Oral history.; Mr. Sank Powe was born in the Delta in Elizabeth, Mississippi, on April 20, 1942. Growing up, Mr. Powe often worked in the cotton fields for meager wages. Mr. Powe attended Mound Bayou High School, Jackson State University and Delta...
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...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Vic Runtz. Gerald Ford is walking to school, bundled up against cold winter weather, carrying his school books. The schoolhouse is in the background. Ford looks over his shoulder at the lamb...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Vic Runtz. Gerald Ford sits at a desk in an office and holds a newspaper with the headline, "Swift changes in leadership: Britain, France, Portugal, W. Germany." Richard Nixon has come through...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. The cartoon is drawn in three panels. The first panel shows Jimmy Carter smiling and laughing while saying, "I'm ahead." The second shows Walter Mondale saying, "I'm back." The...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Ed Valtman. President Gerald Ford stands beside a disheveled Uncle Sam, who is sitting in a chair. Ford's hands are behind his back and he is listening intently to Uncle Sam, who says, "I have...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Gerald Ford holds a pen in his hand. Behind him on the wall is a large poster with a man [Tip O'Neill?] dressed as Santa Claus holding a large sack over his shoulder. The sack...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford, each wearing boxing gloves and with a bandage on the face, are seen on a television screen. In the background of the television picture is a sign...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Gerald Ford stands beside a cab labeled, "Matching funds," and yells, "Overtake that man!" A car with a rear license plate labeled, "Reagan," is speeding past Ford.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Jimmy Carter stands on one side of a street labeled, "Campaign home stretch." Behind him is his shop with a sign on the roof labeled, "Best buy in peanuts." Across the street is...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by David Simpson. President Gerald Ford stands at the head of a huge, overweight elephant, holding a lead rope attached to the elephant. At the rear of the elephant, Ronald Reagan hangs from the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Gerald Ford and Henry Kissinger are in a bedroom, and Ford is packing a suitcase that is open on the bed. The case is labeled, "European-Near East trip." Kissinger's arms are...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Ed Valtman. Gerald Ford is dressed in a full Boy Scout uniform that includes shirt, kerchief, kerchief clasp, sash with badges, very short pants, socks, and shoes. He wears a backpack and gives...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Ed Valtman. President Gerald Ford and his partner are dancing smoothly in the background, and he is looking over his shoulder toward the dancers in the foreground. Ronald Reagan is shown...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Jerry Bittle. Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan, dressed in western wear, are standing near buildings that took like a town of the Old West. Each has a holster and pistol. Ford's has fired...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Collins. The numbers 1-9-7-5 are linked to each other and placed underground to form a convoluted tunnel. Lions labeled "Inflation" and "Unemployment" guard the entrance and exit. Five men...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Dennis Renault. An elephant is tied to a bed labeled "Watergate," one leg to each bedpost. Gerald Ford, dressed in robes of a priest, is kneeling beside the bed with hands folded in prayer....
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Richard Locher. A man in tattered clothes and labeled "New York City" is holding his hand out to Gerald Ford, who is walking past him on the street. The man says, "Hey buddy, can you spare a...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Clyde Wells. This cartoon is in three parts. In the first frame, Gerald Ford speaks from a podium which carries the seal of the Vice-President. Richard Nixon stands behind and below Ford....
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Arthur Henrikson. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and President Gerald Ford look over a fence while the Soviet Union's Leonid Brezhnev pushes a shopping cart full of missiles along a...