From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man in a baseball uniform is up to bat, and he is sweating nervously. The man is labeled "Legislature" and holds a bat labeled "Individual batting average." Home plate is in...
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. Ronald Reagan sits on the edge of a desk with a "Manager" nameplate. Sports lockers are in the background. With Reagan are three suited-up white baseball players with "Civil...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Knudsen. Uncle Sam is dressed as a baseball player. He stands on the pitcher's mound at the International World Series nervously tossing a beachball-sized Earth up and down in his right...
From the AAEC Editorial Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. "Tip" O'Neill, dressed as a baseball player and labeled "Demos," stands on the pitcher's mound in an otherwise empty field. He watches as a baseball sails over his head toward the back...
From the AAEC Editorial Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Louisiana governor Dave Treen and former governor Edwin Edwards are dressed in baseball uniforms and stand facing each other on a baseball field. A large scoreboard is between them in...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ronald Reagan is dressed as a baseball player with a shirt labeled "Balanced budget team." He is looking upward at a baseball overhead, labeled, "Senate's tax cuts tied to...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. New Orleans mayor Ernest Morial and William Jefferson are dressed in baseball uniforms. Morial is speaking angrily to Jefferson, saying, "You're minor league!" Jefferson smiles...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Central Intelligence Agency director William J. Casey, dressed as a baseball player, is ducking balls labeled, "Questionable business deals" and "Libyan plot."
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A baseball player labeled, "UF" [United Fund?] is holding a giant baseball bat that reads, "$3,931,614 already brought in,"and he is standing at home plate that reads, "$550,386...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Jim Orton. A donkey and elephant are playing baseball, with the donkey pitching to the elephant. The elephant is distressed to see three balls coming at him, labeled "Watergate, Pardon,...
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.; Reese Harris Snell was born on December 20, 1924, in Meridian, Mississippi. He graduated from Meridian High School and joined the Army after graduation. Mr. Snell served overseas with the 85th Infantry Division and received a Bronze...
