Oral history.; Three interviews conducted on April 28, 30 and May 7, 1981 with Mr. Claude Ramsay at his office in Jackson, Mississippi. Ramsay was born in 1916 in Ocean Springs, Mississippi. He served briefly in the Civilian Conservation Corps...
Oral history.; An interview with Linda Hayles conducted on August 1, 2006. A former resident of New Orleans, Louisiana, Ms. Hayles discusses her experience evacuating before Hurricane Katrina as well as in its aftermath.
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on February 7 and 21, 1992 with Mr. Thomas Knight Sr. at the University of Southern Mississippi. Knight was born on July 9, 1920 near Hattiesburg, Mississippi. In 1941, he began working at the Reliance...
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 21, 1972 with the Honorable Russell C. Davis in his office in Jackson, Mississippi. He was born in Rockville, Maryland. After completing two years at the University of Maryland, Davis took employment...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ronald Reagan and a man with an elephant head walk alongside a tall wooden fence, looking up fearfully at a huge jack-o-lantern labeled "Unemployment." On the other side of the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. The cartoon is drawn in two panels. On the left side, Ronald Reagan is smiling at the angel sitting on his shoulder that is labeled "Economic upturn" and saying, "Run, Run,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A line of people stand outside a building near a sign that reads "Unemployment office." From three windows on the second floor of the building, two men and a bull can be seen....
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A woman dressed as Little Red Riding Hood wears a cape labeled, "La. unemployment fund." She has a small open suitcase that has a coin with a dollar sign on it. She is sitting...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Ed Valtman. Richard Nixon holds his hat in his right hand, and he stands near a large circle on the ground in front of him. There are a number of hats already in the circle, and Nixon appears...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. On a desk labeled with a sign that reads, "Hard core unemployment" are two In boxes, each with a tall pile of paper. The first box is labeled "Today's problems," and the papers...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Collins. The numbers 1-9-7-5 are linked to each other and placed underground to form a convoluted tunnel. Lions labeled "Inflation" and "Unemployment" guard the entrance and exit. Five men...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Vic Runtz. President Richard Nixon walks down a corridor past a partially open doorway while looking at a list on which are the names of cabinet officers [George P.] Shultz, [Richard V.] Allen,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Jon Kennedy. Labor leader George Meany is smoking a cigar that has exploded in his face. The smoke from the exploding cigar is labeled "Limited spending on unemployment." The end of the...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on February 19, 2009 with Dwight Gordon. A firefighter in Pass Christian, Mississippi, Mr. Gordon discusses his experiences during and after Hurricane Katrina.
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...
Oral history.; Mr. Augustus (Gus) Ashby Sr. was born in 1924, in Washington, D.C. and moved to Tupelo where he became active in the local church. After high school, he attended college in Holly Springs and Okolona, Mississippi. He was a member of...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on November 11, 1995 with Larry Rubin (born 1942). In 1961, he helped to register voters in the South for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. In late 1963 and in 1964, Mr. Rubin worked as a civil rights...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Dave Treen, holding a gas can, is walking along a road in a deserted area. He is walking away from his car, labeled "State jobless benefits," which is parked on the side of the...
