Oral history.; An interview with Sister Jacqueline Howard conducted on May 30, 2007. Principal at Our Lady Academy in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, Howard describes the impact of Hurricane Katrina on the school and the community of Bay St. Louis.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on February 22, 2007 with Dorothy Burney, a retired Biloxi schoolteacher, who describes her experiences during and after Hurricane Katrina on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on November 12, 1981 and February 6, 1982 with Judge J. P. Coleman. Coleman was born on December 9, 1914 in Fentress, Mississippi. After attending the University of Mississippi, he was invited to work in...
Oral history.; An interview with Sara Hamilton conducted on June 19, 2007. A volunteer project manager, Ms. Hamilton relocated from Chicago to Biloxi after Hurricane Katrina to continue working on Gulf Coast relief efforts.
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...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on December 19, 2006 with Kurt Brautigam, Distinguished Lecturer in the School of Mass Communication and Journalism at Southern MIss. Mr. Brautigam discusses preparing for Hurricane Katrina and its effects on...
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...
Oral history.; Page discusses his family, his experiences as a black physician, the civil rights movement, his work in state politics, and the Mississippi Humanities Council.
An interview conducted on 06-08-1999 with Umoja Kwanguvu (born1925). Born William Jones, Umoja Kwanguvu actively protested and defied segregation while in the military, conducted protest activities against the prevailing Jim Crow attitudes and laws...
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...
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...
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, 1974 with Mayor Bennie G. Thompson at his office in Bolton, Mississippi. Thompson was born on January 28, 1948 in Bolton, Mississippi. He received a BA in political science from Tougaloo College...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on July 30, 1980 with Mr. Erle Johnston at his home in Forest, Mississippi. Johnston was born on October 10, 1917 in Garyville, Louisiana. In 1941, he moved Forest, Mississippi and bought the fledgling newspaper,...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on May 21, 1974 and January 26, 1976 with the Honorable Mildred Wells Norris. Norris was born in Ovett, Mississippi. She studied for one year at Mississippi State College for Women. Norris started working...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by David Simpson. A very overweight elephant labeled "Okla. GOP" [Oklahoma] sits at the end of a bed, one forefoot resting on its protruding belly. With the other forefoot, it uses a toothpick to...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Ed Valtman. A Jimmy Carter campaign staffer with folded papers under his arm, in the foreground of the cartoon, speaks to a group of puzzled-looking people at a "Carter for President" rally....
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Ed Valtman. Uncle Sam is at a tailor's shop for a fitting. The suit he is wearing is labeled, "SALT II." Half the suit is too short for him and half is too long. President Jimmy Carter stands...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eddie Germano. Eugene McCarthy stands in an empty Fenway Park holding a briefcase with "Eugene" in one hand and a campaign sign labeled "McCarthy for President speaks at Fenway Park tonight."...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eddie Germano. President Lyndon Johnson and Hubert Humphrey stand in the Oval Office (curved floor), with draperies, candelabra, and portrait on the wall. Humphrey is portrayed as a young boy,...
