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.; 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.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Leonid Brezhnev and another man stand looking at a large map of the Middle East. A large push pin with a hammer and sickle symbol on it is stuck into Syria, and above this is...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. The cartoon is an explosion with the word "Iran" in the center. The cartoon caption reads, "...From within."
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini sits outside a building with a cityscape in the background. He is holding a pot of aromatic glue, sniffing it, and is becoming woozy. The pot is...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini holds a sign up in the foreground, with "Power to the ayatollah" on it. He is looking with worry over his shoulder at a large crowd of women in...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher; A man approaches a member of the City Council during the "Police Brutality Hearings" with a note that reads, "The hostages should have stayed in Iran." A member of the City...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ayatollah Khomeini stands at the open door of a refrigerator that has frozen over. The freezer door has a large button labeled "Release hostages" and is also labeled "Defrost...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Four small men labeled "Allies" are sitting on top of an oil barrel underneath a giant poster of Jimmy Carter dressed as Uncle Sam. Carter is pointing his finger and saying, "I...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran, is next to a large globe on a stand. He is spinning it around. Above the globe is "A spot someplace." The cartoon caption reads, "All I want...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Ed Valtman. President Jimmy Carter, Vice President Walter Mondale, National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, and Secretary of State Cyrus Vance ride the horses of a carousel labeled, "U.S....
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Ed Valtman. President Jimmy Carter is standing with a man dressed in a long robe, looking at a tall pyramid of human skulls. A third man, the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, stands before the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. In the background is the top of a circus tent, with a flag that reads, "Iranian circus." In the foreground is a large cannon, out of which flies Abulhassan Banisadr. A sign in...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and another Iranian man sit on the floor in front of a wall covered with tally marks. The wall is labeled "395th day," and the second man holds a...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Jimmy Carter is holding a long list in one hand and an open sack in the other. The list has at the top, "Instructions for resolving hostage issue," then lines indicating other...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ayatollah Khomeini stands in front of a wall covered in vertical and diagonal tick marks and labeled, "Days in the lives of U.S. hostages." He holds a paper with four vertical...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Ed Valtman. Uncle Sam is shown standing tall as a giant, shaking his fist and boasting, "We're the most powerful nation in the world." At ground level, a small Ayatollah Khomeini has tied Uncle...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ayotollah Ruhollah Khomeini sits cross-legged on a floor with his back to a wall on which are many hash marks that mark the passage of days during the Iran Hostage Crisis. He...
