Finding aid for manuscript collection. ; Minutes of the August 8, 1966 meeting of the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission and a report entitled "Report on Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission (1964-1967). For the full finding aid, see...
Finding aid for manuscript collection. ; Correspondence, photographs, news clippings, campaign materials, scrapbooks, manuscripts, copies of published books, videocassettes, plaques and other personal items. For the full finding aid, see...
Finding aid for manuscript collection. ; Correspondence, photographs, newspapers and clippings, office files, campaign materials and artifacts, including State Sovereignty Commission records. For the full finding aid, see...
cartoon by Arthur Henrikson; A fierce looking bull dog stands at the base of a tree and barks at a man who has climbed the tree. The tag on the dog's collar is labeled "Crime Commission" A man wearing a trench coat and a hat low over his eyes is...
cartoon by Arthur Henrikson; A beanstalk labeled "$462.5 million from punchboards,"legitimate business take-overs,"crime-politics tie-in," and "vice" grows in a backyard. A man labeled "organized crime" sunbathes under the beanstalk while drinking...
From the Johnston (Erle E., Jr.) Papers; Typewritten letter from William J. Simmons to Erle Johnston, Jr., dated November 18, 1987, in response to Johnston's request for information to be used in his book about Mississippi from 1953-1973. Topics...
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 Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Louisiana Governor Dave Treen is leading a horse labeled "New racing commission" along a race track. Behind Treen is a building with a pennant labeled "La. [Louisiana] racing." The...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Richard Wallmeyer. Richard Nixon is walking on a sidewalk past the corner of a building with an alley next to it. He stops suddenly as a man in the alley gets his attention with "Pssst..." The...
cartoon by Richard Wallmeyer; Two cans of pesticide are reading a newspaper that warns,"New Pesticide Warnings, U.S. Commission Cites Hazard To Plant Oxygen Production."
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Knudsen. A small boat with a flag labeled "National Commission on Violence" carries five people. The man driving the boat has steered it very close to an iceberg, the jagged tips of which...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A government building is shown in the lower half of the cartoon, with "Administration of justice is the foundation of liberty" across the pediment. "Charges of a conspiracy to...
From the Johnston (Erle E., Jr.) Papers; Typewritten letter from Erle Johnston, director of the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission, sent to editors of northern newspapers in 1969. Johnston discusses the current climate in the state as a...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man labeled Chehardy is using a pointer to indicate areas of a poster showing weather patterns. The top of the poster reads, "Jefferson's assessment climate," and the weather...
Photograph from the Johnston (Erle E., Jr.) Papers; Black-and-white photograph of Erle Johnston (left) accepting a framed certificate from Webb Burke (right), taken in 1968. Burke served as the director of the Mississippi State Sovereignty...
From the McCain (William D.) Pamphlet Collection; In this statement by J. Edgar Hoover to the National Commission on the Causes and Preventions of Violence, he notes the increase in violent crime in the U. S. and examines some of its origins. He...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. In the background of the cartoon is a sign post with a sign pointing and the words, "Labor-management commission of inquiry is upheld...Attack on constitutionality rejected by...
cartoon by Eddie Germano; A child representative of "our young" is pushed back by a jumping television. Out of the t.v. set come rays of "violence" and "bad examples." A quote from Dr. Milton Eisenhower, Chairman of Presidential Commission on...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. In the foreground is a large traffic signal with two lights, one labeled "Director's hiring and firing powers...Go" and the other "Director's hiring and firing powers...Stop."...
From the Earle E. Johnston Papers. Transcribed copy of a typewritten document entitled "Attitudes in Mississippi," written by Erle Johnston in December 1967. Johnston describes what he considers to be the prevailing attitudes in Mississippi in the...
