From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ernest Morial, dressed as a boxer, stands in the center of the ring. His arm is being held up high by the referee, who is shouting, "The winner and still the titleholder...."...
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...
cartoon by John Stampone; A hog is dressed in a man's suit and smokes a cigar. He stands at a table with an umbrella that sits atop a flat, grassy peak. The hog extends his hand toward a raggedly dressed man labeled "Unemployment" A sign posted...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ronald Reagan stands in an open elevator, the floor of which is labeled, "High interest rates." The elevator car is not at floor level, but halfway up to the next floor. Reagan...
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs. W. H. Jones Sr., Hattiesburg educator and primary influence in the establishment of the Eureka High School in 1921. W. H. Jones Elementary School was named in his honor.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Uncle Sam is driving a car labeled "U.S." at high speed down the unprotected road that is descending around a cliff. He passes a sign with "Caution" and a sharply curving arrow....
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. New Orleans Mayor Ernest Morial is trying to walk a high tightrope strung between two tall poles, with no net underneath. The poles are labeled "Expenditures" and "Revenues,"...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Vic Runtz. A man with a box on his head labeled "W. German election site" pushes Uncle Sam into a small circle labeled "Berlin" that is drawn on the ground or the floor. In the circle, Uncle...
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 Eldon Pletcher. In the foreground of the cartoon a large Lyndon Johnson, dressed as a cowboy, wears a big campaign button with the words, "You never had it so good." In the background, a woman...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ronald Reagan stands between two large charts, facing one (the smaller) and with his back to the other (the larger). The one he is turned away from is labeled "Study in red,"...
From the Thigpen (S.G.) Papers. Photograph of the interior of Thigpen Hardware Store during business hours. Photograph taken from high in the back of the Thigpen Hardware Store. Many people are gathered around various desks and counters.
From the Thigpen (S.G.) Papers. Photograph of the interior of Thigpen Hardware Store during business hours. Photograph taken from high in the back of the Thigpen Hardware Store. Many people are gathered around various desks and counters.
From the Thigpen (S.G.) Papers. Photograph of the interior of Thigpen Hardware Store during business hours. Photograph taken from high in the back of the Thigpen Hardware Store. Many people are gathered around various desks and counters.
From the Thigpen (S.G.) Papers. Photograph of the interior of Thigpen Hardware Store during business hours. Photograph taken from high in the back right of the Thigpen Hardware Store. Many people are gathered around the counter.
From the Thigpen (S.G.) Papers. Photograph of the interior of Thigpen Hardware Store during business hours. Photograph taken from high in the back right of the Thigpen Hardware Store. A little girl is standing in the aisle. Many people are in...
cartoon by Gene Basset; A man sits in a chair in a courtyard surrounded by a high wall. The man, labeled "Big land owners," is accompanied by an attractive woman and a mariachi band." The big land owner throws a bone toward the top of the wall,...
From the Major-Sowers Saw Mill Photographs Collection. Photograph of a storage shed piled high with lumber at the Major-Sowers Sawmill Company, Tallahala site in Perry County.
