, in the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Richard Wallmeyer. Four birds with human heads are sitting on a telephone pole or on the wires attached to the pole. The birds portray President Lyndon Johnson, French prime minister Charles de...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Louisiana state Senator Nat Kiefer, dressed as a runner, pauses between two traffic signs. One reads, "Yield" and the other, "Resume speed." Nearby is a sign in the shape of a...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Louisiana gubernatorial candidate Dave Treen, wearing an elephant button, looks at a shape that represents people fighting. It is labeled with names:...
