From the AAEC Editorial Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. An elephant with a chain around its neck and a dog tag that reads "Jumbo" is labeled "$5.2 billlion general appropriations bill" across its back. Four men stand around Jumbo, and at...
From the AAEC Editorial Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A stylized man with a head shaped like the Louisiana Superdome holds one hand up to his head and yells "Ouch!" He is shown to be in pain by the lines circling his head and the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A large man with a cigar in his mouth sits behind a desk with a name plate labeled, "Real Estate Comm." Papers on the desk are labeled, “Falsified test scores" and "Licenses...
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 Eldon Pletcher. Two exterior walls of a hardware store are seen (looking straight on at the corner), each with a large plate glass window. Above the store is the banner, "La.'s Sunday closing...
cartoon by Jim Ivey; At the "Fla. Development Comm.," "Smolko" tries to hand the "Press" selected papers, but the "Press" is angered by the chained and locked "Public Records."
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).
Transcribed copy of a letter from Zoya Zeman to her father dated July 7, 1964, in which she discusses Ross Barnett and other Southern politicians and their influence on the racial attitudes of many southern whites. She goes on to say that people...
Photocopy of a one-page typed letter written by Joe Ellin to "Mom and Dad" on August 29, 1964. The letter addresses the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and the Democratic National Convention. Integration, Freedom School students, and libraries...
A handwritten list of Freedom Summer volunteers and staff in Hattiesburg written by Joe Ellin. The list gives the volunteers' religion, race, approximate age, and their work site. There are tally marks for the statistics on the lower right corner....
