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 June 7, 1999 with Terri Shaw (born 1940). Ms. Shaw graduated from Antioch College in Yellow springs, Ohio, in 1963, then went to work for the Buffalo (NY) Courier-Express before spending the summer in...
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.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Riedell. A man labeled "Donald L. Barnett" wears a mortar board on his head and holds a rifle. The end of the rifle is damaged, and it smokes with the words, "Withholding student marks."...
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 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...
Oral history.; Mr. George A. Stevens was born in 1910 in Forrest County, Mississippi. He attended Hattiesburg public schools but graduated from high school in Anthony, New Mexico. Mr. Stevens returned to attend The University of Southern...
Oral history.; Judge John H. Whitfield was born in Gulfport, Mississippi, on July 4, 1962. Prior to integration of the schools, Judge Whitfield attended Nichols Perkins Elementary School in Biloxi until 1973. When Mississippi public schools in...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man labeled, "Legislature" is holding a book titled, "No-fat budget" under his arm and a pen in his hand. He is looking at a calendar on the wall and holding up some of its...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Louisiana governor John McKeithen is dressed in a tuxedo with a top hat that is labeled, "2nd consecutive term inaugural." Beside his arm is a sign labeled, "First for a La....
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Uncle Sam is holding a piece of paper that reads, "Recent U.S. space successes." He is looking at the moon, which has circles around it to resemble a target. The cartoon caption...
cartoon by Arthur Henrikson; A hot air balloon labeled "auto repair costs" rises in the sky. The basket of the balloon is labeled "insurance rates," and it holds a worried person in it. Congress prepares to shoot down the balloon with an arrow...
A collection of ten 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.; 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 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.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on June 25, 2007 with Lieutenant General John C. ""Clark"" Griffith. General Griffith describes his experiences during and after Hurricane Katrina, as well as his involvement in commissions planning for the...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on June 22, 2007 with Mark Jones. A relief worker with Urban Life Ministries, Mr. Jones describes his experiences distributing meals and supplies following Hurricane Katrina.
Oral history.; Interview conducted on July 28, 1981 with Reverend Clinton Collier at the Methodist Church in Morton, Mississippi. Collier was born on August 24, 1909 in rural Neshoba County. After completing the eighth grade, which was as high as...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on January 21, 2006 with Natalie C. Brown. Miss Brown lived near the Tulane campus during Hurricane Katrina and describes her evacuation and return to the city.
