Oral history.; An interview conducted on November 20, 1998 with Jason York, marketing manager for Silver Star Resort and Casino. Born in Philadelphia, Mississippi, York describes his experience of Choctaw culture in the context of American society.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on October 21, 1998 with Kenneth York (born 1948) in Neshoba County, Mississippi. York is an educator and advocate for Choctaw cultural heritage.
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...
From the Campbell (Will D.) Papers; Typewritten letter and proposal written by Hugh and Anne Wire to Leslie Dunbar of the Southern Regional Council, dated July 11, 1964." A Presbyterian minister, Hugh Wire writes for advice in relocating to a city...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Jon Kennedy. Lyndon Johnson, dressed in working ranch attire, walks away from the barbed wire fence he has just climbed over. He holds both hands behind his back, covering his posterier, and...
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 June 8, 1976, with Will D. Campbell. Mr. Campbell, born in Amite County, Mississippi, was ordained as a pastor at the age of 17. He first became aware of race relations during time spent in the military, when...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A commentator is watching a foot race from the reporter’s box. Racers are indicated only by feet and a cloud of dust. The commentator yells into the microphone, “It's down...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man labeled “LA. lottery” is wearing old-fashioned clothing and a bowler hat, and he has a handle-bar moustache. He is standing beside a raffle/lottery wire cylinder...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Richard Wallmeyer. Four birds with human heads are sitting on a telephone pole or on the wires attached to the pole. The birds portray President Lyndon Johnson, French prime minister Charles de...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Ed Valtman. Lon Nol is shown walking on a high wire holding an umbrella labeled, "Cambodian neutrality." Cambodia's deposed Prince Norodom Sihanouk, holding a balance pole, has fallen from the...
cartoon by Richard Wallmeyer; A statue of a seated, meditating Buddha labeled "Cambodia" sits upon a stone slab. Two lengths of barbed wire are suspended in front of the statue. One of the barbs on the wire is shaped like a hammer and sickle.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Knudsen. A man labeled "Czech people" stands in Central Europe in an area fenced by tall barbed wire. A flag with hammer and sickle is mounted on top of the fence. The horizon line is the...
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 conducted on September 4, 2008 with John Hairston, Chief Executive Officer of Hancock Bank, Gulfport, Mississippi. Mr. Hairston discusses his family history, experience during Hurrican Katrina, and the economic impact...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on December 19, 2006 with Kurt Brautigam, Distinguished Lecturer in the School of Mass Communication and Journalism at Southern MIss. Mr. Brautigam discusses preparing for Hurricane Katrina and its effects on...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on September 2, 1976 with the Honorable Hervey O. Hicks at his home in Benton, Mississippi. Hicks was born on a farm near Benton, Mississippi, in Yazoo County in 1900. In 1931, he ran a successful campaign for...
An interview conducted on 06-08-1999 with Umoja Kwanguvu (born1925). Born William Jones, Umoja Kwanguvu actively protested and defied segregation while in the military, conducted protest activities against the prevailing Jim Crow attitudes and laws...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on August 23 and October 30, 1974 with Mr. Joe Reyer at his home in Poplarville, Mississippi. Reyer was born in 1893 in Pearl River County, Mississippi. He attended an agricultural high school, now Pearl...
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...
