Oral history.; An interview conducted on August 2, 2007 and October 9, 2007 with Edmond Boudreaux, Jr., a longtime Mississippi Gulf Coast resident and active local historian of the region. Mr. Boudreaux discusses the impact of Hurricane Katrina on...
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...
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 July 19, 1978 with Mr. W.S. Griffin at his home in Jackson, Mississippi. Griffin was born on October 15, 1913 near Mantee, Mississippi, in Webster County. In 1936, he accepted a position as a teacher and coach...
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.; Interview conducted on November 4, 1993 with Joseph E. Wroten (born 1925). Mr. Wroten became famous as one of only two Mississippi House Representatives who voted in favor of allowing blacks to enroll at the University of Mississippi.
Oral history.; Mr. Alton G. Bankston was born outside of Laurel, Mississippi on June 5, 1941. Mr. Bankston majored in political science and history at Jones County Junior College and attended the University of Southern Mississippi. In 1963 he...
From the Beauregard (Pierre Gustave Toutant) Papers. Written by and at the command of General Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard from Charleston, South Carolina, headquarters of the Department of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida on 1 December...
cartoon by Ed Valtman; Two men, one Russian and one Chinese, are fighting over a ship's wheel labeled "world communism." One of the men is wearing the communist hammer and sickle on his chest.
cartoon by Eddie Germano; A ship's captain is shown holding a paper labeled "The Crew" and a slingshot labeled "USS Pueblo." He is looking up at a huge gun barrel pointed toward him labeled with a soviet hammer and sickle.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Vic Runtz. President Richard Nixon wears rain gear and a serious expression as he stands at the helm of a ship during a storm. The ship's wheel is labeled "Nixon course." Wind and rain lash him...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. In the background of the cartoon is a large ship labeled "Soviet trawlers." A sailor is on the deck and appears surprised. The ship's anchor chain extends from the front of the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Clyde Wells. A battleship, USS Ford, is moving through a lock in the Panama Canal. Some of the gun's ships point forward, and others point to left and right. From right to left across the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Knudsen. A large ship labeled "Russian Navy" is steaming through the Mediterranean Sea. The gun mounted at the ship's prow has been fired toward some small ships in the distance. A...
