From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A long tractor trailer truck and a short cargo truck are travelling on a road that skirts the base of a cliff wall. The large truck is being driven by Ronald Reagan and is...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Clyde Wells. The earth is shown five times against a white background. Each schpere has the year above it, a flagpole, and a flag with lettering. The first is 1850, and the flag is labeled "1...
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...
cartoon by John J. Knudsen; A man dressed in a lab coat labeled "E.P.A." is holding a cip board in one hand and pointing at a line of mufflers connected to one another. The man is talking to another man in a suit. The mufflers are attached to a...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Richard Wallmeyer. A dove carrying an olive branch in its beak coughs as it flies past mushroom clouds of smoke labeled "Inflammatory rhetoric." The clouds have been generated from the bodies...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A nervous Ronald Reagan is being squeezed between a rock labeled "Budget deficit" and a military tank with the barrel of the gun pointed at his face. Reagan is using a handsaw...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Louisiana Governor Dave Treen stands on the edge of an unfinished bridge labeled, "La.'s capital improvement needs." The bridge extends no further than the river's edge. Treen...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Stampone. Richard Nixon has lassoed together a man labeled "Special interest politics" and three cylindrical characters with faces labeled "Air pollution; Water pollution; Pesticide...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Edwin Edwards and others dressed as blue collar workers are standing in an office with many desks and office workers. The sign above the desks reads, "La. Environmental...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Jon Kennedy. There are two frames in this cartoon. In the upper frame, labeled "The sixties," a man is frightened as he encounters a two-headed giant labeled "Communist aggression." The giant...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Ed Valtman. A hippopotamus with the long ears and brush tail of a donkey and labeled "94th Democratic Congress" stands in a large, round circus or zoo cage with its mouth wide open. It is...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ronald Reagan, dressed as a chef, is stirring a large pot on a hot stove. The pot is labeled "Reagan environmental policy." In the steam above the pot are the words, "Cry of the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Newly elected Louisiana governor Edwin Edwards (portrayed as a child in shirt, bow tie, short pants and top hat) stands in a doorway labeled "Entrance." Father Time, in a long...
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...
A collection of eight interviews with participants in the Mississippi civil rights movement. The people interviewed discuss how they came to participate in the civil rights movement, their various activities, including voter registration, Freedom...
Materials in this collection were donated by William M. Colmer: First accession-1970. Additional information online at: http://www.lib.usm.edu/legacy/archives/m024.htm
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A bird nest box mounted on top of a wooden post has the facade of the White House. A sign attached to the post reads, "Be kind to your ruffled-feathered friend." The cartoon...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on July 30, 2007 with Cheryl Ann Blain, an engineer and oceanographer at Stennis Space Center. Dr. Blain describes her personal struggles with Hurricane Katrina as well as many of the environmental and...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on May 8, 1996 with voter registration activist Jan Handke (born May 10, 1945). Ms. Handke was a part of the Freedom Summer Project, becoming occupied with voter registration in Vicksburg and working in the...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on November 4, 1993 with Joseph E. Wroten (born 1925). Mr. Wroten became famous as one of only two Mississippi House Representatives who voted in favor of allowing blacks to enroll at the University of Mississippi.
