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 John Stampone. Uncle Sam watches with dismay as George McGovern and Eugene McCarthy, both with feathered wings strapped to their shoulders, stand poised to jump off the edge of a high cliff...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Former Louisiana governor Edwin Edwards has some small patches of tar and a few feathers stuck to him. Walking away from him is a man labeled "Fed. grand jury tax-shelter...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eddie Germano. Richard Nixon looks excited at the large number of "telegrams and letters favorable to administration." He also has two feathers in his hat. The feathers are labeled, "Historic...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on June 26, 1979 with Mr. William J. Simmons at his office in Jackson, Mississippi. Simmons was born in 1916 in Utica, Mississippi. He attended Millsaps College and Mississippi College, graduating from the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by John Riedell. A police officer drags a drunken man by his coat collar toward the jail. The drunken man drops a bottle labeled "Old horse feathers" to the floor and says,"Shhay, Jedge, kin ah...
cartoon by Jack Jurden; A battered looking dove holds a withered olive branch in its beak. It has been completely plucked, with the exception of two broken, wispy feathers in its tail. Brown smoke curls upward from the dove's tail. Two bandages...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Knudsen. A bird labeled "Czechoslovakia" is trying to fly, but a man's hand has caught hold of the bird's tail feathers and is preventing flight. The sleeve of the man is labeled "USSR."...
Oral history.; Discusses her father, Erle Johnston. Describes his relations with Ross Barnett and his work with the State Sovereignty Commission, which she denies was ever a spy organization.
From the Belcher (Granville W. and Mary Caroline) Letters. Granville W. Belcher, a farmer from Martinsville, Henry County, Virginia, served in company F, 57th Virginia Infantry during the Civil War. Belcher writes to his wife, Mary Caroline, on...
