From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. On a map of Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union is shaped like a bear. Its mouth is open and beginning to eat Poland. A Soviet star is placed in the bear's forehead. The cartoon...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Gene Basset. A large group of men stand around an emaciated child that is crawling on its hands and knees. Three men in the front are labeled "U.S.; Britain; France." All the men are covering...
Oral history.; Discusses the prominence of the United Daughters of the Confederacy among Southern white women prior to World War II and the annual observances of Confederate holidays. Mentions other influential women's organizations in Mississippi.
From the Map Collection. A map of present day eastern United States. The top left has an enlarged view of the coast from Louisiana to the Florida panhandle. In addition to rivers, cities and settlements being identified, the map is littered with...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Richard Locher. Two rats are labeled "Violence" and "Terrorism." They are eating a globe of the Earth as if it were food. One is eating in the area of Eastern Europe/Soviet Union and the other...
Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on April 3, 1995 and June 8, 1995 with Constance Baker (born 1912). Mrs. Baker has spent her life working for civil rights and in teaching. She was involved in the Head Start program from its inception and...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ronald Reagan is standing at the edge of a landmass (United States), and the U.S. Capitol dome is seen behind him under a night sky with a moon (left side of the cartoon). At...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on July 18, 2006 with Odalee Fair. A resident of New Orleans, Ms. Fair discusses her experiences during and after Hurricane Katrina.
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.; Mr. King T. Evans was born on March 19, 1913 near Uniontown, Alabama, in Perry County. In 1925, Mr. Evans moved to Mississippi with his parents. His father was a mechanic and farmer. For a brief period, Mr. Evans attended the...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on November 6, 1979 with Dr. Arthur Lewis, emeritus professor of mathematics, emeritus professor of physics and astronomy, and emeritus Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Mississippi. Lewis...
Oral history.; Interviews conducted on October 3, 1994 and October 10, 1994 with Mrs. Jane Menefee Schutt (born 1913). Mrs. Schutt was appointed to the Mississippi Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and served four years, the...
Photograph taken at the Washington Monument in Washington D.C. The band was enroute with the "Know Mississippi Better" train through the eastern states and Canada August 12-31, 1926. A.F. Fugitt was the band director. Image featured in Dearly...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A U.S. Army general stands beside a large map of the Eastern United States and Cuba, and he is using a pointer to indicate the New York area. In his other hand, he holds a...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. A man wearing Middle Eastern clothing labeled, "Mid-East" holds a lit match to a cigar (drawn to resemble a stick of dynamite without a fuse) labeled, "Explosive nationalism."...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eddie Germano. A man wearing a "coolie" hat labeled "Hanoi" is standing on a globe of the earth, playing golf on a map of the United States. A hole flag labeled "Washington" is stuck into the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Reg Manning. A dead man covered from waist to calf by a sheet labeled "Watergate" lies on a hospital gurney. Four men in surgical garb and masks are trying to revive the man. A man labeled...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Knudsen. Uncle Sam is standing on the eastern coast of the United States facing west. Charles de Gaulle is standing in France. Uncle Sam flinches with pain at being hit on the head by a...
