Oral history.; An interview with Pete Hansen conducted on August 11, 2006. Mr. Sloan is an operating room technician in Gulfport, Mississippi. He describes being at the hospital as Hurricane Katrina arrived.
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.; Two interviews conducted on October 28 and November 2, 1976 with Professor Charles G. Marx at the University of Southern Mississippi Campus in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Marx was born on November 23, 1932 in McComb, Mississippi. ...
cartoon by John Stampone; A giant polar bear sits on top of a guard house that is situated in front of a barbed wire fence. The bear is wearing boots and a hat, and it holds a bone labeled "Czechs" in its big paws. A rifle is slung across his...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. The cartoon is drawn in two panels. On the left side, Ronald Reagan is smiling at the angel sitting on his shoulder that is labeled "Economic upturn" and saying, "Run, Run,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A letter carrier stands outside a building with "U.S. Postal Service" on the window. He has a bag on his shoulder and he holds letters. He looks over his shoulder at the banner...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man labeled "Senate" is speaking in the Senate chamber, holding a paper that reads, "Debate on the anti-crime bill." Above him on a higher level in the room is a huge man...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Ed Valtman. Bathing suit clad women of all shapes and sizes sit, lie, walk, and play on the beach. A fat elephant (drawn as a man) smoking a cigar and wearing swim trunks and hat with a "GOP"...
cartoon by John Knudsen; A thick-set uniformed man labeled "North Korea" holds a smoking rifle against his right shoulder. With his left hand, he holds up a model-sized U.S. Navy airplane by the tail. A picture of the ship, the U.S.S. Pueblo, is...
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...
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.; Interview conducted on February 13, 1978 with Mr. M.W. Hamilton in Petal, Mississippi. Hamilton was born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi in 1909 and lived in the area until his death in 1990. He worked as a mechanic, electrician and...
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.; Discusses Clarence Magee's family, his responsibilities on the farm, and first memories of racism. Talks about the African American schools around Columbia, Mississippi. Describes his attempts to register to vote in Hattiesburg and...
Oral history.; Mr. Aaron Morgan was born December 18, 1909. He attended Oak Hill School through the seventh grade and then attended Auburn Consolidated Schools, driving a covered wagon with a pair of mules as a school ";bus."; He finished high...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on June 18, 1992 and March 9, 1993 with Mr. C.B. "Buddie" Newman at his home in Valley Park, Mississippi. Newman was born on May 8, 1921 in Valley Park, Mississippi. In 1942, he left his job with the Southern...
Oral history.; Interviews conducted on October 3, 1994 and October 10, 1994 with Mrs. Jane Menefee Schutt (born 1913). Mrs. Schutt was appointed to the Mississippi Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and served four years, the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Stampone. An elegant, petite Asian woman labeled "Mrs. Nguyen Thi Binh" walks beside a very large soldier and holds his hand. The soldier carries a rifle over his shoulder and is grinning....
