Transcribed copy of a report by the General Legislative Committee of Mississippi based on findings from an investigation of the occupation of the University of Mississippi in 1962 by the United States Department of Justice. Action was taken in...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Santa Claus drives his sleigh and reindeer across the sky with a huge moon in the background. Below is the Apollo 8 rocket hooked by cables to a launch tower. A sign reads,...
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...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A traffic officer is directing traffic. A huge traffic light has words on the red ball: "Stop...Carnival parades are on!" A lamp post near the policeman has a sign that reads,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. A small man and woman stand in front of a castle labeled "Czechoslovakia" waving a sign labeled "Soviets, go home!" at a giant bear. The bear growls menacingly. Runtz's signature cat...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. On a road a man drives a car with "More and more cars" on the grill. He is being followed closely by a second car with "Record fatalities" on the grill, driven by the Grim Reaper (a...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man with a "domed stadium" for a head plays a guitar and sings, "Downtown...Where all the lights are bright...Downtown, Loyola and Poydras...Downtown...Forget all your...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man labeled "Industrial waste dumpers" is playing a board game called "The pollution game, new legislative version." The start of the game is at bottom left of the playing...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Two men in an office are singing, one of them while playing a guitar. The man with the guitar is at a desk with a name plate labeled, "Orleans Levee Board." Papers on the desk...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Jimmy Carter stands in the snow in front of an enormous St. Bernard dog that is labeled, "Inflation." Around the dog's neck hangs a huge barrel labeled, "Economic stimulus...$25...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A police officer kneels next to a junked car that is set up on blocks. The car has a hole in the windwhield, the hood is up, and a "Police notice" is attached to the front...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Richard Locher. In the foreground of the cartoon are a line of people, chained together, walking down a hill to the shoreline. Between two of the people, a sign labeled "Taxpayers" hangs from...
cartoon by Jim Ivey; The "Tallahassee City Commission" tells a young boy, "Hang Your Head on a Hickory Limb, But Don't Go Near the Water." The boy sweats as he looks at a pool representing "Tallahassee City Pools."
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. An elephant dressed in a suit and wearing a "Nixon & Agnew" button sees the ghost of Tom Dewey sitting at the top of a stairway and holding a paper that says, "Remember '48." On...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. The cartoon is divided into two panels. On the left side, Jimmy Carter has been kicked down a flight of stairs that form a downward trend line on a large graph that is labeled,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man with an elephant head is in a hospital bed hooked to an intravenous line. On the elephant's head is a bandage labeled "Edwards landslide," and the chart at the foot of the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Jon Kennedy. J. William Fulbright is hammering together the framing of a wooden doghouse in a yard near a high stone wall. A hand saw, bucket of nails, and cut wood pieces are on the ground...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. A man labeled "State of union" struggles to ice skate while carrying a cannon labeled "Viet as ever" and a box labeled "and butter too." The ice is labeled "Economy" and has cracks....
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletche. Louisiana governor Edwin Edwards is pulling on the reins of a donkey that is labeled "Uncommitted slate." The donkey's head is over a fence which has a sign that reads, "Custer's...
