A collection of six 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.; Mrs. Lorita Nelson Jones was born on July 19, 1909, in Biloxi, Mississippi. Her mother's family were originally from New Orleans, Louisiana, of Creole heritage; her grandmother, Olivia Lewis, spoke only in French. Her father Lamar...
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 January 4, 2006 with Eddie Williams, a member of the North Carolina Baptist Men, who describes his efforts with this volunteer organization on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Judge David Gertler sits at his desk doing paperwork, with a desk nameplate that reads, "The judiciary." His left shoe, labeled "Candidate for mayor," has been kicked off his...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. In the foreground of the cartoon is a donkey. On the donkey's neck is a huge horse shoe or a yoke with "Cast iron" on it. The horse shoe or yoke is so heavy it has forced the...
cartoon by Ed Valtman; A shoe salesman labeled "Congress" sits on a stool. Two shoeboxes labeled "Congressional" and "Appropriations" sit on the floor next to the stool. The salesman is attending a woman labeled "Great Society," who is wearing a...
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 August 29, 2006 with Pam McVey, a nurse at Biloxi Regional Medical Center, who describes Hurricane Katrina's devastating effects on the hospital and its patients.
Oral history.; Albert Lloyd Henderson was born in 1928 as William Eugene Ramsey but was adopted in infancy. When he was thirty-nine years old, he found his birth family, five sisters and two brothers. Mr. Henderson grew up in Monroe, Louisiana. ...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on May 1, 1972 with Dr. Aaron Henry in his drugstore in Clarksdale, Mississippi. Henry was born on July 2, 1922 in Clarksdale, Mississippi. After serving in World War II, he went to Xavier College (now Xavier...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on June 5, 1999 with Sheila Michaels (born 1939). She attended the College of William and Mary, but was suspended for her political and racial opinions while on the school's newspaper board. In 1961, she joined...
Oral history.; Born on October 20, 1939, in Sandy Ridge, Lowndes County, Alabama, Mr. Loyce Searight moved with his family to Biloxi, Mississippi, in March of 1947. He graduated from M.F. Nichols High School and went on to earn several other...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on August 23 and October 30, 1974 with Mr. Joe Reyer at his home in Poplarville, Mississippi. Reyer was born in 1893 in Pearl River County, Mississippi. He attended an agricultural high school, now Pearl...
From the AAEC Editorial Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A woman [Rita Jenrette?] is holding a man's shoe stuffed with cash (labeled "$25,000") and showing it to a man labeled "Jenrette." John W. Jenrette says to her, "The tooth fairy brought...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. An overweight woman stands on a scale. Her dress is covered in dollar signs and is labeled, "Growing U.S. dollar crisis." She holds a shoe box labeled, "Sweet spending bon-bons"...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. The background of the cartoon is the grid of a chart with an upward trend line that is labeled, "Cost of living index." At the lower end of the line is a man's leg with trousers...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Alexsey Kosygin is flying a plane shaped like a man's shoe and labeled, "Flying trip to N.Y.?" Below him is the United Nations building, labeled, "U.N. Middle East 'Peace'...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eddie Germano. The facade of a building with an open window is seen. The armored leg of a soldier (reminiscent of the Roman Empire), with a shoe labeled "Vietnam costs" kicks a man out the...
