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...
cartoon by Jack Jurden; A music conductor sits in front of the cavernous mouth of a tuba while holding sheet music entitled "Auto makers waltz" A man playing the tuba is sitting on a stool, and his face is turned toward a music stand that holds...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Jimmy Carter, dressed in a tuxedo, is dancing with an empty ball gown labeled, "After Brezhnev, who?" A briefcase labeled, "Salt II treaty" is on the floor leaning against a...
Oral history.; Mrs. Edith Ruff Thomas was born on February 12, 1920. She grew up on a farm that became well-established, providing products throughout Tupelo. In 1936, she lived through the Tupelo tornado, and in 1937 she was graduated from Tupelo...