Oral history.; An interview conducted on February 19, 2009 with George Bass, Chief of Long Beach Fire Department. He talks about losing his home and his other experiences in Long Beach during and after Hurricane Katrina.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on February 22, 2007 with Anne Petty, a retired schoolteacher, who describes hearing about Hurricane Katrina from her hospital bed in Washington and learning of its damage to her home in Pascagoula.
Oral history.; An interview conducted August 29, 2006 with Pam McVey, a nurse at Biloxi Regional Medical Center, who describes Hurricane Katrina's devastating effects on the hospital and its patients.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on October 22, 2005 with Wendy Frost. A registered nurse from Findlay, Ohio, Ms. Frost was a volunteer with the American Red Cross in South Mississippi following Hurricane Katrina.
Oral history.; An interview conducted February 21, 2007 with Thomas Brister, who describes his experiences during and after Hurricane Katrina on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
Oral history.; Interview conducted on November 16, 1977 with George Rogers (born 1927). Mr. Rogers, a Rhodes Scholar, was elected to the Mississippi House of Representatives, where he served for more than twenty years. He became well known for his...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on November 3, 1993 with Horace H. Harned Jr. (born 1920). He was a former Mississippi State legislator, a member of the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission, and an active segregationist during the years of...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on August 25, 1971 with Erskine Caldwell (1903-1987). Mr. Caldwell was a prominent American author whose works include Tobacco Road, (1932) and God's Little Acre (1933).
cartoon by Jim Ivey; At the "Fla. Development Comm.," "Smolko" tries to hand the "Press" selected papers, but the "Press" is angered by the chained and locked "Public Records."
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.; Three interviews conducted on August 8 and 10, 1976 and October 19, 1976 with Jesse Boyce Holleman (born 1924). He served in the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1947 until 1953. At that time, he became district attorney for...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on August 12, 1977 with Edward L. McDaniel (born 1934). Mr. McDaniel was instrumental in organizing the Ku Klux Klan in 1962 in Mississippi as the Grand Kleagle for the whole state. He started a state Klan in...
Oral history.; Three interviews conducted on December 12, 1975, January 19, 1976, and January 23, 1991 with Mr. C.J. Duckworth in his office in Jackson, Mississippi. Duckworth was born in Summerland, Mississippi, Smith County, on February 25,...
Oral history.; Dr. Forest Kent Wyatt was born on May 27, 1934, in Berea, Kentucky. He graduated from Delta State College (now Delta State University) with a double degree in mathematics and health, physical education, and recreation. He then began...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Ed Valtman. Gamal Abdel Nasser, dressed as a cowboy, rides a camel labeled "UAR." He swings a lasso as he tries to round up other camels, labeled "Algeria, Syria, Jordan, Sudan, Saedi [sic]...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Gene Basset. Lyndon Johnson holds the strings to three large balloons, one labeled "The economy." Holding his arm out, Johnson tries to prevent Harry Truman from piercing a balloon with the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by John Collins. A large fish representing the United States swims in the foreground. Fidel Castro, wearing swim trunks bearing the hammer and sickle symbol, is pinching the tail of the American...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by John Riedell. Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren is holding a burning draft card and tries to blow out the flame.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Karl Hubenthal. An elephant labeled "G.O.P. nat'l committee" carries an open umbrella and walks a tight rope suspended between two platforms labeled "San Diego" and "Miami." Shaking and...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. President Richard Nixon, with one of his shoes labeled, "Vietnam," tries to match the much larger footprints of President Dwight Eisenhower, three of which are labeled,...
