Oral history.; Interview conducted on November 14, 1995 with Eldridge W. Steptoe Jr. (born 1936). Mr. Steptoe witnessed his father's involvement in the McComb movement of the early 1950s and in the establishing of a local chapter of the NAACP in...
From the University of Southern Mississippi Art Museum collection. Oil on canvas portrait of Clarence W. Woods mounted beside a plaque about the C. W. Woods Gallery, painting by Gittings.
Oral history.; Obie Clark was born October 31, 1932, near DeKalb, Mississippi. He earned a degree from Mississippi Industrial College and did additional college work at the University of Minnesota. For many years he taught school in Meridian,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Vic Runtz. President Richard Nixon rows a boat down a rapidly moving stream accompanied by an attractive woman whose billowing scarf is labeled "USA." Nixon's eyes are on the woman and not on...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Richard Wallmeyer. A small child wearing one piece pajamas and holding a teddy bear is standing on the surface of the earth looking toward a huge moon in a dark sky. No stars can be seen. An...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ho Chi Minh is on top of a large tank that is marked with the Communist hammer and sickle symbol. The tank is moving across a curved surface (part of the globe) that is labeled,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. Indonesian President Sukarno is driving a convertible automobile across a spherical, unmarked surface which may indicate the planet Earth. The hood ornament of the car is an atomic...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by John Riedell. The moon is in the foreground and Earth is in the background. Uncle Sam is standing on Earth (in the United States). He extends his bent, elongated left leg toward the surface of...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Riedell. Unfinished cartoon on the reverse side of cartoon number 833. An American soldier is climbing a steep, rocky surface labeled "Vietnam" without ropes. He carries his rifle and a...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Knudsen. A giant stone statue of a Chinese soldier stands upon the surface of the globe. The soldier stands at attention with a rifle slung over its shoulder. A grenade is in the belt,...
cartoon by John Knudsen; A satellite and three space craft orbit the earth. The space craft have been personified with grinning human faces. One of the craft bears an atomic symbol. A giant piece of paper labeled "Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapons...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by John Stampone. A giant shovel labeled "Benefits for all mankind" has been thrust partway into the soil of the surface of the moon. Against the backdrop of outer space, a spacecraft labeled...
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 conducted on July 30, 2007 with Cheryl Ann Blain, an engineer and oceanographer at Stennis Space Center. Dr. Blain describes her personal struggles with Hurricane Katrina as well as many of the environmental and...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on May 14, 2008 with Robert E. Bass, Jr. (born 1955). Mr. Bass earned degrees from Mississippi State University and the University of Mississippi Law School. He has served in many civic capacities, including...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on June 14, 2006 with Steve Grimm, CEO of what was then known as Crosby Memorial Hospital in Picayune, MS. Mr. Grimm discusses preparations for the hospital and the recovery effort after Hurricane Katrina.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on February 20, 2008 with Ellis Cuevas, who describes life in the Waveland, MS, area before and after Hurricane Katrina.
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...
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...