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.; An interview conducted on October 27, 2006 with Hunter Dunaway in which he discusses his experiences during and after Hurricane Katrina.
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on June 12, 2007 and February 20, 2008 with Robert Gavagnie. A descendent of some of the first settlers on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, Mr. Gavagnie discusses his experiences as Chief of the Bay St. Louis...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on December 29, 2006 with Letitia Willams, Director of the Hancock County Chamber of Commerce, who describes escaping to Jackson, Mississippi, before Hurricane Katrina's landfall and working with state and...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on September 23, 2009 with Robert Weaver, the Sand Beach Director and Roads Manager for Harrison County, who describes the 2005 hurricane season's destruction across the American South.
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.
A handwritten list of Freedom Summer volunteers and staff in Hattiesburg written by Joe Ellin. The list gives the volunteers' religion, race, approximate age, and their work site. There are tally marks for the statistics on the lower right corner....
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 26, 1974 with Rabbi Julian B. Feibelman in his office at the Temple Sinai in New Orleans, Louisiana. Feibelman was born on March 23, 1897 in Jackson, Mississippi. He remained in Jackson for the first...
Oral history.; Four interviews conducted on June 11, September 26, October 10, and November 21, 1985 with Ms. Ruby Magee in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Magee was born on August 12, 1940 in Tylertown, Mississippi. In 1962, she received a BA in...
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.; 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,...
cartoon by Eddie Germano; The communist symbol of the sickle and the hammer hovers in "The Ominous Cloud." The word "congo" hovers over the jungle village.
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...
cartoon by John Knudsen; An atomic symbol appears amidst the sparks of the burning fuse of an earth-shaped bomb. The head of a candle snuffer, shaped like a tied scroll of paper, hovers above the fuse. The scroll is labeled "Nuclear...
cartoon by John Riedell; The communist symbol of a sickle and hammer stand alone. The sickle stands with its handle upright, and the hammer handle crossing its blade. The two are called "another cross."
cartoon by John Stampone; A man labeled "Congressional doves" holds a picket sign that reads,"Eliminate the draft" His tie bears a peace symbol. Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird stands face to face with the man, gestures over his shoulder and...
cartoon by John Stampone; Four men wearing cowboy attire and white hats stand at a bar. The frame of the mirror behind the bar is labeled "NATO Unity Bar" French President Charles DeGaulle is wearing cowboy attire and a black hat, and is walking...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on August 15, 1978 with Mr. Thomas Y. Minniece. Minniece was born in Meridian, Mississippi on October 9, 1912. He received a BA degree from the University of Texas in 1933 and a law degree from the University of...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on August 17, 1977 with Mrs. Betty Carter at her home in Greenville, Mississippi. Carter was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. She attended Newcomb College where she met her husband, Hodding Carter. Together they...
