From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini and Iraq’s Saddam Hussein each hold a lit bomb and are prepared to throw it at the other man. They are hiding behind oil storage tanks labeled...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Stampone. A map shows Laos bordered by countries labeled Red China, North Vietnam, South Vietnam, Cambodia, and Thailand. Laos is drawn to resemble a small dog that is facing toward North...
From the AAEC Editorial Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A large bear with the hammer and sickle symbol on its chest growls angrily as, with one front leg, it swats at and strikes a commercial airliner [KAL 007]. The airplane is falling out...
From the McAtee (William "Bill" G.) Civil Rights Collection; This collection contains an original curriculum packet given out at the SNCC-NCC training site in Oxford, Ohio, for Freedom Summer workers going to Mississippi. It is accompanied by...
Transcribed copy of a report by the General Legislative Committee of Mississippi based on findings from an investigation of the occupation of the University of Mississippi in 1962 by the United States Department of Justice. Action was taken in...
Transcribed copy of an essay written by a Freedom School volunteer. Describes the locations of the Freedom Schools, subjects taught, enrollment, activities, as well as the students' concerns regarding discrimination. Also discusses the burdens of...
From the Ben-Ami (Rabbi David Z.) Papers. This report by the Mississippi Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights describes the committee's procedures and lists its members, but it focuses mainly on the allegations of...
cartoon by Eddie Germano; A middle-aged man stresses over the newpaper headline,"Plans for new schools are being drawn up." In the next frame, the man is literally hit with a "Tax rate increase." It is tied to a rock that jars the man. In the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by John Stampone. Lyndon Johnson stands listening to a man labeled "Congress." Johnson holds a piece of paper in one hand with the heading "State of the Union" and on it are the words,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Stampone. Uncle Sam kneels on hands and knees next to a genie's lamp labeled "All-volunteer force." From the spout of the lamp comes smoke which forms the words "Cost: billions $$." In one...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man is running away from ghosts labeled, "Vietnam...Inflation...Crime" and past a sign labeled, "The fabulous '70's." The sign shape includes a direction that is the same as...
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 Collins. An elephant labeled "Nixon doctrine" has encircled Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau with its trunk, and Trudeau has dropped the maple leaf he was holding. The elephant's...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A circus tent in the foreground is labeled "National politics." It has two flags flying above it which are labeled, "The greatest show on earth...'68." In the background is a...
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 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 Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; Appendix C explains the history and platform of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP), lists the executive committee members, and sets out a plan for the Congressional challenge. ...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. A donkey and an elephant sit on the doorstep of a house in front of a door labeled "Maine." Both are shivering due to conditions of snow and ice despite being dressed in winter...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by John Collins. Five of six panels show world leaders reading newspaper headlines of Lyndon Johnson's decision not to seek reelection in 1968. Canada's Lester B. Pearson says, "Those Americans!...
From the Miller (Michael J.) Civil Rights Collection; Mrs. Walker's autobiography was originally published in May of 1965 in The Movement, 1: (2)" In it, she describes her early life and employment history in Mississippi. She laments losing her...
