From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Jimmy Carter walks a young boy out to a wood shed. The boy is labeled “Public.” Carter is thinking "1980" and carries a wooden paddle labeled "New energy plan." The boy’s...
From the Margret and Hans Augusto Rey Papers.; Correspondence in French between H.A. Rey and Monsieur Schiffrin; 2 letters from Schiffrin, at Librairie Gallimard, and 1 letter from Rey.
Typewritten letter from Matthew Zwerling to his parents, Israel and Florence Zwerling, dated August 3, 1964. Discusses an incident in which Zwerling was arrested for speeding, but not jailed. He also asks his parents for money for the project and...
Carbon copy of a five-page typed Report on the Library written on August 26, 1964 by Nancy Bowles Ellin. The report lists book loan procedures and policies. The main library in the project's headquarters and branches at Mt. Zion Baptist Church, the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Hy Rosen. Richard Nixon reclines on a sofa with a book titled The Final Days, written by Woodward and Bernstein, lying open face down on his body. Behind the sofa, a series of four pictures...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A woman rummages through her purse and is placing the contents on a desk. Her purse is labeled, "The case for ERA." A man labeled "La. Senate" watches her. She says, "I just...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Two men are on a girder that is suspended from above by a wire and large hook. The girder is labeled, "State building programs" and is not flat but tilted up on one end. The man...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. At the top of the cartoon is a large "Oregon" and at the bottom "California." The N of Oregon extends down to end in the I of California to form the Oregon Trail, as indicated...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on October 21, 1996 with Mr. Charles Cobb (born 1943) in Washington, D.C. In the summer of 1962, he was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) field secretary in Ruleville, Mississippi, where he and...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on May 30, 2007 with Glen East, Superintendent of Gulfport, Mississippi Schools. Mr. East discusses the impact of Hurricane Katrina on Gulfport Schools.
Oral history.; Interview conducted on July 28, 1981 with Reverend Clinton Collier at the Methodist Church in Morton, Mississippi. Collier was born on August 24, 1910 [i.e. 1909] in rural Neshoba County. After completing the eighth grade, which...
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...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on August 25, 1971 with Erskine Caldwell (1903-1987). Mr. Caldwell was a prominent American author whose works include Tobacco Road, (1932) and God's Little Acre (1933).
Oral history.; Born on October 20, 1939, in Sandy Ridge, Lowndes County, Alabama, Mr. Loyce Searight moved with his family to Biloxi, Mississippi, in March of 1947. He graduated from M.F. Nichols High School and went on to earn several other...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on October 25, 1993 with Mrs. Raylawni Branch. Branch was born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, in 1941. After graduating from high school, she married and had three children. In 1965, Branch attended USM for one...
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. By George P. Webster ; from the story by Washington Irving. Published in New York by McLoughlin Bros., Inc., circa 1890s. Title and imprint from cover ; statement of responsibility from caption...
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Published in New York by McLoughlin Bros., Inc., circa 1869. Title, imprint, and series statements from cover. Illustrations signed "JH 69" (i.e., Justin Howard, 1869?). Part of Aunt Friendly's...
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Published in New York by McLoughlin Bros., Inc., in 1888. Title, imprint, and series statement from cover. Caption title: Little Red Riding Hood. P. [2] and [3] of cover included in pagination. ...
From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. Published in Springfield, Mass., by McLoughlin Bros., Inc., circa 1920s. This version features a frog. Title and imprint from cover. Cover illustration is of a clothed frog, standing. ...
