Oral history.; Interview conducted on October 28, 1993 with Judge Michael L. Carr (born 1920). He moved to Mississippi when he received an appointment to serve as law clerk to Edwin R. Holmes, U.S. circuit judge for the Fifth Circuit Court of...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man in a baseball uniform is up to bat, and he is sweating nervously. The man is labeled "Legislature" and holds a bat labeled "Individual batting average." Home plate is in...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A television shows a baseball umpire holding a paper that reads, "Baseball strike ends." It also shows a football player, labeled "Football season," rushing across the screen,...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 19, 1975 with Otho Monroe (born 1912). Mr. Monroe was superintendent of the Senatobia School District from 1949 until 1968, when he resigned in protest of school desegregation.
Oral history.; Mr. David M. "Boo" Ferriss was born December 5, 1921, in Shaw, Mississippi. Mr. Ferriss graduated from Mississippi State University and served in the Army Air Corps in World War II. Spending forty-four years as a player and coach in...
Oral history.; Four interviews conducted on October 1, 2, and 23 of 1975, and July 1, 1976 with Mr. Hugh Clegg at his home in Anguilla, Mississippi. Clegg was born on July 17, 1898 in Mathiston, Mississippi. Clegg graduated from Millsaps...
Transcribed copy of a list of suggestions for teaching methods for teachers in the Mississippi Freedom Project. Suggestions include an emphasis on teaching the students to clearly express their ideas as opposed to an emphasis on grammar and...
Photograph of baseball players Ray Guy (Southern Mississippi), left, and Al Ryan (University of South Alabama), right, and an umpire calling the runner safe. Also found in the 1972 Southerner yearbook on p. 173.
Photograph of football player Tony Smith (No. 18) celebrating upon making a touchdown against the University of Alabama. An umpire also has both arms up in the air.
Photograph of head football coach Bobby Collins discussing a call with an umpire. Both men are pointing onto the field, and the umpire holds a rulebook in one hand.
Oral history.; Mr. Sank Powe was born in the Delta in Elizabeth, Mississippi, on April 20, 1942. Growing up, Mr. Powe often worked in the cotton fields for meager wages. Mr. Powe attended Mound Bayou High School, Jackson State University and Delta...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on September 18, 1980 with Phillip West (born 1946). He has served as president of the NAACP of Adams County and as second vice-president for the state.
