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 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...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser is sitting on one front leg of the Great Sphinx of Giza looking at a pyramid that is labeled, "Gamal Abdel Nasser...Leader of the Arab...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eddie Germano. Lyndon Johnson and a donkey sit next to each other in rocking chairs. Johnson's chair sports a U.S. seal. The donkey is bandaged and has an arm (upper leg) in a sling. Stars...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Knudsen. A very battered dove labeled "Christmas truce" wears a sling labeled "79 violations" and walks with a crutch. Its neck is twisted into a knot, and it is bandaged all over its...
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 June 16, 2008 with Rod Dickson-Rishel, pastor of the Mississippi City United Methodist Church. Reverend Dickson-Rishel discusses his experiences during and after Hurricane Katrina.
Oral history.; Interview conducted on May 14, 1996 with Frances Thornton Smith (born 1916). In 1971, the year that elementary schools were integrated, Smith volunteered to teach at Fair Elementary School, an African-American school in Pascagoula,...
Interviews conducted on 04-21-1977 and 05-12-1977 with Unita Blackwell (born 1933). Ms. Blackwell was a field worker for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in 1964 and also served that year as a delegate of the Mississippi Freedom...