From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. The cartoon is divided into two panels. On the left side, Fidel Castro plays a guitar and sings, "Gren-ah-Da." On the right side, Castro's cigar has exploded. Puffs of smoke...
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 AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Cuban leader Fidel Castro rides in a Jeep with a man labeled "Soviets" as they drive along a road leading into a jungle. The road is labeled "Central American inroads." The Jeep...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Fidel Castro holds a large compass marked with "Soviet influence" at the north compass point. Behind him, small figures representing "Non-aligned nations" observe him.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A Soviet sailor sits with a Cuban woman at a table at the port. Behind them are two ships tied up, one labeled, "Soviet task force." The sailor is tickling the chin of the...
From the Map Collection. Early map of southeastern North America showing the areas known then as Florida and Apalche. Shows areas from Texas in the west to Virginia; also shows part of Cuba.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Ed Valtman. A giant-sized Fidel Castro bends at the waist, holding one hand behind his back. In his other hand, he holds a huge magnifying glass and looks through it to see Senator George...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. Fidel Castro sits at a desk and bangs his fist down on the desktop. He spits out his cigar as he reads the headline of the newspaper on his desk: "American expatriates now flock to...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on May 17, 1972 with Associate Justice Thomas Pickens Brady, of the Supreme Court of Mississippi in his chambers in Jackson, Mississippi. This is the second part of an interview conducted on March 4, 1972 with...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A large full moon shines low on the horizon just off the coast of Florida. Hotels are in the background; the beach and a palm tree are in the foreground. The moon's face [Nikita...
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 AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by William Sandeson. President Jimmy Carter sits in a chair before a mantled fireplace. Two men dressed in devil costumes with horns and pointed tails and labeled "Cuba" and "Russia" sit opposite...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Ranan Lurie. Richard Nixon and Uncle Sam are in the cockpit of a plane labeled "U.S. foreign policy." Nixon, pointing to Uncle Sam, says, "Now fly to Cuba!"
From the AAEC Editorial Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Leonid Brezhnev and Fidel Castro, holding shotguns, are reading a sign attached to the trunk of a palm tree. The tree trunk is labeled "Central America," and the sign reads "No...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. Fidel Castro is shown smoking a cigar labeled "Influence." An arm labeled "Brazil" uses scissors to cut the cigar in half at the same time that a thrown rock hits Castro on the back...
Oral history.; Angela Georgian was born in Greece in 1920 and emigrated to the United States in 1937. She and her mother and sister joined her father in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, where he had opened a small restaurant, Gus's Caf*. In 1947, Mrs....
Oral history.; Albert Lloyd Henderson was born in 1928 as William Eugene Ramsey but was adopted in infancy. When he was thirty-nine years old, he found his birth family, five sisters and two brothers. Mr. Henderson grew up in Monroe, Louisiana. ...
Oral history.; Tommie Dukes Sr. was born in 1906 in Richardson, Mississippi, a town that no longer exists. Mr. Dukes played baseball at Alcorn College and then played for semi-pro and Negro League teams. Among other teams, he played for the Memphis...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on August 17, 1977 with Mrs. Betty Carter at her home in Greenville, Mississippi. Carter was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. She attended Newcomb College where she met her husband, Hodding Carter. Together they...
Oral history.; Born on November 6, 1916, in Quito, Mississippi, Mrs. Martha Sisson Miller was the daughter of John William Sisson and Myrlea Johnson Sisson. She attended elementary and high school at Indianola City School. She attended Sunflower...
