From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Knudsen. Graves are marked with crosses in a graveyard. One cross is topped with a U.S. soldier's helmet, and the soldier's identification tag is nailed to it. The cross has the words,...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection."White paper" on Mississippi agriculture, manufacturing, income, taxation, and their relation to the economic status of Black Mississippians.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Two men in a biplane fly across a graph leaving a trend line labeled "'82 stock market." Below the plane is a second trend line that reads "'29 crash." The pilot says to the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Uncle Sam is driving a car labeled "U.S." at high speed down the unprotected road that is descending around a cliff. He passes a sign with "Caution" and a sharply curving arrow....
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by John Riedell. Ronald Reagan is kneeling beside a stream of water, where he is panning for gold. He smiles to see a large nugget labeled "California tax increase" in his pan. In the background,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Reg Manning. Uncle Sam is sitting up in a hospital bed in a semi-private room. A thermometer labeled "Political fever" is in his mouth, and an icepack labeled "Energy headaches" is on his head....
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Reg Manning. In the upper frame of the cartoon, Uncle Sam gestures toward a man labeled "Little Rhodesia," who is standing near a sign labeled "Off limits, U.N. sanctions." Uncle Sam says, "I...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; This report documents the economic conditions in the South in the 1960s, and it addresses ways of bringing the region up to the standard of the northern half of the country. The document...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Campaign brochure for Paul B. Johnson's 1963 Mississippi gubernatorial campaign; mostly concentrates on economic development plans.
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Confidential paper dealing with the conclusions and implications of the Freedom Budget, which advocated redistribution of wealth through tax policy; this response examines the fitness of the...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Report for or by the Atlanta office of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). The report includes information about the economic impact of negative public perceptions of the state...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection. Memo proposing a study institute for SNCC workers to be held in Waveland, Mississippi, after a staff retreat. The institute was designed to heighten awareness of political, social, and economic...
Transcribed copy of a journal written by Joseph Ellin in which he discusses government and political issues in relation to racial discrimination, education, economic conditions, and other aspects of society and culture in Mississippi.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ronald Reagan stands in an open elevator, the floor of which is labeled, "High interest rates." The elevator car is not at floor level, but halfway up to the next floor. Reagan...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Jimmy Carter is in the boxing ring facing an enormous boxer who has gloves labeled, "Energy" and "Economy." Carter's coach says, "Watch out for that mean left...and that...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Charlie Daniel. A cut-out of Richard Nixon's face appears in a wall, and a man looking through it says, " Hmmm...this must be one of those tax loopholes I've been hearing about."
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...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Lyndon Johnson, dressed as the captain of a ship, stands at the helm of the "U.S.S. Economy." He is steering the ship between the tips of two icebergs labeled "Recession" and...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A cow with an udder labeled "La. [Louisiana] milk prices" jumps over the moon. The earth is seen in the background, along with other planets and stars. The cartoon caption...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ronald Reagan is in a room labeled "Reagan lab" and he is wearing a white lab coat. He is standing under a sign that reads, "Pledges to cut taxes, hike defense spending and...
